CL Redux
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Quote from gov:
I have two daughters in the ivy league, so I can _always_ use the money....
It's the problem with marrying intelligent women: you get intelligent kids that get admitted to expensive unis.
5 is half your normal size? Edit: meaning, do you vary size depending on the quality of the setup?
+.71
up, up
you deaf? Go baby, go!!!
:14 stopped out .59 (-12 ticks)
Chasing the entry, bad fill, would have been stopped out anyway, but at a smaller loss.
The stop was at .56 and thought of making it SAR, but everything is very mixed, so decided against it. I was stopped out a bit higher when I moved the stop seeing the TICK was bending badly and seeing we were going down some more, tried to save a few ticks.
Same old, same old: not pulling the triggers at the "prime" setups, then winding up and forcing myself to put on trades when things are mixed (not that it was an awful trade, but normally I wouldn't take it there).
Yes, Gov, thank you for the explanation.
up, up
you deaf? Go baby, go!!!
:14 stopped out .59 (-12 ticks)
Chasing the entry, bad fill, would have been stopped out anyway, but at a smaller loss.
The stop was at .56 and thought of making it SAR, but everything is very mixed, so decided against it. I was stopped out a bit higher when I moved the stop seeing the TICK was bending badly and seeing we were going down some more, tried to save a few ticks.
Same old, same old: not pulling the triggers at the "prime" setups, then winding up and forcing myself to put on trades when things are mixed (not that it was an awful trade, but normally I wouldn't take it there).
Yes, Gov, thank you for the explanation.
Quote from Picaso:
It's the problem with marrying intelligent women: you get intelligent kids that get admitted to expensive unis.
5 is half your normal size? Edit: meaning, do you vary size depending on the quality of the setup?
Yes, I trade 5s, 10s, and 20's, sometimes 1s and 2s depending on the action of the day and how sure I am of my reading. I tend to trade around a number; for instance, I know my setup says that that last trade goes "bad" below 81.47, so in my mind 81.46 is a disallowed condition. However, I may put a closer stop in initially. I might add near there, or take the stop depending on what things look like when I arrive there. I did not add on this one as I didn't like the action, but it wasn't panic time and drop everything either. Also, I tend to add more to winners than to losers.
In this case, looking at the 3 min bar that ends at 7:06, the low was 81.59. That was a long up bar and then a sideways consolidation. If it breaks, it should run, but in this case it did not, only a tick and reversed, so that trapped those new shorts into a loosing position, which told me I could get out a bit better.
At this point, if it breaks .57 I would be gone, since that is now what my system dictates. However, I took an out at .70 at 7:58:28. Hope this helps.
sim
damn
short at .31 via stop
had to get out of previous trade because I accidentally entered without an ATM (stop + target).
Was trying to reenter when it dropped (I had the sim order placed in advance, which incidentally is why when I switched to live it did without stop & target)
hahaha, fuck I'm seriously jinxed
Anyway, holding at be, target 80.60-ish
:40 stopped out be
damn
short at .31 via stop
had to get out of previous trade because I accidentally entered without an ATM (stop + target).
Was trying to reenter when it dropped (I had the sim order placed in advance, which incidentally is why when I switched to live it did without stop & target)
hahaha, fuck I'm seriously jinxed
Anyway, holding at be, target 80.60-ish
:40 stopped out be