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Thanks!

Anyone have any news from 2:30 am EST? YM spiked over 200 pts in 5 minutes.

Details on how you deviated? I realize trades were not in the plan. I write down type of entry and what conditions allowed it and type of exit. Also I place a combined order with a market or limit and a stop.

Very true,I'm in the same boat...if I had let every trade run the account would be much larger. But unfortunately the obsession with win rate cuts off some big winners. Because some of the decent size winners would have turned into stop outs without trailing a stop after x gain.

2/5/18 ES HOD 2771,LOD 2616.26,OPEN 2758.75,CLOSE 2682.00 I didn't go back further.

Very true.Moving your stop will work a large % of the time if you are in a range bound market and your moving the stop to slightly outside the range if it was inside the range before.The problem arises when the breakout was real and the market trends ..then you lose big.

RTY having issues compared to NQ

The last few times the market has risen from the open on big gap downs.Maybe again but I trust it with the Daily now.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-10/u-s-is-said-poised-to-publish-200-billion-china-tariff-list

The question is ..Is this gap real or will it collapse ?

Anyone know if there was some after hours news that caused this? Tia

For an example check out NQ today @ 4:00 after GOOG earnings

nuts,can't imagine a year ago that there would be 11.5 pt 5 min ES candles

Hit ES hard,down 41pts

I'm sitting today out.This open not in my bag of tricks.

This reminds me of those scaling in threads awhile back. I would put the full position on all at once and scale out not in. Can't see how to be more aggressive without taking more risk,unless taking a larger position and decreasing the width of the stop which is going to kill the win rate.

40 years,that's scary!

If you are playing with the markets money you could possibly increase position size. I would not take a second trade after the 1st entry.(assuming the trade is in the same direction).The first trade is going to have the better entry.If a 2nd signal appears I would stay in the 1st trade.

Sounds like it would be good for spreads.

In my experience not taking trades is usually the result of trading too large a position for your account size, financial problems in life ,personal distractions while trading or some type of problem in life that is bothering you.A journal is key.