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Late session trades have been busting me in the nose and making me cry. Once again gains (small) were wiped out in the last half hour and for a substantial loss. Two things: 1. Dicking around in the middle of a range in which I had no business. Lately been pretty good at staying away but...

nljones5-- I appreciate your candor. I hope you stick with it because eventually you'll "get it" at some point. As for being better than you, I've probably been getting the better bounce, until today. So no, we are more equals than anything else. I scalp because it's easier (for me) to control...

Bar-owning drug dealers who surf.

1Reason-- Yes, idiotic mistakes like those are VERY aggravating at the time. Strangely enough, I didn't realize what I did until my P/L started going south in a hurry. Come to think about it, eyeballing my P/L seriously saved my ass today. I usually don't have it activated so I can only imagine...

Mr. Sub-- I agree on everything you said. Funny how trading is so connected to psychoanalysis. Only trouble with that, is the deeper you go, the more monsters one tends to run across. That's why I keep my closet in the bathroom. Looking forward to your journal postings... it's been a while A ...

Not once, not twice, but three times I hit the wrong order today. Out of focus is an understatement. I've become so used to hitting the ask to cover my shorts that when I went long today, I ended buying more contracts instead of closing my position. I usually cover at the first pullback so I...

Howzit hardcash-- Yes I realize that, but thanks for pointing it out. I'm kinda under the gun here and probably breaking every rule in the book about being under-financed, pressurized by trying to provide for my family, extremely tight timeline for making some decent money, and having no mentor...

Thanks DEF. Didn't mean to get all aggro and stuff. IB has been nothing but stellar for me otherwise. Thanks for the reply and info.

I know I said a wide stop but this is F**K'N ridiculous. Edit/ Back online

This is absolutely wonderful. I can't log on and the price keeps bumping up steadily. Outstanding. AAAAaaaaaaarrggh!!!

Woops, I just posted the same thing on my thread. I hope it gets resolved soon.

Hey janko-- It's now at $5413.00 / Started with 5000 even. Made it to 5900+ twice including earlier today, but can't seem to hold on to it. Just started trading 3 contracts intra-day but only allowed 1 overnight. I'm pretty comfortable with 3 so far but this overnighter is giving me the creeps...

This overnight position is starting to give me indigestion. I wish it (NQ) would s**t or get off the pot. Being as this is only my second overnighter, I don't know exactly what to expect. What's really bothering is I don't have the same amount of confidence in this trade as I did with my prior...

Very humbling for me today. After being up $300.00 + (net), I gave it all away plus some near the end of the day. Rats. Here's how it happened: Somewhere between the last half hour I had a feeling the market was gonna sell-off hard into the close so I waited for a coupla tests of the 970-968...

It's probably me but e-signal's charting program seems to have been designed for graduates with masters degree's in f***k'in reverse engineering and spacial epilepsis. I have tried about every charting program out there and this one takes the cake for most obnoxious. Local Knowledge was the...

Hi Boyd-- No, I don't know of any programs that do that. Looks like you're having great success trading the ES. Killer, hope some of that rubs off on me <G>. Magna-- thank you.

JPB, hardcash-- Thanks for the advice. Increased default contract size to 3 today. I'd like to scale in and out but not too comfortable with that yet. Couldn't help but reactivate the P/L display and boy does it move with only 3. Can't imagine the swings when holding over 10 cars, nevermind...

Sean-- I agree with what you're saying. However, scalping is the direction my trading is taking on by itself. Every time I apply a different technique I get burned... so I'm kinda letting it run in it's own course and let "it" evolve and mature without too much interference. I'm done trying...

Trying to get the groove back, so I was trading cautiously today. I tended to get a little loose and possibly lose some focus after some up days so maybe a little apprehension is a good thing??. Maybe, maybe not. Here's what is pickling my brain for the moment. Since I started this little...

Howzit Andy-- Overnight holds were always a part of my plan, I just never saw a set-up I liked 'till last week. I have to be quite convinced within myself to take an overnighter. Whether it pans out or not is not the issue. Believing in my set-up is. It just so happened to work out on this...