ES Journal Archive (2011)

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Quote from macho grande:

someone, give me a reason to cover mylongs now?

please, make an argument
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It's nearly lunch time and you are up money to pay for lunch. Not many longs can say the same.:)
 
Quote from Laissez Faire:

Very nice, bigsnack . :)

It is currently not written in black and white in my plan, but I consider implementing it from here.

It is hard though, because it goes a little against how I view the market, but I think it is fair to say that it is hard to sustain good discretionary trading for one complete session (at least for newbies like me). Maybe trading the whole session skillfully is something one needs to grow into. :)

Most of the days where I`ve been up a substantial amount of points, I have usually given away parts or all of it when I continued "gambling". Yesterday was one good example. Not interested in a repeat today.
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Yes I am with you in that I find it extremely difficult to stay focused even past 9:00 PST. I think an algo assisted plan would maybe help with that, but I haven't really explored that avenue.
 
Quote from bigsnack:

You know, I was planning to post something like this a while ago and forgot to. This was one of the last hurdles in my trading in the past 6 months, and I can't believe I didn't think of it earlier. Once I started opening the SIM platform right alongside the live platform, my win rate and accuracy on the live account went through the roof!

I realized that all I really wanted to see was an open position on the ladder, and that was the real lure of taking trades that didn't match my plan. I started taking all of "those" trades on the SIM, so that I got that satisfaction without any risk. Then, when I get that great setup where your gut just says "THERE IT IS DUMMY", those are the ones that I take live.

It also helped take the edge of performing off. If there is ever a day where I am feeling tired, non focused, etc., I can wail on the simulator to satisfy the urge :)
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Glad it worked for you, Bigsnack. I had the opposite experience, having both sim and live accounts open seriously distracted me.

Goes to prove, IMO, that you should trade in a way that fits your personality so there cannot be ONE way to trade.

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EMG, dónde you, Amigo? We want mucho dinero! :) :p
 
Quote from JoshDance:

planning on selling 29.25, if confirmation when/if it gets there
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EDIT: Sorry, Josh, meant to quote MachoGrande, not you :eek:

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Quote from macho grande:

planning on selling my longs @32
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US lunch

EU meeting starting just now - press conference in 1 hour 15 minutes

Drive carefully
 
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