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8;00 long 1220 tgt.. 1221 stop 1219.25 out 8:05 +1 What I"m tempted to do... since I'm ahead today is place an order with a fairlytight stop, or bring it up to BE if that works, and let it ride for as long as it goes... just cking in every 15 min or so. Thinking the market might just...

7:56 Out -.75

Silly me... need more poker face on a winning day YTD was loosing and put on dancing shoes? Controlled losses? Today winning and ignore it? Who said trading is the opposite of some of the rest of life?? I pretended the market would go up again repeating yesterday... so in haze of...

different opps! 7:00 long 1215 tgt 1218 stop 1214 But I thought it was market opening! And volume would carry it up... ekkk! 7:13 moving my target to 1216.25 7:14 out +1.25

opps running behind posting here went for second leg down... as that's what haappened yesterday in similar patterns 6:42-6:47 Short 1216.5 Tgt 1224.5 stop 1215.25 Out +2

Hey, first experince of slippage Traded Short at the 6:30 economic report Monitor says it took zero seconds! Sell stop set at 1224.5 Tgt set at 1220.5 protective stop at 1225.25 They got me in at 1223.5 Out at 1219.25 +4.25 pts

I am doubtless ignorant or worse... as a beginer. I put the 'OOb' in no-OO-ob, it seems to me. For myself I want to trade real money to have that experince. 'Trade live small and trade often' is something I've heard as beginning advice. So I'm trying it for a week or month or whatever...

This may be all I need to post: I see just the few trade I know. Figuring out the better trades that were possible... might vary a lot with different people, and even myself over time.

1 win, 2 losses for the day First trade made 1 point. 2nd lost .75 points. 3rd lost 1.5 points. My stop was 1217.00 on the last one. 33% win rate, Avg win/Ave loss = .74 (commissions included in the avg loss) I'm also tracking 'errors'... which are all so often entry errors, etc...

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Hummmm. let me put some spaces in the laughing indicator: Celebrate the losses.... < laughing > ...controlled losses are cool. I tried to post 3 attachments... could only do one at a time. Put the other 2 in following posts. Just wanted to actually see the set up's as they...

Celebrate the controlled losses.... <laughing>

10:01 Out - 1.5 pts well, have some work to do! I suspect will focus on some of those shorter term plays in my reading today.

9:21 Long 1218.50 Tgt 1219.75 Stop 1217.50 Not the R:R ratio I aim for, but this is more of a swing play... a little more wiggle room. Tgt/stop based on fibs. Might bring my stop up if looks like reversing with volume. You know, it seemed odd to me at first why so many were...

8:42 buy 1216.25 tgt 1217.25 stop 1215.50 8:47 -.75 pts Looked like it was forming a triangle and might BO up... Thanks Diversions.... I'm begining to look at those, and at the CL I think for the month of Dec I'll stick with the ES... because I've just been paper trading and...

7:57 Long ES 1210.5 tgt 1211.5 ... oh! hit it already! stop was 1210

Thanks Jasinhabca! I'll just have to see how it goes....

"You'll lose your shirt," she said. She being my Dr while I was getting my yearly physical. "I just lost my pants in front of you" I thought, but didn't say out loud... (latex glove, bend over, the procedure of the moment), "so I think I can handle losing my shirt." While she was doing the...

There we go Should I call my real journal thread... Hootie's place? Hootie's blow by blow? [a nod to the blowfish] Hootie's journy to EaSy money and back again? [a nod to Tolkien] or abandon all hope, ye who enter here! [a nod to Dante] ??! AHhhhhh!