ES Journal - 2023/2024

Laissez Faire said:
LOL.

I scaled down to micros after volatility spiked. Been switching back and forth. I like micros ccurrently for scaling into trades.

With a pending possible attack on Israel I felt micros were the best choice for an overnight hold.

I was hoping I could get up to 60-100 micros if today rallied off the Open, but the market did not agree with my plans...
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and you are switching to tradingview? you are a volume profile guy.
 
mervyn said:
why all the sudden folks are trading micro? I thought this is an adult table.
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They're in for a Swatch, not a Rolex
:D

If this was the adults table, why trade minis (as opposed to the full size contract)?

Some people here are trading 10 lots, others one micro, others sim trading...

Let everyone trade what they will.
 
Picaso said:
They're in for a Swatch, not a Rolex
:D

If this was the adults table, why trade minis (as opposed to the full size contract)?

Some people here are trading 10 lots, others one micro, others sim trading...

Let everyone trade what they will.
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Is there a trade-able "full contract"? Last I checked 10 years ago it was dead and everything was in the e-mini for SP500, ES.
 
Looks like the range may be set by now. Not expecting much more from the day at this point. Maybe ES 5380 and NQ a push above 650?

Maybe a dump, but I was told today should be green... :)

I honestly believe Iran killed the rally today.
 
Laissez Faire said:
I don't actually owe anyone to be posting any trades here, so again, not sure what you're trying to accomplish.
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I know you don't owe anyone anything, but I'm sure you also want either the respect here, or just the belief in yourself. Why else keep posting over and over again what you are doing or seeing? I also know you are sometimes busy right after you enter a trade, but lets face it, you never show the trades that don't work. Every trade shown is after it has gone into profit and you can move your stop to BE and lock in a target. All the other stop outs probably didn't even get to locking in a BE trade. Now I agree that you're busy in the moment, and posting on ET isn't the priority, but why not show a chart at the end of the day with all the trades?

Once again, I'm not wanting to be disrespectful but I think understand the reason. If you show all the trades, it might look like you're just throwing shit at the wall and hoping something sticks. Maybe its actually a good strategy to be honest because we never know what trade will work and which one won't (and the market loves to fake us out many times before the ultimate move). If you don't take a trade that sets up, you miss the profit. And just because 2 or 3 longs might fail doesn't mean the 4th one can't be a big winner. But I also suspect that you know that some people might consider this gambling or over trading, so you're reluctant to show this. Maybe by showing it, you're also having to realize yourself trading is more about luck than just skill. And maybe this realization will hurt because you want to believe that with enough analysis, bad trades can be eliminated and good trades can have a high win rate. So reading the market well as you call it, and having trades mostly be profitable isn't just about money, but also the need to feel a sense of accomplishment.

All I'm saying is that there is a reason why the trade posts that everyone here makes are very selective. @poopy does exactly this same shit. He will only ever post when he is up 3, 4 or 5% on the day. But when he doesn't post for a week, does that mean those are losing days? We never know.... but he clearly only wants the bragging rights. No doubt he is a good trader, and he is much better at this game than the rest of us, but this is exactly why the rest of us have to be very honest with ourselves because we still have a long way to go.
 
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