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No apologies necessary BCE. I enjoy your posting on the CL thread. You're more than welcome to post anything you want here. I've read NoDoji's journal twice, downloaded and studied many of the trades, and made a little book out of the wisdom from Bighog and others. NoDoji made extensive use...

Because I moved my stop too soon. My trade management needs more work, to say the least. At least I got the entry right.

Here's the Euro chart

Amazingly frustrating day. Looking back at CL, a baby could have traded that. Baby yes, moron no. 6E Trade #1 The 60 min chart was up big, but this was a valid setup. What I failed to remember at the time is a failed pullback usually means take the opposite trade, especially when your failed...

Nice analysis, thanks. What convinced you there would be a second move up? The strength of the first move? The extended bull flag?

No offence taken - I do have a tendency to buck the trend and do other stupid stuff. Fee free to point out anything you see as dumb. I won't complain. I've seen articles where people calculate the length of a run using different methods. Don't know how much of this stuff is real or just...

I knew it was a counter-trend trade, but after the most recent price action I thought a short trade was reasonable. I had 14 MFE and thought about locking in 10 ticks after price didn't approach the last pivot low like I was expecting, but decided to keep the trade at BE+2 (was expecting slip).

Here's the CL chart

Today was a wash. Only Mirus is getting richer. The 60 Min chart on the Euro was had some overlapping bars, but the trend was up. 6E Trade #1 Got a couple of big green bars, then a slight pullback. Entered above the doji. No real follow through. +1 tick. 6E Trade 32 Didn't like the...

Here's the Euro chart

CL Trade #1 CL was finding support at 97.50 but was showing weakness. Put sell stop at 97.49 and got 2 ticks of slip on the entry. Was looking for at least 97.20 but it found support at 97.26. Moved my stop to BE+10 to get something from the trade, but got 1 tick of slip. +9 ticks. Lots of...

Here's the 6E chart

One mistake in mechanics and one mistake in judgement contributed to my loss today. CL was still very jittery, so I played on sim for the morning. I was careful to make sure my stop was beyond the signal bar in most cases. Did pretty good, so I decided to play with real money. CL Trade #1...

Well, ... I do have a plan. Admittedly I'm a little gun-shy at times and don't always follow my rules or take every trade, but am working very hard on this. I'm trying to focus on 1 type of setup exclusively and nail it before adding others. For example, on the 6E today there was a very nice...

Here's the Euro chart

Got handed a lesson in stop survival. CL still on steroids. I played on sim at first. My first trade moved to BE+1 and I got 3 ticks of slip on the close! My next 2 sim trades netted me 50 ticks, so I decided to lock and load and play for real. CL Trade #1 After a massive red candle at...

Now you tell me...:eek:

The oil report should be a hoot!

Not much to report. In and out of the office today for personal stuff. Phone calls, pesky clients, etc. CL going crazy again, so I just watched. The late morning looked nice, but wasn't able to trade it. Took 1 trade on 6E that didn't work out. Out BE+1. Screwed up my video - for some...

Here's the Euro