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Sorry for the late post, messed up on the screenshot capture... Long 44 at the first announcement, 3 tick prof avg. Short 1141.50 on the first rebound of the 2nd announcement, +1.25 avg. Action too quick, screenshot attached ...

3tick avg gain long1143.50, quick +1 and +2, still one on. (Edit: b/e on the last car)

took 2tick loss. Short 1143.75 3tick stop

Long 1144.75 3 tick stop

+1235 In ES I had jury duty, so had to quit after the first 45 minutes. ES was popping, nervous market -- high one minute ATR. My last trade was a short at 10:19 eastern at 1163, The Last High Before The Historic Plunge, but I took a quick profit and had to boogie to my courtroom. I've...

Revised: +1212 for the day. After my workout, I took a few scalps on the breakdown from 1168.

+835 in ES Traded first 90 minutes. Opening read--Daily: up Hourly: up Intraday: down Today's issues: o Rocky start, then caught 1/2 of the dump at the announcement. o Lots of singles, no homeruns after that. o Quit after I made a boredom trade on a long consolidation. Day-by-day...

+828 in ES :) Traded first 2 hours. Opening read--Daily: up Hourly: up Intraday: triangle Today's issues: o 2 dumb trades in the opening minutes, down 275 off the bat. o Dug out of the hole, but got nervous at ~400 (psych limit). o Resisted the temptation to walk away, and did fine...

Thanks, but you're a master of the short :) Lately I've been trading mostly long. Yes, Gambler, wow. Thanks for showing how it's done...

+409 in ES. Traded first 2 hours. Opening read--Daily: up Hourly: up Intraday: up Today's issues: o One emotional trade, the only full stopout today. o After up 300 or so, chickened out on several good trades. o As usual, one trade had big target likelyhood & I cut it short...

+331 in ES Opening read--Daily: up Hourly: up Intraday: up Today's issues: o Kept shorting into support & hesitated on the 1 good short. o Zero % on shorts! Is it any wonder given the opening read ... o Forcing trades, dead market, quit after 90 minutes. Day-by-day March results...

+476 in ES Opening read--Daily: up Hourly: up Intraday: up Today's issues: o No errors today (yesterday was a mess) o Only traded first hour. Day-by-day March results attached.

+323 in ES Opening read--Daily: up Hourly: up Intraday: sideways Today's issues: o Up in the middle of the night I strolled by the charts and took a solid long entry (the afterhours bottom), but only put on 1/3 size. Set target to 4 points and went back to bed. It worked; next time...

+376 in ES Opening read--Daily: up Hourly: up Intraday: sideways Today's issues: o If I'd stuck to my preset targets/stops I'd have done much better :) Day-by-day March results attached.

+460 Opening read--Daily: up Hourly: up Intraday: down Today's issues: o Overslept and missed the beautiful long at the open, miffed. o Overtraded, bailed out of many iffy setups at +1 tick or b/e. o 80% longs, 20% shorts. long/short net: +730/-270. Duh! Day-by-day March...

+454 in ES +1600 this week +4300 this month Today's issues: o Only one really dumb trade. o Didn't work the strong downtrend -- 2/3 trades were longs. Day-by-day March results attached.

+435 in ES Today's issues: o Sick with a sore throat & cold, but still did ok. I have to focus so hard when trading that I almost forgot I was hurting. o After about 90 minutes, I finally needed to rest, so I missed the totally obvious double bottom at 12:45. Best signal of the day...

+392 in ES Today's issues: o Dumb trade at the open. When there's a really clear PA signal, then the first minute or two are ok to trade for me, but without that, it's just noise. o Hesitated on the best signal of the day. o Bailed out of several sound trades with 1 tick profit...

+70 in ES Trading in the pre-fomc doldrums. Was impatient and moved an entry limit order up for a quick fill, which resulted in a stopout to the tick on an otherwise winning trade. Family stuff, so traded the opening hour only for the day. Day-by-day March results attached.

+255 in ES Couldn't trade the golden first 90 minutes. In the PM session, after shorting the strong uptrend (doh!), I decided to look for longs (what a concept), and got out of the hole. Daily summary attached.