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@Bobiz. Hi again! I didn't see a comment or question.

First trade of the day update. Total bust. -$20. I got in at the low end of a range expecting a breakdown. I should have waited for a penetration and retest of the low of the range at 3368. We were still in an uptrend, as determined by the larger GREEN 250 sma We were still in an...

Morning Prep continued. This is my daily volume delta ES chart. A volume delta chart may be green even if the close was lower than the high (or red even if the close was higher than the low). It shows the buying or selling pressure just like the cumulative delta. The yellow hash tag is the...

Morning Prep continued The teal line is the Cumulative Delta graph. This tells me that the more aggressive traders are NOT aggressively buying, but are selling. And they like the 3360 ES area. The "aggression" is determined by the trader hitting the buy market (ask) or the sell market (bid)...

Morning prep continued: Pivots put on ES chart. I just watch the ES chart during the day. It is too much work for my lazy butt to put them on the NQ chart too. Even though they don't move in tandem, they do "rhyme," and the ES has 4x or more of the volume of the NQ, so it is the king of the...

Morning preparation: Here is the relevant news for today for Econoday with the USA filter on. https://global-premium.econoday.com/byweek.asp?cust=global-premium&cty=US&lid=0 Here are the pivots for the day, which I get for free with a free account from the Swing Trader page on...

First trade of Wednesday. Let's see how it goes. This is a 3 tick range bar line chart. Trade rationale: Near double top with yesterday's highs. Went up all night, and near the 7:30 am ET reversal time. We have lots of room before we get to the 50 SMA. In the 3rd wave up, and we often...

I got my statement tonight and had a net profit of $99 today. I took about 20 trades again. My average net gain was about 10 ticks on MNQ/MYM/M2k or $5.00.

Thanks for the vote of confidence. I hope I can keep it up. I haven't reached out to anyone and no one has come to me yet to trade for them. If you know of anyone, I'd be open to talk. Where would someone go to say "let me trade your money"? I have been funded by OneUp/MES more than once...

Hi @TommyR. Are you talking about my old journal? I think it is still there on ET. Even my older-older journal on that other website that starts with "F" and ends with ".io" Or maybe you are not talking about me at all? Why did you have a panic attack? I am a bit confused (more than...

WELL SAID. I will strike these words from my vocabulary: "If it had been an E-mini..."

Thanks for watching out for me. Of course I won't do it. Growing this thing safely is the whole point of this journal.

I work from home as a Realtor, mainly making offers for investors. Because of this (perhaps unfortunately) I am in front of my computer most of the time the market is open. And candidly, shutting down my platform is often difficult. I start looking at the market at about 7:30 am ET. So I...

The Asian session you mention has much lighter volume but it can be good to trade. Much lighter volume means that the prices can be pushed around much farther and faster if the big boys feel like doing that. IF you are considering trading this time of day, then (1) keep your positions small...

I officially crossed the $3000 mark today. Can I keep it? Can I continue to grow about 2% per day? This is just about $60 per day (for now). I can trade with up to 6 micros at a time on one position or spread around. $60 seems so small and so easy, but with only a few micros this...

I have about 300 total trades so far in 3 weeks, or about 20 per day or an average of about 5 trades per instrument per day (YM, NQ, ES, RTY), which fits the my statistical norm. Most of those were traded as singles, but now will start with 1 or 2 micros per trade. My stats are pretty...

Thanks. Your post made me think hard and helped me realize just how important the range/trend thing is. I need to try to formalize my definition on the topic.

When I was trading 4 micros, I generally put on 1 position on each of YM, NQ, ES, and RTY rather than trading 2 to 4 micros per trade on just one instrument. I like to spread the risk around and it also gives me more exit possibilities if one trade gets into profit before the others. But now...

Thanks so much for your great post. Your concerns are well founded, but there is a little more at play here. I am mostly happy with my trading. Approximately 75% of the time the market is NOT trending but is consolidating in new areas of value. In these ranges, I am selling highs and buying...