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Yea, breaking the big triangle.

Nice breakout from a right range indeed.

Agree. Our brain is much more complex than just conscious conclusions, which are possible to be written down as words. Our adaptive abilities include a lot of subliminal factors we just "know", even if cannot put them into ideal logical chain. No computer algo can do that. Such an...

I think the best way to get used to trading bigger is start small and gradually increase little by little, so that you adapt to the bigger size without too much stress. There are two ways to achieve this: 1) Start with the bigger capital and add contracts trading something like ES. But...

Well, "can be done" doesn't mean it necessarily should be this way. :)

Yes, I do, but they usually blow trades far in my direction. :p http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&postid=3454319#post3454319 HFT algos are good for a nimble trader, because they trade in a much more predictable way than humans do.

Trading 1 contract of ES with $5K account and a max stop-loss of 2 handles is no way being under-capitalized IMO. 2% max risk is absolutely reasonable. I agree with low educated point, though. Most people don't realize what amount of efforts and learning this business requires.

Price action based stop-loss of 4 pips: http://www.cornixforex.com/2012/02/several-technical-factors-together/

Yup. For well tuned entries you often go well with even less than that. Best trades go into the money immediately.

OK, getting a bit too advanced today to show principles of fine tuning 5-min setups using 1-min chart. Even 6 pips stop feels like too wide then. :D http://www.cornixforex.com/2012/02/level-re-test-2b-pattern-fine-tuned-on-lower-time-frame/

Attitude is psychological term. :)

Ditto, sitting short EURUSD. :) http://www.cornixforex.com/2012/02/123-reversal-as-a-part-of-bigger-channel-action/

Some titbits on what to do immediately after entering 123 reversal pattern and when it behaves not perfectly. http://www.cornixforex.com/2012/02/how-to-deal-with-tricky-123-reversals/

IMO, violence to yourself is not optimal way to achieve goals. Much more productive is practice some exercises to transform your intents, even subliminal into something that suits your conscious goals.

A little bit off topic, but this example suits very well in our earlier discussion with Achilles28 about failed patterns being a sort of a pattern themselves. http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&postid=3453272#post3453272

Another good demonstration of a failed 123 reversal turned into OK continuation trade. http://www.cornixforex.com/2012/02/another-failed-reversal-turned-into-ok-continuation/

I believe ego should not be killed in this case. Simply, we switch our focus to something different. Our ego bothers us with pain of being wrong on individual trades? What we do is tell to ourselves: "I am going to be cool, very cool trader if I manage to deal with this fact of losing and...

Not sure what exactly you mean, but as far as I know military people they are not very good with creating something from scratch, generating ideas. Very good at execution of them, though. Me having scientific background on the other side, suffered for years from being too creative in trading...

Yea, and no secrets, all it takes to distinguish randomness from what contains edge is screen time. Just a lot of screen time. :)

It's always the same price action on the chart. Just not everybody sees it. :D