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Not too stress free today. Started off fine then made a mistake exiting too soon. Held on to the irritation as it went to target. That threw me off and I should have taken a break but didn't. Blah, blah, blah.. We know how this ends. So, regrets today. Didn't look at PnL I felt frustrated...

No, so far not looking at PnL is not really impacting me. The set ups were my favorite PB entries and not moving my target requires less thinking. Combined that's easy and stress free.

Thanks Chuck. look forward to having you around. jas

Solid day of focus and patience. Executed very well. Had a few small losses to start day but all where valid trades. Then a nice trend developed and my trade went to target (15 , didn't move it). Got a PB then another entry to target, another PB and another target. That's big for me. Didn't...

Traded well. Narrow range and choppy for good part of day which I avoided pretty well. Valid trades just not working today. Not looking at PnL per Hooti's suggestion but it was a loss today.

Hooti, That's a great post. Thank you. Love the LBR clip. I had a similar experience when I finally really understood my set ups & triggers. My trading improved quite a bit after that. I'll try that exercise. Not tracking the PnL is interesting. Right now I generally don't look at it till...

I've been thinking about this. If there's an internal issue it's my pushing to make more ticks each week rather than coming in and focusing on trading the plan regardless of results. Is there some other issue or belief causing a problem ? At this point I don't think so. And I do and have often...

Thanks traders, I really appreciate every comment. I'll try to respond more this weekend. My eyes are beat. Still trying to get my 10k hours of screen time, Handle :) "The show me state" OK that one hurt a little. Kick a poor guy when he's down ;) . But I can't disagree. You're the best RN...

Will do ND, thanks. Yeah, the talking out price action I do at times and it definitely helps. So, back to doing that more. It's still amazing to me how some days I can trade with perfect patience and focus and other days completely disregard context or I trade Hope. The market has a way of...

Lost focus and didn't realize it. CL looked kind of range bound straight off so I focused on NQ today. Overall I feel confident in what I'm doing which then I find leads to complacency on my part. I ignore context i should not be missing. Talking out price action helps. Need to do that. Over...

Slow day. 2 trades in NQ before and just after CL inventory report. CL not a lot of opportunities for my method. Good patience avoiding trading but still had a few losers. Last half hour CL had a nice move. I missed an entry by a few seconds then waited for a proper PB entry. Last trade exited...

No major mistakes. Minor mistake ? A bad price read on one entry. Not concerned about that really. It happens. More focused on my discipline which was fine today. Boring day, even the winners. Not moving my targets. Yea. Unfortunately the later session trades were not working so gave back...

1 big mistake/ forced trade near EOD. Prior to that trades just not working. Not getting follow through. Action seemed very slow so will have to watch for that tomorrow too. -16 on last trade which put me at -50 ticks today. -34 I'm OK with. -50 not too pleased. I expect if the market...

oh, great :eek:

Trying to. Thanks, Handle Agreed. I think I reached my final point of disgust yesterday. Thanks, RN.

Thanks Handle. :)

Yesterday pretty much beat out of me the thought of raising my targets. I knew today I would strictly follow the plan. Resigning myself to only 15 ticks I felt a sense of , IDK, loss of control, loss of hope for a big win ? Well, anyway. I can adjust later . For now it's just creating...

LOL through the tears ;)

Thanks Sam, I appreciate the encouragement. Will do.

Not a great day. My self talk through out the day is one that reminds me to stay calm, patient and to let go of frustration. It has been developed through practice and self awareness and has helped my results significantly. But I also need a self-talk routine that says "WTF, stop doing that !!"...