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I placed another trade that risks 2%. I think the goal posts are a little too wide. Perhaps I should have put more margin into it, then had narrower stops and limits. But it's okay, I'm just getting the procedures in place now.

Time doesn't matter. I'm nocturnal half the time anyway. Although I'd be willing to adjust my trading times to match market conditions. (For example, trade at times of day that usually see a certain amount of volatility or lack thereof)

Sounds like you're a scalper, right?

Since I've released some margin by selling the copper future... I will now enter a new trade with my new strategy in mind. (This strategy is a work in progress). I'm going to risk gaining/losing 2% of the account on each trade. I'm going to buy micro S&P futures MESM22. 2% is a movement of 58.5...

Does everyone agree with this?

With proper safeguards, I should make a profit even if I'm only right 51% of the time.

Yes I am attempting to swing trade (or "position trade"), but I'm finding the leverage makes it hard to do anything but day trade. I'm using IG Forex and Charles Schwab Futures.

What types of things does your watchlist consider? And how often does it change?

Yes

That's what I was trying to do. But I ended up practically picking the bottom of euraud and eurchf. I still think it could go down again. Major factors are ECB announcement and possible end to conflict. Perhaps EUR has already priced in a major year-long conflict.

I was long copper. I was reading articles that copper prices were actually expected to go down (or flat) in 2022 prior to the invasion. President of Ukraine already seems to be opening up to negotiating with Russia.

I had great success before this. I could have just set a stop at 10% loss (10% of margin invested), and not doubled up on repetitive trades. We'll see...

I have a problem of discerning between "trending" and "overbought/oversold"

Why long Euro? Why short Treasuries? On what timeframe?

Yes.

I cut my losses on the copper future. Bought at 4.9285, sold at 4.7335. Loss of $4,875. But this one I believe could go downhill real fast if you look at where the price was before the invasion 4.4505. If it returned to those levels, I would be down almost $12,000 with no logical reason to...

I'm going all or nothing on this one. I'll learn the lesson and change strategy next time. Last time this happened, I finally got tired of waiting and sold gasoline futures at a $20k loss... Three days later it started going up and I could have profited over $140,000 if I held it. Two bad days...

The sign of a good trader is not to trade? The "something else" is building houses for sale. Trading is a lot less stress, except when I lose my whole account that is.

I don't know why I didn't think of that.