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Lot's of opportunities today, but I only scratched out lunch money. I let the 05:30 news keep me out of a great long trade, and after my first trade I fell asleep at the switch and missed a great short. There were 2 shorts I had limit orders in for that didn't get filled because I was being too...

Mixed feelings about today. My rules kept me out of the morning chop and news cycle, but they also kept me out of a winning trade. After the oil report, the 07:40 and 07:45 bars formed LH's and LL's with a close under the EMA, but the overlap was too much for me, so I passed on the short...

I normally wait a bar for confirmation (not sure why I didn't today), and had I done that on Trade 3, I would have seen it as a long. Even so, that second lower high had me thinking the long side was done for awhile. I need to keep an open mind about these things. How soon after you reach 20...

Try this ... wake up tomorrow and say, 'Today I'm going to Disneyland and it's going to cost me $100 to play(or some number you're comfortable losing). It's $100 to walk in the door (at least!) and look around. Then set your ATM stop at some fraction of that (half or third). That will give...

Yes, plotting manually. I'll try using that feature tomorrow if I remember. I've found that sometimes the text gets messy if the trades are too close together.

Today was very choppy with no clear, lasting trends. Managed to escape with minor burns. I didn't take the first short at 05:15 because I just got to the office and noticed it with only a minute or two to make up my mind. Since I don't like being rushed, I passed on that winner. Trade #1...

Yes, fixed target of 25 ticks. I'm trying to learn 1 thing at a time. Step 1: find and enter profitable trades. Once I build a little confidence and can think on my feet better, I intend do exactly what you're suggesting. At least I took the training wheels off by eliminating the trailing...

Made a couple of non-fatal mistakes today. Otherwise, a decent day. I decided to drop the auto trail stop, but kept the BE +1 move after 8 ticks. I changed my target back to 25 ticks. The overnight session was starting to give back some of its gains, so I wasn't sure which way things were...

Taking today off. Good luck to everyone.

How did you get 81.89? I don't see it. I'll try to grow a pair tonight, and if I do any trading tomorrow, I'll (gulp) hold on for awhile longer.

Thanks FD, normally I do try to trade a little longer, at least on Tuesday's and Thursday's. MWF I usually take off at 10:30 to go to the gym for a couple of hours. I haven't yet cleared my plate of all distractions, and occasionally I have some pesky client stuff to do. Since the morning...

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Tried something a little different today. I modified my auto trailing stop to just go to +10 when I have 20 ticks, then the goal was to manage the stop bar by bar. I also changed my target from 25 ticks to 35 ticks, and monitored the 1 minute chart. On the 1 minute chart I adjusted the grid...

I try to target 25 ticks, but I think you're right - the auto trail strategy is keeping me from target in all but the strongest runs. Will do things differently tomorrow.

Thanks again for the tips. My goal would be to handle my stops manually, but I really hate seeing 20 ticks evaporate to BE+1. The cost for that smaller trade is missing on bigger moves. Need more experience...

Not much to report today. I was having some bad internet issues early this morning. I run NT and TOS side by side, and both were crapping out on me so I knew the problem was somewhere in my office. Trade #1 Price moving sideways under the EMA with the recent morning trend down. This was...

Dude ... I'm no roll model. If something I do doesn't make any sense to you, there's probably a good reason for it. Maybe it was a dumb trade. I'm doing the best I can with what I've got. What I am sure of is that I feel this. Trading is what I want to do. I'm sure it'll be many, many more...

It's Brook's father!!!

Thanks for that NT tip, Pacaso! That did help. I'm constantly trying to figure out how big a bar is to judge my risk. I was reading somewhere about the logic of having a fixed stop. That author believed that the stop should depend on the situation, that there's nothing special about a...

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