Thanks for the thorough explanation. Your posts though made it seem like you were still holding, and this is much different. You're of course allowed to post as much or as little as you want, but from what I gather, you just like to post the good stuff, and of course who doesn't. But in my opinion, this actually causes issues because now you're almost on the hook for having to do well. When you cherry pick the trades you show, you force yourself to only post the ones that are working, which we see. You only show when you are nicely ahead and your stop is well above your entry. But you also never show the other trades on the chart that got to this point, which today you say was a bunch of stabs at it on the way down.
I think that by getting into the habit of only showing the good stuff, but never the bad stuff, this will put pressure on you. I kind of see it in the way you write, and also when you go quiet. When losses pile up, I think it makes you feel that you did something wrong, and hence are hiding. But all of this is just re-enforcing bad habits. There should be nothing wrong with showing losing trades. But when you don't want to show them, you put pressure on yourself to do well. I get the feeling from your writing that if a trade ends up being a loss, you feel that you did poorly and don't want to show your mistake. Its clearly not a mistake to have a losing trade, and taking a small loss is actually the win vs. holding it. Perhaps you don't want to show all the trades because there is some revenge trading going on there, but if this is what it takes to finally get into a good trade, then I'm not sure why all the secrecy.
Anyway... just some random thoughts that don't have much meaning.
I figured there's a nuke in the Middle East or something. I've no idea. Not sure I'm playing more today at this point.
