ES Journal - 2015

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Although most days you can trade either side of the market, it's days like this that keep me trading just one side (direction of the trend) and skipping the other side.
 
--02/02/15 Monday afterhours PM. Closed the trade here at 2012.75 and have reversed long here at 2012.75. Initial stop is 1968.75 during RTH.
--02/03/2015 Tuesday afterhours PM. Price is 2040.50. See no reason right now to elevate my protective sell stop. It will remain at 1968.75 for now and will be in effect during RTH
--02/04/2015 Wed afterhours PM. Price is 2024.50. No reason to move stop yet until trade moves in my favor.
--02/06/15 Fri afterhours AM. Price is 2054.25. Need to close a bit higher for my stop to move upwards.
--02/06/15 Fri after hours PM. Price closed the week at 2056.00. Holding trade with same RTH stop.
--02/09/15 Mon after hours PM. Price is 2044.75. Need the trade to move more in my favor to raise my stop.
--02/10/15 Tues afterhours PM. Price is 2061.75. Not enough movement or time yet to raise stop.
--02/13/15 Fri afterhours AM. Price is 2084.75. Raising sell stop to 1995.00 RTH. At the moment, there is no evident reason to take profits or reverse short.
 
--02/02/15 Monday afterhours PM. Closed the trade here at 2012.75 and have reversed long here at 2012.75. Initial stop is 1968.75 during RTH.
--02/13/15 Fri afterhours AM. Price is 2084.75. Raising sell stop to 1995.00 RTH. At the moment, there is no evident reason to take profits or reverse short.

This has been a great trade. zero heat. why allow the possibility of turning a 70+ pt winner into a loser, and not b/e, at the least?
 
This has been a great trade. zero heat. why allow the possibility of turning a 70+ pt winner into a loser, and not b/e, at the least?
Need to really let these run so that I can occasionally pick up the really big gains with full position on. I don't see anything at the moment that suggests removing the trade. I expect pullbacks etc as we go but that is something that one must endure.--Need to have the big gains to more than offset the losses by a goodly margin.--Also breakeven doesn't correspond to any support level on the chart, so breakeven stop would just be an emotional crutch.
 
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