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A couple of very good entries so far and one near miss great entry in NQ, but not very good management while in the trade today. It's a continual effort to have the market tell me when to get out of a trade instead of my own opinions!

Eh, covered that short at 1093.25 for +4 ticks. *edit* - Yikes, talk about a mismanaged exit!

Short ES now @ 1094.25

Tried to get NQ Long at 1772 but it moved way too quickly to get filled.

Covered at 1090.50 for -4 ticks

Alright, first trade of the morning here. L ES @ 1091.50

Yeah, I agree that it was definitely a difficult day to stay focused the whole time. I cut out early too and unfortunately the best signal of the day came at 3:30 for a great long trade that I could have just held into the close. It would have been good for at least 3 pts. Looking back over my...

Yup, these are the days that can just grind you down. For me it's all about just keeping myself in the game on a day like today and moving on to more opportunities tomorrow. That chart you posted definitely looks nicer to me. You just don't see very many days that look like today where we...

I think I'm only going to stick around another 45 minutes here. Trying to stay focused while ES bounces in a 2pt range over the past hour is no easy task. I never have high hopes coming into Mondays so I just chalk up a day like today as the cost of doing business. These are the kinds of...

Oh yeah, I would definitely agree that it's been trending up the entire day. My problem with today though is that there doesn't seem to be much volume or conviction in the uptrend. We make a high by a couple ticks and then retrace a point or two and repeat that over and over. I don't mind at all...

I'm going to try to put up my blotter from this morning. As anyone can see it has basically been a break-even morning, which is not surprising at all looking back at the action. Much of my trading is batting 1-2 pt winners back and forth until a bigger trade unfolds. Anyway, nothing very...

A very slow start to the day for me here. There has really been zero volatility to trade today. I have found that typically Monday is the worst day for my trading, not entirely sure why, but it's always been that way. I will take trades both with the larger trend and against the trend, my...

Just to recap the day for me, it was definitely a challenge. It was almost like a tale of two different days. Before noon the market was actually moving pretty well and I made more trades and had more size on than normal but in the afternoon not many trades came on my radar at all...

Hey man, thanks for the good words. The rest of the day wasn't quite as good as those but it was still a profitable day none the less. I've found that my entries are normally very good and it's really been a constant effort to work on the exits. I've looked at trading the spy's and qqqq's...

No problem, thanks for the link. I'll take a look at it this weekend and figure it out.

Hi John, that link didn't work when I clicked on it. What was it to?

Cover NQ short @1725.75 at 2:55 +3pts

Short some NQ here S NQ 1728.75 @ 2:40

Covered that ES long at 1065.50 at 1:15pm +2 pts

I like that idea. I'll go figure out how to do the screen capture this weekend and start doing that on Monday.