Busy most of day, but took 1 trade as a head and shoulder sell toward end of day and had a small loss. Looking over the day I see several formations that morphed into others. Could have been played in a very choppy and unprofitable manner with those 2 head and shoulder fake breakouts.
Did I...
I am only going to make one post ever, regarding Jack Hershey.
Mental illness expresses itself in many ways. Like a mud puddle, recognize it for what it is, and avoid it. There will always be mudpuddles.
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"By having a solid foundation of how price action works you can then apply this to the most reliable patterns and take them to the next level."
If I understand your above comment, the way this would play out is that when a common pattern forms, you wait for the last swing high...
That change of margin message I got seems to have gone away.
Makes me nervous to get any kind of flashing message that says "MARGIN", kind of the feeling I get when there is no more beer in the frig. 1 quick trade today +1 nq. Using real money now.
Thanks Piscuy, Looks like different approaches to trading based on price action result in many of the same trades, given similar timeframes. What do you base your exits on?
Never looked at NQ before, sure was clean this morning. I see margin is less than ES, but not clear on value. What is value of change from 2001.00 to 2002.00?
I've had to do a rethink of stops lately. As a beginner years ago, I would sometimes increase my stop in an attempt to let the market have time to see the wisdom of my entry. Got over that. Then reached a stage of letting stop sit till trade went right or hit it. Now, tend to exit trade...