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Bull shit -700 For some reason, today and yesterday I wasn't on the "right side" of the market. Today I should have been short and I would have been one and done around 1200. I don't know what I'm doing wrong. There were borderline setups this AM and I didn't take them FUCK ME

No trades yesterday. The market was in a tight range and moving very slowly up until I left (1030). After that I could have made money on both the short and long side. Today I made money, but I was not on the best side. I entered one long trade, and sold when I saw resistance, which was the...

So this past week was the first week I have had in a long time to watch the ES every day.. I am on leave so I am blaming that for my suck ass results. I have stayed up till 2 am most nights and slept in most days... Jobs don't mix well with friends/family u don't see but 1 or 2 times a year...

So instead of taking the two early trades that ran for 5 and 15 points I shorted the uptrend that started in the afternoon, twice Don't know how to stop doing this bullshit at the moment.... doing this shit accounts for all of my losses -$1300

Good day +900 This was on the long side... entry and exit were near bottom and high of the micro trend I luckily got.. Obv wrong side tho.. Daily trend for me I see is down.... knew had to be quick with long... big $$$$$ on the short side today... no planned trade on the short side.... of...

This month recap Trading an average of 8 days / month 134 contracts traded this year so far ES only

Last week or so... I had 3 down days in a row, which brought me back to my 8k starting balance for this year. Went over the trades and saw I was basically trading counter (major) trend, and could have easily posted gains those days had I been trading biased the opposite direction...

I frequently find myself thinking of a snowball analogy... it's a powerful one in my mind; +$600 for this week on one trade. Should have been around $3,000+ I wrote in my trading plan I must take 1 trade per day to help kill the past version of myself.

Although I am no legendary trader yet... I will offer you my thoughts; At first you say you trade 100% discretionary, but then you have indicators you use in some form and trade when you see relationships between them. I would urge you to stay as far away from the discretionary trading as...

Day after day... week after week...I watch the same thing happen over and over... AND OVER.... For some reason I didn't trade today or yesterday on the edge I've been modifying since last June and have now proven over a small amount of trades. I wish there were a brain surgeon that could...

Well, the curve has finally changed slopes .... it's taken 4 years! The only problem is the $ is insignificant. One of the big problems is missing days like yesterday (Friday). I also I cut some of my winners short as well as I haven't 100% defined the best exit. I scrapped the 4 points...

Part of the reason trading sucks part time is there are days you miss which will often make you a winner over time. Of course there are days that suck too (yesterday). Yesterday I didn't trade at all. The good trades were the day before. Of course I was working that day. Still consistently...

Thank you for the reminder about leverage. Leverage is a problem only when you don't understand gambling. I am sure I will always have enough money for the next X amount of trades according to my plan. At the moment, from real time trading exp, my average risk per trade is a few hundred...

run my numbers :cool:

I guess I'll explain... I stopped posting because when the owners of this site were dicking around with the new look, I lost a bunch of posts... therefore it's unreliable to put my thoughts here so I can review them. Amway, I don't think there is anything new for me to learn in trading from...

End of this month. I added a long term view to my trading at the beginning of this month in order to pinpoint best entry.

I might come back here once I'm consistently making money. For now I'm going 'under-ground.' I lost several posts on this apparently so forget trying to keep records on here for my personal use, I'll just keep them on my computer.

My first trade was in violation of my plan today although it was the right direction. I scratched it accordingly. I then took 3 short trades (2 at the same entry point - because I didn't hold on long enough the first time) that I scratched appropriately. One of them I didn't wait till the...

Doing this part time sucks... Same old thing... Scratched the first one, didn't hold onto the second one. Had military shit to do today..

Had to do this critical thinking class for work this AM from 0700-1100, so I got back around 1200. Took the one planned trade I saw. Probably exited a little prematurely, but around the time my plan says to stop trading (1400). I don't want to push it seeing as I missed most of the trading...