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WTF, mate, as I like to say.

I think it's a very strong long at this price. I totally forgot about it while trading today and had no idea it fell so far.

Neke, in chat WTFC acquired the nickname "What the F*ck, Charlie!" :eek:

Day $100 Week $166 Month: $1243 YTD $17913 (30%) Not my worst month this year, but nothing to write home about either. It was a month of much study, paper trading, testing strategies, and fighting a lack of confidence. I am happy to end the month with a much better sense of trust in my...

+ $100 I have trade management issues :D Have a great weekend and a profitable August to all!

The higher they climb the harder they fall. Watch for signs of support because with a 60% short interest, the bounce should be decent.

Dac, I've only started reading Brooks' book and it's fantastic. It's nice to know that the path I've followed leading to where I am right now without any paid programs, classes, or gurus, is much like Brooks' way of trading. As for the Peter Lynch idea, you are right, it was effective in a...

If you only eat a whole foods plant-based diet (no animal products, oils or refined foods), you are right, your health should be excellent and your strong immune system will be able to fight the deleterious effects of toxins found in conventionally gown foods. But organic definitely tastes...

Exactly! I plan to start trading this way more often, so I don't miss out. I see the setups forming then I look away, or get some tea, or God forbid, go to bathroom without my laptop, and the train leaves the station without me. So when I see the setup and want to get in upon a confirmation...

+ $49 I’m still having a terrible time overcoming price bias. Here’s the recap of the day: THE GOOD: I did trade 2 ES short signals today and managed the trades perfectly with a -$17.30 (1 tick) loss on each when the expected moves failed to materialize. Both signals were solid as a...

+ $49 My goal today was to do Mark Douglas' 20-trade exercise with ES. Instead I do 3 trades. I skip both my opening long signals on ES missing a fantastic trend, scratched 2 short trades, then moved on to stocks, thereby missing the 3rd great short entry on ES and about 10 more solid...

I look at the scary hard right edge, and I form an opinion, and I pass on the trade, yet I paper trade it just so I have a large sample size of trades to base whether my strategy has positive expectancy or not. At the end of the day, I realize that I would've ended the day net profitable...

Hi Brocklanders, I'm glad you enjoy my journal. I've been mainly paper trading lately, some stocks based on strategies much different from what I used to do, and mainly ES. I have a strategy that works on paper. On paper I take all my setups, and I never move my stops too soon. On paper...

+ $29 I watched ES in pre-market react to the durable goods news, and figured there’d be times when I’d like to take advantage of after hours trading. My concern was whether stops work after hours (they don’t work with stocks AH), so I checked the configuration in IB, set STP orders to...

+$29 Just a couple tiny trades, and still trying to psyche myself into trading ES live, taking all signals. I'll either do it soon, or get a real job :D

Look for a pullback to previous resistance around 93-94 and buy into strength off that level? (Prev R becomes S)

That depends on your time horizon. It was a decent short off the lower high just before 10 a.m. today, as a day trade. But today it made a new 52-week high, and closed within pennies of the day's high, so that doesn't make it a decent short. It's overbought, but then again it's been...

What I've noticed through observation is that since the market has been in a steady uptrend over the past few months, gaps up tend to be much stronger at continuing to move up rather than closing any part of the gap. Back when the market was in a steady downtrend (Jan-Mar), fading gaps up was...

Only paper traded today, continuing to gain confidence in new styles of trading as well as in ES action. ES opening range long signal 975.00, short signal 970.25. Long signal triggered first, good for a 4 pt move. Pullback from high and failed retest pushed price back under the upper...

No live trades, paper traded ES and breakout strategies.