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CL lost its mind today. The T&S and DOM were going crazy. Played on paper for awhile and watched. Nearly every trade I would have taken would have been a full stop or BE. The chart was well behaved, but a much bigger stop was required to trade my setups. Things quieted down a little. I...

There were definitely some trades where a wider stop and not moving to BE would have worked very nicely. I'm still moving to BE after 8 ticks. Not working in this environment.

I've been playing on paper, and practically every trade I would have taken would have been either a full stop or b/e - assuming no slip, which I doubt. Even the 1 minute bars don't show the craziness! CL seems to have lost its mind today.

Friday was a crazy day - no time to post and barely time to trade. In and out of the office, phone calls, etc. This is Friday's log. Trade #1 Looking to get in on the run up. Watching for an entry on the 1 min chart. Was waiting for the bars to consolidate. When long on the second push and...

I don't get in until 4:45 or so, and it takes me about 15 minutes to get make coffee and get settled. Looking at that early morning time from 3 - 5 am PST, I think you'd be trading with yourself. The volume bars are too small to even see!!

Traded brains for guts today. Was determined to trade the signals. A lesson learned is to trade ALL the signals and not cherry pick. After 2 losers in 6E, I passed on a winning trade. Then traded another loser. 6E Trade #1 Saw this pullback just after booting up. Hadn't done any pre-game...

Debated on posting an entry today. For most of the day, I was a like a dear in the headlights. There were several trades I tried to put on, but the entry was so conservative none of them were filled. There were several very nice entries, especially in 6E that I simply didn't take. I seemed to be...

Funny! I do follow it, but I've found sometimes when my concentration level is high, I look up and an hour has past and there's 5 new pages on the thread. I did take 1 sim trade late morning. I had to leave the office, but I liked the setup. I put the trade on and left for 45 minutes. came...

One trade in CL today. Out even (BE+1 with 1 tick slip).

I meant after that 06:40 surge bar. After that, price pulled back very nicely. tryin'... Had to leave the office at 10:30 for a couple of hours. The best thing about this profession is that tomorrow is a new day and a fresh start!

Watched CL trade sideways for awhile, waiting for a break of a 85.81 or 85.13 Trade #1 Got a break of the resistance area, then a pullback to the EMA. The 5 min chart still looked whippy, so I waited for another push higher. The 06:40 candle was a big, 40 tick that shot up without stopping...

Another obvious clue I failed to catch in real time.

Once again, thank you very much for this great, detailed explanation on using multiple time frames!!! Like most things in life, it's so clear when methodically explained. It's funny (not in a ha ha way) that the number of variables one needs to be aware of really isn't that great, and...

Here's the 6E Chart

6E Trade #1 Trend was down and the first pullback I saw was the 05:09 bar. I didn't take that because it was just above the Feb 9th LOD, plus it was an inside bar (don't like to take trades from them). Price broke that support, and the next leg down broke the Feb 8 LOD. When price failed to...

Thanks. I see what she was getting at (not a trade for me, but love to see how she thinks) and was curious on how she would have entered. Too bad there was only 20 ticks of profit.:)

Would you enter 1 tick above the 08:03 PST bar at 86.85?

Lots of overlapping bars in CL today. I took 2 trades, one for an 8 tick stop and the other BE+1 with a 1 ticks slip, so I got nothing. Trade #1 My pre-market homework lead me to watch for a range bound market between 88.11 - 85.88. I saw the resistance at 87.75 and watched as the market...

The CL chart

Today was a wash. There was only 1 trade I really screwed up on - I got greedy and missed it. Still learning how to read price. Funny how clear everything is after it's over. There were a couple of lower time frame entries on CL that I passed on. At this point in my short career, I'd rather...