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I use 2 trading platforms at once - 2 different brokers - and the bid/ask is always the same for what while I'm watching except when a major volatility move is in progress; then the bid/ask often gets crossed.

Thanks, metoo, for your encouragement! Every day I watch those big dogs sniffing and ask "Will they lift their leg??" And they do more often than not! I have to laugh every time, not just ES S/R levels but when stocks I'm watching are about to test highs or lows. Tonight I finally...

Geez, you won the bet, didn't you???

This is very difficult for me to overcome too. Today it was easy to stay in the original breakout trade not only because it was sim account (no emotion), but mainly because the trend was never even close to invalidated. Lately the action has had deeper pullbacks to, and even through, the 20 EMA...

I will say this, it's been good for me to practice decent trade management, like not moving stops too quickly. Now if I can transfer that footloose-and-fancy-free feeling to live trades....

No live trades today. Watched ES exclusively and sim traded the opening range long trigger @ 982.50. Since it was sim and I had no emotion tied to the trade (no comments please, I know, ditch the sim) I decided to stay in the trade as long as I could unless the 20-period EMA was breached...

No trades today.

Did not trade today. Nothing I was watching jumped out at me, things that did jump out, had already jumped by the time they came to my attention, and I did not exercise proper patience in my main long pick, POT. After it ranged for hours, I took it off my watch. A watched POT never boils. It...

No trades today.

Definitely a problem for me, no doubt, mainly a result of letting small winners turn into large losers during my brief time trading.

This morning I was thinking about Bob's comment. I reviewed my best trades since I started trading and realized that they ARE the ones that feel good. I've had days when I know exactly what I'm going to do on the open because I'm so confident in the trade and they are immediately profitable. The...

Good answer!

I challenge you to a lunch time trading duel. :D

It's very difficult for me to erase former trades so they don't taint the current trade. As you know just last week I left a couple hundred dollars behind by allowing one trade to influence how I would manage the very next trade.

If your profit target on this trade was a minimum of 50 pips, we may let you slide on this one, depending on what you give as the reason for taking off the trade so far from your target. :D

What do you mean by this: Your stop got taken out with major slippage? You expected the trade to move in your favor and placed no stop and now you're waiting for price to "come back", but price is laughing at you while saying, "Squeal like a pig!"? I, too, am about as new a trader as...

The biggest pump and dump is the analyst upgrades/downgrades. You notice as soon as a charming favorite moves too high, there's analyst downgrades "due to valuation". Give me a break, the market's a freaking auction! Valuation is determined by the auction participants. And as soon as a stock...

NoDoji: I seek the Grail! I have seen it, here in this castle! Dingo: No, oh no! Bad, bad Hermit! NoDoji: What is it? Dingo: He has been setting a light to our beacon, which, I've just remembered, is Grail shaped. It's not the first time we've had this problem. NoDoji: It's not the...

I'll be glad to reveal one of my trading secrets, because so many here have revealed their secrets to me ("Mojo." - Red_Ink; "Lucky coin." - Robert Weinstein; "Ranching technique." - JH; "Increase the # of shares, girl!" - Jack8031). Using a 12cm x 13cm sized chart in PowerEtradePro, short...

Last night I tucked in to bed with my favorite (price) action novel, "Reading Price Charts Bar By Bar", and I turned to Mr. NoD and said, “You know, we should short ES because Friday's consumer sentiment will drive the overseas markets lower, which will cause our futures to tank.” And, too...