How can I get over fear of making big profits?

Quote from BCE:

FWIW I appreciate your posts with consistently excellent advice aimed at helping jinxu as I appreciate the posts of others along these lines and I've tried to offer some constructive advice too. But it's up to you jinxu to find a way to actually use the advice or not. And as I mentioned in another thread, expressing appreciation to more experienced traders trying to help you wouldn't hurt either. We're not being paid to help you or anything. We can ignore your posts if we choose. Expressing appreciation helps complete the circuit. Good luck to you one way or the other.
Honestly, I don't understand why some of you are concerned about being thank for your advice. I'm a member of a few other forums on the net and often time people are rarely being thanked for their advice. I am thinking this has more to do with a generation issue. My silence is not because I'm not thankful for your advice, but b/c I'm busy filtering through them all. There's a lot of them. Typing a reply takes time away from reading. I don't have the time to reply to them all, but if you want appreciation here it is. Thanks for your input.
 
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Honestly, I don't understand why some of you are concerned about being thank for your advice. I'm a member of a few other forums on the net and often time people are rarely being thanked for their advice. I am thinking this has more to do with a generation issue. My silence is not because I'm not thankful for your advice, but b/c I'm busy filtering through them all. There's a lot of them. Typing a reply takes time away from reading. I don't have the time to reply to them all, but if you want appreciation here it is. Thanks for your input.

Look who's speaking. Arrogance of a complete newbie has reached its zenith. A primary reason why users should put you on ignore. Not like people are expecting a word of appreciation but they do expect some kind of feedback. Perhaps you consider coming out of the green room and discuss what advice was helpful to you and how you are going to reflect this in your future trading, a@$hole.
 
Quote from Marcell:

Perhaps you consider coming out of the green room and discuss what advice was helpful to you and how you are going to reflect this in your future trading, a@$hole.
Why didn't you just ask?
 
Quote from NoDoji:

Palatine, your post is really spot on for jinxu. Trading a larger term trend is far more forgiving as long your account can endure the swings and you recognize the warning signs to get out.

Jinxu is trading a tiny account and I'm pretty sure is unable to hold e-mini positions overnight. Maybe he could trade options for larger trend swings, but before he trades anything again he needs to learn to identify a trend, the life cycle of a trend, the price action that triggers a low-risk entry point into the trend, and the difference between a retrace and reversal.

Day traders need to master the same concepts as swing traders, but they need to always trade within their time frame. You can't make a trading decision off a 5-min chart and then switch to a daily chart because a trade isn't going your way. If you trade a 5 minute time frame, your "trends" are found within that time frame in a single day's session. When trading a 5-min chart, a 5-min price bar is equivalent to the swing trader's "day".

"A newbie is not proficient enough to maneuver the small swings. It leads to fatal mistakes, jinxu, and possibly blowups. Emotions come into your way which can be avoided if your focus are large trends."

I think the biggest dangers for newbie day traders are that they don't yet understand trends, cycles, reversal signals, breakouts, etc. and aren't prepared to calculate entry triggers, stops and profit target zones quickly, over and over again throughout the day. They try to trade intraday with 1-, 2- and 5-min charts, no firm trading plan other than buy low/sell high/sell high/buy low, and when a trade goes against their opinion (usually an opinion made based on a much larger time frame or on news) they stay in it until it "comes back" or they add to it in an attempt to get back to even.

It's like a casual weekend bicyclist suddenly competing in a motocross competition with no prior training.

Best advice to jinxu that so many have offered is spend a lot of time in sim. Learn to identify trends, trend life cycles, reversal signals, breakouts, failed breakouts, etc., choose the setups you like best, then learn to properly enter a trade without chasing, and learn to use fixed survivable stops and flexible profit targets.


If you really want to help jinxu, and I'm assuming that is what you really wish to do, then get your head out your ass and quit throwing a fckin encyclopedia at him. Throwing a mass of confusing concepts in bulk at him is not helping him at all, I can assure you.

Take just ONE concept from what you wrote and run it thru' live. Use a separate thread if you have to. Side benefit would be help to a thousand other jinxus.
 
Quote from deadbroke:

If you really want to help jinxu, and I'm assuming that is what you really wish to do, then get your head out your ass and quit throwing a fckin encyclopedia at him. Throwing a mass of confusing concepts in bulk at him is not helping him at all, I can assure you.

Take just ONE concept from what you wrote and run it thru' live. Use a separate thread if you have to. Side benefit would be help to a thousand other jinxus.
There's no need to do that. I understand many of those concepts already. How do you think it was possible to make 450% in 11 trading days if I didn't know a thing or two? :)
 
Quote from jinxu:

There's no need to do that. I understand many of those concepts already. How do you think it was possible to make 450% in 11 trading days if I didn't know a thing or two? :)

The same way my grandma won a couple hundred dollars on the slot machines when she went to Las Vegas back in her day.

No offense, just sayin'....
 
Quote from deadbroke:

If you really want to help jinxu, and I'm assuming that is what you really wish to do, then get your head out your ass and quit throwing a fckin encyclopedia at him. Throwing a mass of confusing concepts in bulk at him is not helping him at all, I can assure you.

Take just ONE concept from what you wrote and run it thru' live. Use a separate thread if you have to. Side benefit would be help to a thousand other jinxus.

A new economic concept has been designed relatively to the free lunch, "TANSTAASP." There Ain't No Such Thing As A Silver Platter.

No matter what someone tells you, you have to see it for yourself to trust it. I can tell you how I trade, but you won't take the signals until you see it for yourself that what I do works. Even then you ("you" read as "people in general") will then take what you see and make it your own or figure out your own criteria for what creates the signal. Even, even then you will have to deal with the psychological games that the market plays with your mind.

Only until someone decides to let go of their ego will one be able to objectively decide that they want to be a better trader. Nobody can tell you how to trade until you can pull the trigger on your own. The fact that someone says, "I don't need help, I already know everything, my results prove it..." is your ego speaking.

This isn't directed at anyone, just adding for the sake of discussion.
 
Quote from jinxu:

There's no need to do that. I understand many of those concepts already. How do you think it was possible to make 450% in 11 trading days if I didn't know a thing or two? :)


Cool. :)

But just understanding is only the beginning, an important one no doubt. Its the repetition that cements the concept and this could be spread out over months or more.

For example, the simple godgiven, Nature's trendline. Easy to understand, easy to draw. Yet, how many times, despite the fact that I understood the concept, did I neglect to draw one, when had I done so, a rally or breakdown would have been clearcut to discern. It took a while to make this a habit.

On a side note, a trendline is like a soothing medicine - it reduces confusion by being directly in line with "how do you deal with a confusion?" ... find a stable datum. The trendline does this - so does S/R
 
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