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Lots of motivational stuff being posted. How's your actual trading going?

They tell you what happened in that time frame. It's up to you to guess what's going to happen next.

So how much of the crime is related to substance abuse? One way to eliminate substance abuse is to take away the profit motive from the criminals. Have the government issue free drugs to whoever wants them. Spend the money they save fighting crime on education about drug use and family...

When I use the 2% rule I use it as follows: 2% of my acout value is the amount I'm willing to risk on any one trade. I take the difference between my entry and my stop and use that amount to divide into amount I'm willing to lose. If 2% of my account value is $2000 and the difference between my...

Why is that? What is stopping you for closing your position?

I attribute much of my success to being lazy. I'll find an easy way to do something. If you run into a brick wall you can keep banging into it until you get through or you can find a way around it or over it. I prefer to wait until someone else has found a way then follow them. Work smart not...

What does that mean? Is the trade closed or have you just hit your target and continue to hold?

Doesn't matter where, once the market knows you are short it will reverse.

You can try and blame other people and other factors but the only thing you really have control over is the decisions that you make.

I saw that. Congrats. I'd have been sitting with a small loss.

Do you really think so? I look at the weekly chart of SPY and although I'm seeing higher lows I'm not really seeing higher highs. (418.31 Jan high hasn't been broken)

Don't hold losing trades!!

Probably not. I'll bet the problem is cashing in winning trades too quickly and holding losers too long. Fear & Greed at work!!

Minervini is a swing trader not a day trader.

I haven't seen that claim do you have a link?

In many cases, improvement is not about doing more things right, but about doing fewer things wrong. This is a concept called improvement by subtraction, which is focused on doing less of what doesn’t work: eliminating mistakes, reducing complexity, and stripping away the inessential...

I found time and sales data to be much more reliable than L2. The big boys played games with L2 in that bids and asks would disappear as price got close.

Look after the losses and the gains will look after themselves. Capital preservation is my number one priority. Once I made the decision not to hold any losers in my portfolio, huge drawdowns became a thing of the past.

I agree with what you are saying but I'm not sure what system the OP is using. Depends on what ma's and what time period he is using. If the market trends he might do okay. If his position management is decent he can survive until the chop ends. FWIW I make 80% of my money on 20% of my...