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Been reviewing and simming. It's going pretty well. ============== One thing I've been trying to understand is the interaction of Me with the execution of my plan. My goal has been to get to a point where, with little effort, I see the signal, enter and strictly manage the trade with no...

Just traded the first 2 1/2 hours in CL today. I'm going to keep with that schedule. After I commute to office, which gives me a break, i'll take a look at trading last 60-90 minutes if markets are moving and depending on how my focus is. I'm slowly doing more and more things correctly. Seeing...

Thanks ZBE. I think for a long time I was thinking I needed to log more screen time. Keep putting the hours in. Now I'm realizing that less is likely more as you and Handle have suggested. I'm starting to understand some of the triggers for my discipline issues and certainly fatigue is one of...

You're right and no I made some mistakes on trade management and a couple forced trades. Re- focusing on process

Yesterday was up 28 ticks and finished up just a couple. Didn't know I was up that amount till EOD. Today +36 in first couple hours then finished negative. Had a + 25 day last week that also ended up only + a few. I need to use more common sense and should use a profit range that I can hit and...

Make sense to me. One thing I realized recently is my micro -analysis of pullbacks is causing me confusion resulting in missed trades or early exits. Pullbacks can be messy, I believe. If I keep it simple (look at the overall structure and a couple other things I watch for) it does become...

'like' his other one instead. oh wait that doesn't sound right.:eek:

Finished the week trading well. Not a lot of ticks, 18, but was patient, no trades in chop, valid trades , managed properly. Felt relaxed in in control of myself and clearer on what I was doing. shit, finally. more review of beliefs and charts this weekend

R.E.V.A. ! :D:D Muy impresionante, el Diablo. Yo necesito google translate solamente para un pocos palabras pero necesito estudiar mucho mas con el CD's en mi auto. Y si' es bueno para el cerebro :)

way OT.. Taking a break cause it was time and CL in a range. I'm practicing some Spanish using an online app. Do this on my kindle too. Today it congratulates me and tells me I'm 1% fluent in Spanish. Solamente uno ! Ay caramba !

The obvious signals are great except when they're so obvious I think 'well that's too easy that can't work' I pass and of course they work. Not so much of that anymore.

Congrats on a great week !! Have a great weekend. jas

Thanks Hooti. I haven't seen that post before. It's encouraging. The 7 years at least makes me feel like i'm not a total loser. ;) I'm reviewing a lot of things including my basic Theory of Markets. Trying to simplify (throw out) some of my beliefs on PA that are not fitting with reality.

The little shift is getting my ego out of my trading for one. Being overly analytical is getting me too wrapped up trying to be right or trying not to be wrong. Working on that and trying to be more patient so I'm only taking very clear entries. Less analysis while trading.

That's good. I've had that same thought before and agree that if you can't teach it you don't understand it yourself. There have been times I've written out questions to quiz myself on. I've thought about how I would teach a friend (don't become a trader :D) or how I would teach myself if I...

thanks Hooti. I've been looking at that. What can I focus on price- wise and me- wise that simplifies things. Starting to strip away a couple things or change how I look at them. I do over analyze. I keep reminding myself it's not about predicting. Probabilities over a series of trades managed...

Yeah, that's possible. Me being in the middle of it doesn't give me that perspective to say just step away. Maybe if I stick with it longer i'll reach that required pain threshold.:eek: (I'm kidding of course)

I've done manual back testing and lots of forward testing. That is, using stats from my actual trade entries and tracking my actual PnL to what it should have been per my trade management rules. My actual performance usually under performed my plan management due to my discipline issues. This...

I think I'm slowly beginning to see from my review that the problem is my discipline. The discretion part of my trading is not the big issue I thought it was. The mistakes I'm making are things I've discussed in my plan to avoid. Lack of discipline is leading to lack of confidence and then back...

Sounds great Slugar ! Glad it's coming together for you ! jas