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Trust the process. JFDI. What process? What 'it'? Reviewed Gears journal, which is excellent. However, I am not writing out every technical move as he is doing (and he is doing more than just that). Hope I've internalized the technicals. Noticing them is part of the active/inactive...

I was a bit slow grasping that we were not having a trending day, but instead a ranging day. The shift from the sluggishness after the open to a zippy move down and then back up was enough to have me waiting and watching. 1. I took a long off the 50% retrace about 5 min after the open. Stayed...

5 min chart added for clarity

And here is a 1min chart, same main lines and channels as yesterday, updated for the ON. Took a long pre-open via retrace off the bounce off the lower channel line. Exited at the mean. For the open... while we are having lower highs, that long term upper channel line is still there. Might...

Monday, presidents day. We are near the long term upper trend lines. Not there, so we may reach them. [Note: My platform doesn't let me make the upper channel line and lower channel line different colors, so I added in a shaded 99% and 1%... ] There are areas of interest below. If...

Oh yes. And the essential of a journal being understanding what you are thinking when you trade. What was I thinking when I got in, or out? I'm kind of backing up still. Thinking of the frustrated ones I've talked to and remembering when I was there more so than now. Also, what you are...

And yes, making 'no losing days' a part of one's mindset or even as a goal -- is self defeating. __________________ One aspect of working out a plan &/or setting up a journal, is finding who you are. I have sat for an hour each week in a siminar now for years. Primarily Elliot wave...

My other general take away from this last week due to a conversation with another trader about 'not losing'. Being able to scratch. Warren Buffet made the comment once that the basic advice he would give traders is "don't lose money'! I sat in on a video lecture from a high priced trade...

I had typed into my personal journal, and it wouldn't let me copy and paste that into here. so I just typed it in... that seemed to work.

Recent shifts in trading: I have never liked rules. I have always been noticed as being creative and artistic even in non-creative environments. Rules have always been something that limited creative insight and made art stale. And usually rules that others seemed to need, I could see...

Now why is Et only posting the first few lines of my posts? edit: It's not letting me paste

The things that have moved recently in trading: I have never liked rules. While I have done construction, science, teaching, retail/wholesale businesses

That was a cool article. Thx DB

Each student defended their tool, their 'indicator'. At the end we were each content that we were right. Our indicator gave the best answer. Then as we were leaving someone asked the professor what he would do. He said the problem was one he actually had recently. He went to the pet...

One of the more memorable days from grad school was when the prof spent the whole lecture hour giving us a problem concerning toxicity. He outlined it and had us each spend 5 min coming up with a plan to work with the problem. This is agricultural pathology. Very down to earth professors...

Along with everything everyone else seems to be experiencing as a trader I have the experience of being profitable for days, weeks, a month or two and then getting off track. I believe my plan(s) were overly complex. That or in other ways not sustainable. The straight line approach has an...

Thanks Buro

SlaPa ZenPa? releasing the unessential. I think I see better from your explanation of what AMT is and isn't.

A guiding idea is that trading is about size. I've talked to people who are profitable, but still have difficulty trading size. The way we are considering scratching gives me confidence towards trading size. Getting rid of indicator distractions, simplicity goes towards trading size...

Thanks RN and Db for your observations. I re-read the ATM posts. The visuals from the video somehow did and do help me, along with the kids youthful optimism. But I'm not going to trade with profiles on my charts. Or sit there and think about R:R. Or 'all that money'. Once I saw the...