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Blowingup2012, What's the significance of your post of a daily chart?

How did you guys do today? I kinda wish I would have kept trading. Great volatility.

Recap for 4-19-12 +37 ticks <iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/NYOeUWsVdPY" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

....and..... I'm done for the day with that trade. Biggest win of the year. Video to follow.

I just noticed the video is really hard to see price bars! Sorry about that. If someone wants, I'll redo the video. If you maxamize the screen it shows up more. Here's a pic of all the trades today, but with more clear price bars. Sorry!

I thought I would share something more today. Here's a look at my trading stats spreadsheet I made. Monitoring performance is crucial for me. A combination of a trade journal that I write in as I trade, a trade log- (this spreadsheet) with analytics, and a daily and weekly trade review...

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Done for the day. Just finished the video, will post when it uploads.

Considering fading this move above the top of the range at 804ish Edit: 10:08 What a beaut that one was.

Yes, stops are widened. As of now I'm just at breakeven for the day, 5 trades in. Yes, I'm looking at such small moves, most always there is opportunity on both sides. Nothing special here. Home PC and cable. Oh, I do have a couple monitors. Today I think I'll say "rupert" took all the...

I think it's trivial, but I'll try to start using I just to make the picky picky people here happy. I'm sharing everything I have with y'all, and this is what gets noticed? My use of the word we or I ? I live in AL, maybe it's a cultural thing. I just noticed when I got off the phone a...

A quick edit for 4-17-12: Actually made +16 ticks today, rather than the +9.5 I thought before. Feels like finding a $5 in my jacket pocket from last winter.

For those of you trading index futures short-term, I would love to know what your win% is on average (what it fluctuates between over any x number of trades (I use 20). Also, would love to know what win:loss ratio you're achieving on average again (maybe it fluctuates as mine does. I posted...

Yes, I was.

+9.5 ticks today, could have been much better. <iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/ejwUPsFpiIs" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

Here's my MAE (maximum adverse excursion) chart. Does anyone see anything in this they could comment on? I'm very new to the concept.

Thanks for the kind words. Yes, 1-2 ticks would be way too tight for me, I'm going to place the stops 1-2 ticks OUTSIDE the entry signal candle, so it'll be more like 7-8 ticks on avg. "Earlier entry didn't really affect the probabilities, yet, and once it moves in my favor, I pyramid...

toucan, There is no objective methodology for varying contracts or adding to trades. Purely discretionary, and based on how I'm "feeling" about the current trade. More times than not it's how pissed of I'm getting for the market not going in my favor immediately. (Terrible I know). I have...

My focus for tomorrow will be on a disciplined stop-loss placement. Each and every stop-loss will be placed a tick or two outside the entry signal candle.

Thanks for the feedback Zr1Trader, I may be successful trading with mental stops, but who knows, maybe I would be much more successful if I attached an OSO stop order with every entry. (I might just cancel it though!) It's just me trading by myself. The "we" is probably me, the good...