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Here are my first two entries today off a 200 tick chart. Rejection of mean followed by lower high and then break of SL followed by higher low. My entries were good but the speed of the pullback on the first took a fair amount of my profit. Any advice for slow fingers?

Buyers attempted to push price up through the range but sellers saw this a good price to get involved. Price moved lower until our first (1) break away bar which pushed through the previous swing low. Anyone looking for a reversal is disappointed on the next bar or two and price continues...

This one confuses me - I've been staring at this for 10 minutes. I see that each of the first 3 levels is associated with a close and a swing high. The second level and third level seem to be the last close before the swing low was taken out. The 1st level seems to just be a line across...

Sorry - this is going to get ugly - I'm going to pretend I was part of the conversation and reply as they come. The first bar moves opens on it's high and closes on it's low. It is also pushing through the swing L to it's left. The next three bars make downward progress. The second red...

I think he is referring to therapy?

I find taking magnesium helps me sleep more deeply. Where I am they sell something called "Natural Calm" which is magnesium citrate.

I think the experience of attainment of self-realization or whatever you want to label it is beyond words. I also believe the Buddha didn't want people chasing an experience - hard to be in the moment when you are thinking about the "goal"; even harder when the moment is the goal.

There are flotation tanks. There is biofeedback. There is therapy. I'm not an expert on meditation. I would suggest that there are many different versions of the same thing. If you were to choose a method I would go with the one that most naturally appeals to you. Some people respond...

I had seen the second one and watched the first. I am not surprised by the results. I think the buddhist monk who Oprah interviews nails it. You have this little crying baby that is your core self. You need to handle this baby gently. No matter how much it acts out you reassure it that you...

A very good read - thanks for that. It isn't life or death when we are by ourselves but body language, staying with your emotions until they subside - this is part of getting good. You need awareness that resides somewhere inside your body. I get a sense of tightening in the chest and a...

Here is the 5000 tick chart. We are in an uptrend. The top of the channel is around 3545. The mean is at 3477. We have been ranging from 3513 to 3504 with a test or yesterday's high. The play is to watch the range and see which way price exits. I would not be surprised by a deeper...

It can be as easy as putting a pencil in your mouth. You should watch the TED talk linked in the second post. If you have two minutes you can physiologically change your behavior - at least for a short while.

Anyone who feels annoyed with the recent off-topic non-sense please use the complain feature liberally. I don't understand how people that have no interested in drawing a straight line are starting to outnumber those who are interested. Fluke - I will admit your writing is similar to Db's...

Next time you say "I'm waiting for price to clear X level" I'm going to hold you to it :) Also - we never made a swing high so we can't look for longs so even following mechanical SLA it just means fan the SL line and take the next entry. That should get you in at 10:06 and quickly have you...

What I saw this morning was a range -> fakeout breakout -> small leg up with tons of back-filling and a rejection of Friday's high. We then have our DL break, a LH and a LL. We also had a big overnight move up behind us. All of this indicates weakness to me. The move stalls a little at 85...

I have no idea. I know I couldn't. I've also never met someone who has meditated for any length of time who said it was a waste. My guess is some people start further along or get less squished along the way and don't need meditation but even they would accelerate their self-realization with...

Here is the move down this morning. Assuming we entered at 3490 then I have circled potential areas to get out. In the first circle we have a spike bar that breaks our SL but leaves the previous swing intact. The second bar goes a little higher before removing most of the first bar's gain...

The foundation of my approach to this is a meditation practice. I supplement this with a morning routine, a healthy diet and regular exercise. They are different approaches but I've needed both - maybe I started more messed up than most. One of the first books I ever read (on poker) was Zen...

I couldn't agree more but some people will refuse to do that sort of work. Perhaps you can link to the Zen thread as it's hard to find these days and I never bookmarked it.

As Db is saying - people are scratching based off of what amounts to nothing. Just a little retrace or a bounce. What we should be discussing IMO is when we know a trade is cooked. What are valid reasons for exiting a trade based on price action?