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Approximately 800 pips since the beginning of this year. But I started trading for only 3 hours a day in the end of January, traded much longer hours before, so profits in January were bigger and decreased later. I would not provide account statements now though, cause run a few accounts and...

Went long @ 1.4058 and quickly took +9 pips.

Long got stopped out for -3 pips.

Opened EUR/USD long @ 1.4059.

I am not very familiar with SPX options liquidity and agree that in relatively illiquid options or stocks posting your position and entry may give away your hand somehow to other market participants, but that's definitely not the case with liquid futures, options or forex where nobody cares...

S/R are great, yeah! :) Agree again. You have to be smart and deliberate enough to collect stats, interpret it correctly and build a trading system upon it, plan your trades well. But dumb enough to not think over every trade, just trade your plan.

Yeah, managing the good winner correctly after a series of losing trades is one of the toughest emotional challenges in this business. And, IMO, that is the reason why so many fail to trade simple trading methods, which have relatively low hitrate and why these low hitrate high R/R methods...

100 contracts in ES means nothing, will not even move the price by one tick most of the time during RTH, not even speaking of someone "milking" or anyhow using it...

Completely agree with the statement that the dumber you are, the better you trade. :D

Well, those people are right, day trading can make a good money, but after one spends a few years and a lot of money deliberately learning how to do that, not before. :p

You really believed that knowing someone's entry points equals to knowing all nuances of his trading decisions? :D

Took profit on that long of 9 pips.

EURUSD long trade entered @ 1.4151.

Posting trades and giving edge away are two very different stories, especially as for discretionaly trading methods.

I post both winners and losers in my ET journal, Twitter feed and the blog. Those are not all trades I ever take, but all within the given method I publish.

Today's session is over, it's been a good day. Here's the explanation of one of today's trades: http://www.cornixforex.com/2011/03/trade-example_24.html

Closed short for +15 pips.

Short @ 1.4081.

Closed trade for +8 pips.

Long @ 1.4059.