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Market's going higher... Pulling that limit sell at 5410 and just going to see how the Open plays out. If today rallies, we should see 5420 at least.

If you're an expert/intermediate trader who's crushing it feel free to tell me to f**k off (or maybe tell me to f**k off anyway), but I think you're doing it the wrong way around. My entries aren't always good either, so what I do is to take small losses on initial entries and then I will add...

If I didn't know better, that could almost be perceived as a bit condescending... :)

I'd say a great trend following system (which gets in early and gets out late) is the superior trading system. Especially if it can recognize range bound behavior and can sideline then in order to not get chopped up as most trend following systems invariably do in range bound conditions. The...

If you hope it goes to 5432 - why aren’t you long?

Swinging for 5410 or more tomorrow. Probably not until RTH, though.

I’m long, too. ES/NQ. Hoping for the big one tomorrow. Stopped out for a small loss on the initial long entry off the Open. That drop may easily have been some hedging. Hoping I’m not waking up to a gap down through my stops on bad news from the Middle East…

Agreed. Let’s just pray we don’t have some silly big gap up on Globex. Won’t chase that. Now watch this sell hard on the Globex Open. LOL.

Personally, I'm betting on continuation tomorrow. If I like the action on the Globex Open, I'll start legging into a small sized long in case the bull train leaves the station early and add more later. If I'm early or wrong, losses will be small. Can't rule out a pullback first or even a...

Interesting. Is that specific philoshopy the same he's showing on recent threads he's creating? Scat blocked me for asking critical questions. The way I see it, he's drawing lines on yesterday's chart cherry picking the perfect signals while the very same charts show multiple times where the...

Curious. Why were you calling for a drop? For the first time in a long while I was trading what I thought would happen, i.e., risk off into the weekend because of the unresolved Iran/Israel situation. That's the only reason I was kind of bearish on Friday. Did you see something else?

Humbly, the market doesn't find anything. The market just is. It's completely impersonal. There's only you. Completely normal. Even if you size down this type of volatility is demanding for a discretionary trader. I was pretty exhausted at the end of this week, but part of it was probably that...

Funny as it's the other way around for me. I just can't read OHLC bars as efficiently as a candlestick. Maybe it's just a matter of habit and personal preferences. Anyway, it's an interesting subject, i.e., how to display your information. I've deliberately done what I can to make my charts...

One other thing you could consider is a brokerside enforced daily loss limit. I know Ninjatrader at least have it. Can help you from going on a complete tilt and recover your senses until the next day. It's incredible how much damage can be done in just a few hours or even minutes in this game...

One simple example I can think of is the breakout of a level. If you look at index futures for example, you can have either have a straight away successful breakout that never looks back or you can have an initial breakout which is reversed and then chops around a bit before either reversing or...

That's interesting. I've seen some claims that OHLC bars are better and I've tried using them, but for me, they just don't speak to me and I think they're harder to read. I guess we all have our differences and preferences. :)

I just noticed something off with your chart. When you use the minute timeframe on TradingView, you can choose to show the RTH session or ETH session. However, it seems like for daily charts and higher the ETH session is shown by default and you can't select RTH. In Ninjatrader, I have the...

And where did it take you, may I ask? I've had a few myself in fact and my general advice is the same as I give on these boards. Forget about the idea of (day) trading. Invest your money instead and do something else with your life. Actively trading is arguably one of the most difficult ways...

Yes, at 2 years you're still a newbie. I believe we must go as far back as the covid plunge in 2020 to see anything which resemble the action we saw on some of the days over the last two weeks. This was a 10 % correction on SPX so far (assuming it's over), but the speed of it and the...

Nearly all TA is built on indicators? My goodness. The ignorance on display here is impressive. Obviously, the reason why some think prediction can't be done is because it's based on their own unsuccessful experience trying to do so. It's always good to keep an open mind as to what's possible...