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Day #17 - I slept restlessly, and kept dreaming about being in a trade and almost to my profit target but unable to close it... seriously. Sounds kind of weird I know, but that is what happened. Obviously my brain is uncomfortable with this idea. So I went into trading today determined to...

@wrbtrader , first let me say thanks for your generosity in posting a reply. I completely agree that the unresolved emotional issues have to be fixed, and that is the purpose of this journal and my coaching. To become better, and to find the blind spots that I have inherited from my family...

Update for Tuesday and Wednesday of this week: I know of a few traders who endorse setting your stop loss and take profit, and then make no adjustments to it what so ever. I believe Futures71 does this, and I heard today a comment of Bob Iacinno saying "the clearest you will think in a trade...

Unbelievable.... I just got out of the session with my pysch coach, and read your words. Guess what my psych coach and I settled on, and I quote the words exactly that I wrote down... "You need to embrace and be comfortable with being wrong." Thanks for sharing.... amazing to get such a...

Day #16 - Started the day off with good entries, but then just couldn't hold them... I did two trades almost right away where I closed them with a 2 or 3 tick contribution only to see it go up to my 30 tick default take profit. I was super frustrated, and kept reminding myself that this is...

Weekend Review: Rested up, and had a fun weekend with family... and a very great party on Friday night! So now going through my weekend review and there are a few things that are becoming clear, and I will share my ideas on how to adjust accordingly. 1) Reviewing my trades from last week and...

Thanks @NoDoji you are correct that if I had not cut my winning trades so short, I would definitely be profitable... substantially so. Reviewing my trades from last week, there were many winners that I cut short prematurely. I am guessing on average a simply default take profit of 30 ticks...

Great stuff! Thanks for sharing your input. Going to look through it more on Sunday night.

End of week 3 - November 21st Interesting to look at the stats. Paid $1025 in commissions over three weeks. Avg win vs. avg loss is decent, so increasing my wins will really make a difference. Just need to get away from those melt down days where I tested my loss limit. One thought has been...

Day 15 - Interesting day. Started the day aware of a busy day ahead and Friday evening party at my house. Actually considered not to trade, but felt okay about trading today and timelines. Was looking at the market reasonably well, but then started to get a bias to be long when it was clearly...

Interesting you mention that... here is my daily goal I posted this morning at TopstepTrader... Yukoner[09:25 am] : Daily Goal - Realized early this morning that I have been operating from a principle of scarity, and so I have been greedy in my trading, and this is why I am closing out winners...

Day #14 - Woke up with a headache, and gave myself another couple hours of sleep. Seriously considered not trading at all today, because of that. Eased into the trading day, reminding myself to breathe and relax and just pay attention to what was happening in the market. Still felt a little...

@NoDoji Thanks for this, and taking the time to share it with me. I'll read it a few times for sure. (Big fan of Howell's work) Told my psych coach this week, that it feels like I am learning on a fast track. Key is to move forward and change old habits of behavior. I do know it takes time to...

Day #13 - Very interesting to just read @Puma 's points above as I went into today telling myself that I needed to be aware of emotional "arousal" and that it comes in many forms. I took my time even opening up the computer and here is the things I wanted to be monitoring and aware of: 1)...

Day #12 - This was a frustrating day for me. Looking back now I seemed to go into the day "fighting" rather than just going with the flow. I got into this headbutting with the market, rather than just calmly waiting for the right move. Then when I did catch a great trade, I would get worried...

Day #11 - Slept really well, and woke up feeling good. As per my psych coach I am cutting down on coffee intake in the morning and I am eating more. I went through my morning ritual, and reminded myself that my focus needed to be on trading "correctly" versus being on whether I am right or...

Day #10 - Slept well, and woke up and made a specific point to take care of my skin prior to trading. (Suffer from exzema), I reminded myself that I didn't have to trade today, and that I only wanted to trade if it was the correct thing to do. It was an interesting morning in crude, I saw two...

Day #9 - Been a busy day, and only now late evening am I able to type about what was a very frustrating day. Had a few minor clues that I wasn't a 100%... tired, restless, skin bothering me... but I was very stoked on trading. I had planned the night before for this day, and was pretty sure...

That is a very good point about the brain being used to that and feeling scared and unsure of itself. Your point of it is not fear of loss, but fear of change.... hmmmm, now that is something I need to mull over as it resonates somewhat. Thanks for sharing! For myself, I have to get to the...

Day #8 - Slept well after a great day surfing. Woke up, and actually considered not trading. Just asked myself, do I need to be trading, or maybe I should just take a break. Then asked myself what was I worried about, I just needed to focus on trading well. Reminded myself to just "trade...