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Thanks Jack, It is very motivating to have you address these issues. I spend many hours most weekends reading through older threads and find it is very easy to get sidetracked on topics that likely won't be useful to me in the near future. I find these "nail the basics" and "stay on COURSE"...

When trading a volume spike what clues do you look for to determine if a pullback is temporary (retrace) or if it is the high of the move and it is time to exit or reverse? For example, on bar 7 today I was pushed in at 93.00 and carried to 94.25. I entered a stop that took me out at 93.25...

Last week after I first posted my trades it helped me to be more conscious over the following days of targeting beginner trades. I seem to have lost that mindset over the weekend and did not trade well today. I did a lot of experimenting... my approach to almost every trade was different...

WWT ?!? Price spike bar 72 with low volume... I never saw it coming

I gave back some of my morning gains over bars 63-66 playing the BO. Trade L2 brought me in too soon and I should have washed. L3 was the rocket which worked but I got out a bit early. L4 was greedy/stupid as I chased more ticks at the end of the rocket and gave back a point. Details in...

I believe we are centering right now Bar 61...

I never looked at the indicators. When bar 3 traded in a narrow range for a few minutes I bracketed bar 2 and got filled on bar 3 at 1185. I did go in early but my thought was I could wash or reverse if necessary. Bar 4 PRV was high signaling a rocket so I put a cancel & reverse stop at the...

Great start to the day!!! Caught the bar 4 rocket for +3 ... my best ES trade yet. It is tempting to just annotate charts the rest of the day and go into the weekend on a postitive. bar 6...

I noticed this too when I first began using Camtasia. After I checked the "Disable display acceleration during capture" (see attached) my performance improved dramatically. Note when you use this setting it will blank the screen for a second when you begin and end recording.

Right or wrong, here is a large view of my 60m that shows how I see the ST, IT, LT. Thanks for posting the 4-stepper. I am going to give it a try -- I could fill volumes of binders with all of the stuff I want to improve.

Anthony, do you mind posting an example of how you are using this?

Anthony, it looks like you need to update your LT. I got 1.25 of the bar 3 rocket... should have had more but I manually trailed a stop and got stopped out with a lot of the move left. Also missed the big one on bar 15. I was slow to realize it was a rocket and then didn't want to get in...

Icarus, I thought this was excellent advice so I printed it and have it on my desk to read each morning before the market opens. I'm finding sitting on the sidelines tough but I made some progress with it today. In previous weeks I've had the attitude that I will try something out and wash...

BA, do you mind posting a chart? I'd like to make sure I'm seeing what you are seeing.

bar 43... we just established a point 3 on the long channel, we are up against the RTL of the ST short channel, these two form a pennant, and we are hovering over where the LT channel began the day... can't wait to see how this plays out. It's noon CST so I will step away from the computer...

bar 38 note IT has been adjusted to the low of the day; LT unadjusted

No, but I did not keep a trading log real time, so by the time I completed it at the end of day I felt debriefed. I have one of Jack's debrief charts (attached) but not sure where I got it from. It refers to yellow and green bars and refers to an Appendix C. Do you have a link to the...

OK, I got the kids to bed, now back to work. My trading log for the day took a while to put together as I have not been formally doing this drill (just rough hand-written notes through the day). It should be easier going forward. I did trade a beginner rocket but got in very late and held...

I made many trades today on ES for net -1.25 pts. I'm going to take a break then debrief and will post them later.

end of day charts