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No trades today. The markets started off boring, then changed to insane, then back to boring.

Only 2 trades today. Trade #1 Traded during the new. -6 ticks Trade #2 Tried to jump onboard the uptrend. +1 tick.

Here's the Russel chart

The Euro was range bound and whippy all morning and I just watched it for 3 hours. 6E Trade #1 Finally started to make some HL's while approaching the top of the trading range. The 08:54 bar formed a triple bottom green candle and I entered a limit order on the close. Missed it, but kept the...

First sim trade in CL was a winner. Decided to go live and lost the next 3 trades, 27 ticks total, including lots of slip. Only the last trade was questionable, as I think the setups on the first 2 were fine. While I was focusing on the tick-by-tick action of CL, I missed some softballs in...

Mismanagement. I was trying to lock in 20 and that's where it landed. Still not holding for a target.

On the advice of a better trader, I decided to first trade in sim until I lost a trade, then switch to live. Only did 3 trades: 2 scratches and a small winner. Then I had to get my taxes done. Missed the afternoon fireworks. Will try again tomorrow.

Here's the 6E chart

Didn't take all my setups and managed to cherry pick the bad ones. Second guessed myself on the best move of the day. I felt the EMA was too flat, and there was a double bottom only 10 ticks away at 104.81 that held the 07:40 bar support. Dumb. CL Trade #1 Lots of overlapping bars, so I...

Thanks NoDoji. Still feel like I'm in kindergarden. Getting better though. Biggest hurdle to overcome, I think, is fear. Can't quite put my finger on it: fear of losing, fear of being wrong, fear of -fill in the blank-. The only thing I can think of is to keep plugging away.

Missed the best trade of the day because I felt there was too much time left in the 5 min bar. Totally misread it and missed a 100 tick run with what would have been 5 ticks of heat. Only 1 trade for BE+1. Sad. <iframe title="YouTube video player" width="640" height="390"...

Hi LF, Thanks for the encouragement. The video thing has helped, I think, and I'm still working out ways to make it more useful. I'm a little miffed at myself for deleting it today. My normal setup is to use the DOM. I usually have the 6E DOM and chart on my right monitor, and my left...

Only 1 trade today. Lots of personal errands to run, and feeling a little tired from the weekend. Screwed up and hit the wrong key and deleted my recording. Jeez. Trade #1 CL had a big drop at the pit open and I managed to grab a small piece of it. +30 ticks.

Glad you like the presentation. If you see something I'm doing wrong, please point it out. And I'm doing fine, dude, thanks for asking. The embedding thing was weird. All the help files I found said it was easy - just click the 'embed' button and copy the code into your page. Trouble is...

Here's the 6 E chart

CL Trade #1 I watched the ledge build on the 5 min chart. The last 2 bars (05:00 and 5:05) were nice and small. However, I'm trying to only trading pullbacks for the moment. After the 05:10 surge bar I looked to enter long. Entered off the 1 min chart, but was stopped out BE+1. CL Trade #2...

Could only trade until 9am today. Saw one trade that I decided to take in sim at the last minute that was a winner. Wish I knew why I did that. If anyone knows how to embed a video in the page, please let me know. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAj4xxF5a2Q My one real trade was a...

Thanks BCE. I'm working hard at it. Sometimes it feels like I'm playing whack-a-mole though.

You know ... I'm really not sure. Maybe. Maybe I'm afraid to lose. Or afraid to be wrong. I've lost a couple of thousand over the past several months, and I'm not really bothered by it. I've been moving my stop to BE+1 after 8 ticks. What I'm looking for is the trade to move in my favor...

Roger - will give that a go. Thanks.