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I use tick charts but see no difference between tick and time charts

I make 2-4 trades a day. Today I made two trades. I only trade at major levels. Don't re-enter.

No, I can't do demo. I need money now. I need to repay the credit card loan and I need money to eat. If I have to fail, I need to fail quickly so that I will be forced to take some job.

yes, but what it does for my trading? I don't need to see every trade. I am just loooking at bar chart. Actually I dont' even look at bars. I could have as well used line charts

Also, very often the trading opportunities like these (price reaching major support/resistance levels) happen at odd hours, so it sucks

I have IB data feed. But many wise forum fellows contend that you need to have tick data and so I listened to them like a sheep and subscribed to IQFeed. But it does not affect my trading (I don't even understand what's the difference between tick and non-tick) so probably I will cancel my...

Yes, but this is not for scalping. For example, I liked trading USD.CAD - it's been very well-behaved recently on an hourly chart - moving in nice channels. So many times I made trades when the prices touched channel lines. But very often I could not realize substantial gains because in forex...

I did not know that. But ES makes a couple of 5-10 point moves every day. If only I could capture them.. Today I made 4 points in the morning. Not bad, but I was stopped out of 10 point move. Need to overcome fear but hard to do when you lost $11K.

I hate spending money on trading tools because I am not making any money with them. First, I subscribed to Investor/RT Mac version but their Mac version sucked and they never told anyone that their Mac version sucks! Leechers! So I lost $50 there. Then I subscribed to Multicharts and also bought...

Why? Of course, I do. What is special about summer?

With ES I have a problem with staying in the trade. Whenever my trade goes 1.5-2.0 points in my favor I am tempted to move my stops and then they get hit and I get out of the trade which would have made double or triple the money. I have no big wins or big losses, and my small losses outnumber...

Which does not mean it's not true. My story is 100% true and I can prove it.

Quick update. I quit forex a few weeks ago when my equity got down to $5K. Forex is for losers. It's very hard to make money trading forex intra-day because of so much noise. I started trading ES mini (1 contract). I like it much better - the movements are much more consistent and steady than...

Sorry to hear that. R.I.P.

This is not MECE: not mutually exclusive collectively exhaustive. My story can be true and I can troll at the same time. I have not blown my account yet but close to it.

By the way, who is trading forex right now? US, London, and Asia are closed, who is doing the trading?

People, read my journal from the beginning before asking questions!

Account is down to $8K, have not had a winning day for a long time. Yet, I remember a quote I have seen on this forum: "The number one trait of all successful traders is the refusal to quit in the face of adversity". It sounds very true. Stubbornness might not make you a great trader, but...

..continued In the evening of the same day I quickly deposited $8K to my account bringing my total deposits to $10K and the next day I won $2K. Needless to say I was elated. I made plans to become a millionaire by the end of the year. I believed that it was a manifestation of my destiny. I...

Thank you for your comment. But I will try full time trading now. As I said, I can afford to lose 15K. I have a pretty strong resume, so I am sure I will be able to find some job quickly if I fail at trading.