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Great trading this week. Are you combining swing trading with daytrading ? B/c of the last few days looks like you are just trying to ride the trend for 3-20 mins and take profits. Was reading through your journal and it looks like you dabbled in some disastrous swing trading in months past.

I generally only trade the morning session. My eyes cant handle sitting at a computer all day. Plus my accuracy goes down once the market has been open a few hours.

$250 / day per contract is totally doable for me in this environment. Just have lots of hesitation and failure to pull the trigger. Still looking for that "sure thing" that never happens in trading. Often it takes me like 20 or so minutes for the market to be open to say "fu#k it, lets take a...

Just an update. January has been good to me so far ! One issue I'm having is with trading my PnL. I've hidden it, but I still somewhat know where I'm at. And on Friday I'm trading 'weekly goals' instead of taking good trades. Like today, I traded conservatively b/c I only needed 2 NQ points...

Thanks guys for the responses.. One thing I know from past experience is that trying to squeeze more out of the market than what its providing often leads to b/e or losing days. 1 or 2 well placed trades is all I need. I try to keep my win rate very high. But at the same time, I'd love to be...

So I'm at this interesting part of my trading career where I've got enough of a grasp on price action be successful, now its all about building up that account and recovering years worth of losers. I focus on the NQ and RTY and trade the morning session. I'm profitable now, but now my question...