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You mention that it's automated and that the wins are super small or something. Maybe it's because it's the discipline (that the automated system forces upon you) of taking a small profit and then staying out until the next "good" entry appears from the system? Perhaps if you were to cast a...

This is easily abused... :/

I'm new here. If this is what's happening at ET, then I'm not surprised. :)

I love the TastyTrade team! Tom and Tony are so approachable and if you email them, they respond even on weekends - even if it's stupid questions. They were the ones that got me interested in trading. Actually, thanks for reminding me, prior to doing all this, I did follow the way Tom taught...

Thanks, the videos seem to be easy to follow. I will go through them and see what it is about.

Eh? I'm not sure how you got the idea that this trade made the difference between a profitable year and flat... I have been unprofitable all year if that makes a difference... Not to single you out but having started browsing different threads, I'm getting the feeling that a lot of people here...

Oh, it was because I had attempted to pyramid down. But I was trading on the wrong thing. I had another thread in the futures forum about it. So basically, I scrambled as soon as I found out. But yes, to answer the question. But it wasn't a loss that I didn't feel either.

This. I believe crypto has a great future and can one day be an alternative or even replace fiat money. But right now, the way to make money in it is just... scary.

Thanks, I am going to do that tomorrow. Just make everything smaller. I don't want to take big hits like this... way too painful. Yes, I was definitely doing a more "improvising" way - changing as I read. Lesson learned - don't change that much and have a better plan.

I had not thought of it like this before. It makes perfect sense though I don't know why it never occurred to me. I made tons of changes to everything this year but never spent any solid amount of time to let it "run" or "test out". I guess that is what happened from last year to this year. I...

No, there are no other aliases. But you do remind me of the folks from places like StackOverflow. If you don't want to help, you can stay away. Don't have to put down everyone you meet like this.

Wow... I did not expect this response. No wonder most people lurk and don't participate.

The thing is, I changed my methodology somewhere along the way. I'm no longer doing what I was originally doing. But what I was originally doing doesn't make any technical sense. :confused:

Ok, the questions have spurred me to once again try to piece together what I did prior to my reading spree. I know for a fact: - I used MACD with the histogram. When it was green, I held onto the trade. When the bars looked like there were not getting "longer" and the two lines appeared to...

I wish I were reading those two lol That would be an easy fix haha No, I read stuff on "Price Action" (all the flags, patterns, triangles, etc.). I read up on candlesticks. I read a ton on how institutional traders trade - hundreds of forum posts (I concluded that they didn't do anything...

I thought I did have a method that made money. It worked last year... then I started reading. I can't even figure out if I should regret reading. Somewhere along the way, my trading changed. And I can't figure out where, when, and how. I can't figure out what I was doing differently last year...

I'm a little confused... do you mean, do not trade period, ever? (As in, general methodology is wrong.) Or do you mean, do not execute the trade I am toying with in my mind and just walk away from the screen? o_O

Hello, I could really use a second pair of eyes for this one. Had a bad streak and I'm feeling a little hard to control the emotions. I went long on VLO at $86.682. I'm looking at /CL (Crude Futures, Light, Sweet) and I'm seeing what I think is a sign of up-trend stalling. VLO does not follow...

This is really frustrating. Just got out of a painful trade. I thought I was starting to make sense of this and then, bam, there goes $15,000 right before Christmas. I haven't made a penny this year and I've been much more disciplined. Really wish I didn't have to keep paying market tuition. How...

Thank you both for responding. What a painful, painful day with this trade. Sigh, I had no choice. It broke through all resistance. So I'm out. For future reference though, any idea what happened? Or is the answer the same as it would be for any other stock?