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Hey guys, Thanks for the replies... I actually had an ok day on Friday, but I finished early because I had really 2 bone head stupid trades in a row so I decided to call it quits. In regards to strategies, I think what I am doing has an edge...its the whole implementation of that seems...

LF, Im going to assume you haven't read thru the majority of my journal...There is absolutely no way I could sit in front of the computer and limit myself to 1 trade. I pretty much had only a couple trades on the ES when I was still live and I was going crazy waiting for set-ups to develop...

Ya I hear what ur saying...Im not that torn up about it if I don't have a great entry or I get in towards a middle leg or something. Thats kinda how it was on Wednesday...but between that and watching winners that I feel are really good trades go to B/E, its a little much. Im totally...

Well Im midday...and Im dealing a huge jolt of negativity in my confidence that really goes back to Tuesday. Just feeling really dejected like I can't do anything right at the moment. My trading isn't terrible and the results are terrible either but... Its funny how fast your confidence...

Today was a huge confidence crusher...I had most of my trades go for real small gains or breakevens. It was one of those 2 mouse gets the cheese days for me. All of these little double tops that formed on the way down, wound up stopping me out of all the good trades that eventuallly really...

Man, so close to having a huge day...but still wound up being a pretty good day. I didn't post yesterday, wasn't very exciting. For yesterday, I have a hard time trading slow moving slightly trending markets. I think the ability to see the PA better will come with time but Im being pretty...

Kinda a Ho-Hum day...I was busy off and on and in/out of the house all morning doing other stuff so my attention wasn't completely focused on my computer. Oh, I guess I should sum up yesterday since I forgot to do that...Yesterday, was fairly uneventful. I was actually pretty happy with...

Today was a total joke for me. It should've been an absolute great day but I wasn't taking trading seriously and totally unfocused. I got a new phone yesterday and I was playing a stupid video game on it this morning. Had a couple great breakout trades all set-up, got distracted and realized...

It was a tough day early on, lots of chop. I got chopped out twice in the morning...the only thing I did wrong was that on one of the trades I had way to big a stop in place (17 ticks) and of course I got stopped out...Just to big for that little of movement and all that chop. The...

Okay so back to the journal. This week Im going to really try and eliminating some of my B/E trades. I went through most of B/E trades over the past couple weeks more than 90% of them the price continued against me after the B/E stop hit. So that's telling me, Im not taking profits off the...

So, obviously, I've been lagging a bit on my journal. I have pretty much ditched the ES all together. I've found that Im pretty mentally burnt out at the NYMEX close and need a break but I usually wind up just walking away for the rest of the day. The other issue Im running into is fighting...

On the DT/DB chart, i had the entry as a stop order 1 tick below that channel, it got filled then immediately reversed back (sorry u may not be able to see it b/c of the red timeline showing where I entered) Ya I may start posting hte CL charts instead...they get a bit messy and cluttered but...

No trades today...I was totally engulfed with the CL and then took the rest of the day off to do personal stuff. I think what's probably going to start happening is Im just going to focus on the CL and then trade the ES after the NYMEX closes...if at all. My concentration is much better...

Again, another hard day in terms of the action...the past couple days and even week or so the breakout trades haven't been going so well...either the risk:reward isn't there, they reverse hard, whatever...Im not sure if its a product of the current market or what Im seeing or what. Im having a...

wow, today was a really tough day in terms of chop. The morning bounce I had huge trouble reading...and the same for the bounce up in the afternoon. Tried looking at 5m bars and longer time frames and really couldnt get a feel. In the afternoon, I quit trading around after the NYMEX closed b/c I...

What do you mean...cheat? Anything specific within this journal or my trading? I think I like the idea that its not forgiving...

So an interesting day for me. I had a huge day over in the CL. Got 82 ticks and I made 2 HUGE mistakes and 1 medium sized one...all total the mistakes cost me about 50 ticks...so would've been a gigantic (is gigantic bigger than huge?) day had I been more disiplined. My attention wasn't...

No trades today..... Quick Nurse! Paddles! She's flat lining!

Where did you get the 76.75 number from...or is that just based around where price stalled out? Ok, again for arguements sake..(if you haven't figured it out yet, I like to take the other side of the debate to understand what is going on :)) lets say I did exactly the same on the trade...

Ya thats what I did...maybe more appropriate to set at 1179.50? Jack, where would you have set the target? NoDoji, The issue Im having is letting my winners run and if I even want to do that. Im still working how my nerves handle retraces/retest of support. And as you say, re-enter a...