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Matcha, Sometimes its hard to get across what im thinking in a public journal...especially being an engineer type, we aren't the best at communicating :) I understand that what I want isn't going to happen tomorrow...its more of "keep an eye on the prize" type comment. Everything I've...

Kinda a 50/50 day...Had my first "fat finger", accidental button push, whatever you want to call it. I've been thinking about it for awhile...the button the buy/sell at market is right below the place to select the chart time frame. Knew it was a matter of time before I accidentally hit the...

Not really sure what to say about today. Had to crap trades and was lucky to come out at B/E. Im not sure if it was a case of just not thinking things through or not being fully focused or what. But totally worthless...Im a little frustrated with myself because I felt like I was making better...

Uhhhh....Awkward (In a high pitch voice) :D

What a frustrating end of the day...Had a great trade in the morning followed by a missed trade in the afternoon. I was gone by 7:40 for about 3 hours and then I was going to miss like the last 10 mins or so of the trading day b/c I had to hop on a plane. So I didn't have real high...

I really don't want to define myself as a this or a that...which may be a mistake given that I am just learning, but I'd rather take set-ups as they come and not focus on only one set-up at a time then moving on once that set-up is mastered...again, I know I "should" just stick to trend...

I had a small laugh at how eerily similar my notes are to your notes on the chart. Pretty interesting, hopefully that is a good thing. I think Im going to start putting more notes on my charts, similar to you..IE the head/shoulders pattern or whatever. By the way, Im an engineer as well...

Pretty much a soonzer for me today. Only 1 trade. I had something pop up at 7:45 this morning and I was gone till a little after 10:00 so missed the long slow move up to the HOD. Then had some other stuff to deal with around 12:35...so not involved in that other swing down. In hindsight, Im...

Hey Guys, Thanks for the comments...what you are all writing makes perfect sense. Its funny, even though Im keeping a journal, there are still those, "what was I thinking moments"...go thru the journal to try and figure it out but nothing... So much to think about as a newbie :)...

Boli, Its funny you mention that...I was just going over it. In hindsight, I really don't know what I was thinking now that Im looking at everything, maybe thinking short...not sure. Im no market profile expert, but I definitely take a look...and its funny, I was even looking at it in the...

Hmm just rereading what I wrote about the 2nd trade. I think I made the wrong move, probably would've been more appropriate to go long on the second bottom bounce at around 1111.50 and have a tight stop of like 1110.25-.50 ...but again, this is why I want to start taking some of these slower...

Matcha, Just got caught up with your journal...Awesome to see you trading live! Even more awesome that you bounced back today after a not so good start to live trading! It looks like you kept your emotions in check last week which was impressive (I'm still working on this :) ) Glad to...

Kind of a weird day for me...I had a Dr's appt in the morning and a lunch meeting in the afternoon so I wanted to try and get some trades in...Not too sure if I forced it a bit or would've done it the same. Overall not too bad...give myself a B with an asterisk. Trade 1: 8:43- Short...

Not true...with openvpn you can get up 256 bit encryption through various standards. Even if you only have 128 bit encryption, if you passkey is long/strong enough, even if your ISP logged your data it would take them YEARS to figure it out. Unless you are doing something big time illegal or...

Well, finally got some money back into my account after ToS screwed me up a bit this week. But on the postive side, I've taken some time to organize my funds a bit..think Im finally going to consolidate some accounts after all this happened. Anyway, on to the trading...finally got at least...

Errr...more ToS issues...for some reason, it transfer money out of my account on a repeat basis instead of a one time basis...I was planning on moving some money around...so now, I can't trade nor can I transfer it to IB...The money is stuck in cyberspace somewhere for the next day or two...

bigsnack, On days like today especially is why I like looking at the higher tick and/or timeframe charts...less noise...food for thought :)

So no trades today...woke up a bit late today and I had a really hard time focusing during the initial market open. In hindsight, i wished I had been more alert to the break down through 1096.00 level at around 6:55...but wasn't really focused or paying a whole lot of attention...making coffee...

BigSnack, Ya thats why I wish I had taken the trade...you really had two shots to get in this trade and I didn't take either one of them...that's why Im kicking myself. In my mind, the first go around would've been good for 2 pts or so and the 2nd go around good for 2-4 points...