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Stopped out. Thought this was a failed bounce off the 20 ema. Guess I was wrong.

Sim short 74.29 .20 target, .15 stop

My wife is a school nurse in a Somali neighborhood. This action could deprive the schools of new students and put her out of work - then I'd actually have to make real money at this.

Stopped out.

Strange, the bar high is 74.60 and I should have been stopped out, but for some reason the trade is still on.

Sim short 74.45 .20 target, .15 stop

Two trades today, but thought about several more. Trade #1 05:15 - Got a sell signal and went short at 73.18 for a 25 tick target. Was a little concerned about shorting this because of the strong upward momentum bars, but the trend had been clearly down. I did like the pseudo shooting star 2...

That was a typo. I went and looked at my blotter, and I actually went in at 73.78. Thanks for catching that.

Out 73.63

sim short 73.76 .15 target, .15 stop

Out 72.93. Had moved stop to BE+2 after 15 ticks, and missed getting stopped out by 1 tick on the 05:30 bar.

sim short 73.18, .15 stop, .25 target The trend is clearly down and I'm getting a sell signal, but what I don't like about this trade is the recent upward momentum of price.

I've got the 20 EMA on there because I hope to learn how price behaves around that line, plus I want it as a visual reference for the trend. The up and down arrows are remnants of an old indicator that I used to use and I suppose serve no purpose anymore, but does give me a warm fuzzy when I see...

Today I started to implement some of the new rules, with mixed results. I only took one trade today, and in hindsight, I can see it was more lucky than clever. Luck is a good thing, but not a valid strategy. The market started off with a huge positive surge at 05:30 on news, and I don't...

Absolutely!! I'm expecting to over trade in sim. In fact, I need to in order to generate statistics that will help me mold money management and trade rules when I'm comfortable enough to go live again.

One day a few months ago I lost 3 trades in a row and hit my daily loss limit. Nothing went right. I switched over to paper and hit the next 3 trades for way more than I lost, and I was so pissed I switched back to real money to get my money back and immediately lost even more. It was textbook...

2B = double bottom?

I'm testing a scalp trade. The price was way below the 5 min chart and there was a stochastic cross under the 20 line. I didn't want to wait for the line to come above the 20 line for confirmation. Turns out it never did.

Out 73.89

Thanks. I'm looking for a new platform. I'll check it out.