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Just logged back in, after stepping away from this journal, for l guess well over a year. First, let me say how grateful I am to all who helped me in 2014 and 2015... you know who you are, but the two who I must highlight are @Handle123 and @Redneck . Lastly, there was a person who took the...

Day #6 - Woke up this morning and decided to try something different. So I jogged up the river from my house, then did some exercise by a waterfall, relaxed for a bit... then walked back to my place to start the trading day. Thought maybe the exercise might relax me a bit going into the...

Day #5 - Once again, today I still had to face that fear of being wrong. Today was an amazing day for me to trade. I could see the setups so clearly. Saw the EIA number disappoint, and knew exactly what to do. But could I do it? It was like there was this huge internal struggle to enter the...

Day#4 - Went into the day, again, reminding myself to try and only trade from a calm place... and to make sure to identify market state throughout the day. Today was a tough day for me trading wise. I must have missed five or more entries by only 1 tick, or even traded at my price but no...

Just Just read this. Thanks Redneck. Good stuff in there! I am becoming person #3... I can feel the change starting to happen.

Yes! Yes! YES!!

Day #3 - Took my time this morning to get into trading. Was rested, relaxed, and felt great after a really solid weekend. Went into trading asking myself "What market state are we in?" and reminding myself to keep asking that throughout the day. Overall I was identifying the trade setups quite...

Day #2 - (Writing this on Saturday morning) Yesterday was a day that I had to deal with fear. I was fearful about losses, about not doing everything correctly, and I actually waited quite a while before I put a trade on. Once I was trading, again I had to battle with that fear, and so I had to...

Day #1 - Did my homework the night before in case I might trade today, then circumstance dictated that I probably wouldn't have the time to trade. However, later on my morning did work out that I had the available time. So I was paying attention to crude after the EIA report, and I thought "Do...

Thanks @Redneck .... this is the first day since I posted that update that I've logged into my journal here. Pretty crazy the last couple of weeks, but at least my business partner is much better... and this week he started doing half days. So I am looking to get back into the swing of trading...

Agreed RN. I was only trying to update the journal. Thanks!

Update: - It has been a nutz week. My business partner had complications on his surgery, that now has led to him being away even more.... what was routine and back in 10 days, is now going onto week 5 and looking like end of May before he will be healed up enough to be in the office. In the...

@Redneck without a doubt I am not pissed at you.... on the contrary super grateful. I am updating here now.

Day #12 - Late night here, as my lovely girlfriend threw a surprise party for me tonight. Very cool times, with some close friends out on the deck, and having a lot of fun and good drinks.... however, I still need to journal, so sneaking away. Today was an interesting day. I did stick with my...

Day #11 - (Running late, and had a very busy and tiring day... so only now just able to write clearly and in a quiet place.) I slept well, and actually slept in (rare thing), however I broke my routine and checked the market as it was about 10 minutes past open. Holy smokes, crude has had a...

Day #10 - Had a good rest, and slept well... and passed up a healthy distraction for the sake of trading this morning. Reminded myself I was committed to this.... this is what I wanted to do. Then went and made tea, as I am not drinking coffee before trading. Today wasn't my type of day...

Day #9 - Went to bed a bit later than normal, but slept well, and actually slept in about 30 mins. Was briefly tempted to stop my regular routine, and just get trading... but for what? So stuck with the plan. However, one thing I did differently today... a simple thing (and I will try it...

Day #8 - Slept well and ready for the day. Started off fine... then that darn chop. Once I figured out it was chop, I adjusted accordingly, but in the meantime would get the signal to get in.... only to get stopped out. Just no follow through. By the time CL started to open up, I was down...

HAHAHAHAHAHA o_O:eek:

So interesting you say this... I asked myself something very similar this morning. Why am I doing this, and more importantly going forward.... What am I going to do differently? It's like there is a Jeckyl Hyde brain.... old brain wants to revert back to comfortable... new brain sees what to...