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yesterday's statement: + $763.76 JP

The day started with a lot of doing nothing. NQ went into cardiac arrest for 1,5 hours. Good patience today while waiting for the correct setup. Just one trade short when it broke out of the mush area. It found support on a previous resistance area. Normally I would have remained short but...

yesterday's result: + $694.14 no trading today so the summary of the week is + $1496.70 (~+8.5%) I will try to trade at least 3 days next week. JP

Not sure what to say. I think today I broke every rule there is :( (bad entry management, bad (no) signals, trading too large.... ) In fact I hesitated to post the trades but I did it anyway because otherwise there's no point in keeping a journal I guess. But please do not use this as an example...

yesterday's result: + $118.8

Yep we did saw about that indeed, lol. :rolleyes:

Result will be (slightly) positive however I'm not happy today. 5 trades in total. I mismanaged the entry on the first two trades. Guess what, they resulted in a full stop out. Maybe there's a lesson there... The only one smiling probably is my broker happily accepting commissions. I know it's...

yesterday's result: $ +683.76 (700 minus costs) I was hoping to start this thread with at least a full week of trading. But due to some change in plans, I will not be able to trade later today.

Thx. If you're referring to the fact that the futures data is missing on the chart when the US markets are closed: that's done on purpose. I found my system to be working better when I leave that out. Also I don't like trading outside of the US open hours. It's usually slow and there are...

ok, let's kick off. Current account balance is: €13,970.00 + $1,815.32 Just one trade today. Went long shortly after open. Sold half after closing the gap. Since I was still bullish, let the other half open. A bit of bad luck with the stop on the second half.

Hi there, To quickly introduce myself and as to why I open this thread: I traded forex and a bit of futures for a couple of years but with only (very) moderate succes. After that period I stopped trading completely for around 1,5 years. Just watching charts like once every two weeks. But I did...

I have to disagree strongly here (about it sucking big time :)) And this for the following reasons: a) I think you missed the subtle sense of humour the OP put in the title of his journal. b) Although this thread is only a couple of posts long, you obviously didn't read them all (see...

This looks like the start of someting that could become an interesting thread. :) The area after your first "bastard" bar coincided for me as the previous HOD support. Price coiled up on that and took off. (just sharing my view on that) I was wondering if there is any specific reason...

Nice recommended TA entries and stop loss that you've posted here on the chart at the bottom of the article. However I couldn't help to notice that the recommendations you make over there are somewhat different than the entries you post over here. You're loading your boat already at this...

I rely heavily on indicators for my trading. TL's are of secondary importance in my system. But having said that, it never ceases to amaze me how different methods can give the same entries. Nice thread btw. JP

It's actually neither of the two. (But since I don't want you to lose any sleep over it :D I'll send you a PM about it. I guess it's only fair since you show your stuff too...) I very strongly agree however on the low risk entry (I believe my stop was 6 ticks), which is key in cutting your...

It depends a bit on what TF you look at it but I suppose you're right if you look at the exact ticks on the 1min chart. However I use other (TA) tools to try and find the tops / bottoms of swings and for me it coincides really nicely here with prev LOD bounce. JP

Fully agree. Even R/S levels that really the whole world can see like previous Low Of Day work fine. My first trade for today. I think I'll go back to bed:D (there's an offset of 2 hours vs broker statement)

If I understand it correctly, you just locked in a 240 point loss. That's rather unusual as most people like to lock in a profit and not a loss. But maybe this is part of your money management that I don't quite get. Perhaps you could enlighten us on this ? JP