Ivan's Trade Thread, part II

I hear that. Just the waiting is the hardest for me for my setups. Which if I wait are usually pretty good. I am a scalper by nature(personality wise, and the way I learned to daytrade in the mid to late 90s old soes bandit) So I scalp to get my excitement on the indicies and use the longer tf's on fx but still intraday
 
I agree with you Cable. But you know good it feels to bitch sometimes. ha ha

I am thankful I am making $$$ and as much as I think it's fucked up that I should have more right now...it could be a hell of a lot worse.
 
Guess we all cannot complain to much if we are green but yes the need to vent is there sometimes no matter what!I get more pissed if I lose due to the broker screwing me then me screwing myself.
 
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Guess we all cannot complain to much if we are green but yes the need to vent is there sometimes no matter what!I get more pissed if I lose due to the broker screwing me then me screwing myself.
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Oh yeah I definitely agree with you!
 
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I hear that. Just the waiting is the hardest for me for my setups. Which if I wait are usually pretty good. I am a scalper by nature(personality wise, and the way I learned to daytrade in the mid to late 90s old soes bandit) So I scalp to get my excitement on the indicies and use the longer tf's on fx but still intraday
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You've been around longer than me in that case, you know the score by now :)

I'm just the same as you, I have a good setup criteria but I'm sometimes it's worst enemy, I've got no patience. As soon as I get trigger happy I know I shouldn't have done it, then what would have been a good trade is kinda screwed up and goes to pot.

I guess that's the psychology of trading for ya, we all do stupid stuff :)
 
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I agree with you Cable. But you know good it feels to bitch sometimes. ha ha

I am thankful I am making $$$ and as much as I think it's fucked up that I should have more right now...it could be a hell of a lot worse.
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lol, believe me I'd be bitchin if I'd been trading today, same Oanda crap as yesterday by the sound of it!
 
Yes scalping was easy back in the day and times have changed, and beleive me I have been around a while but I am young I started this out of college. And made a ton in the late 90s and early 2000s and then I blew up and bankrupted myself not adapting and had to get a real job to save up and trade again. I blew up shorting naked options on energies by the way not day trading, but it has taught me to respect risk alot , becuase before I never had respect for risk. Just kept avgin in until I brought my cost basis close enough. That doesnt work. So I basically started trading again about2 years after bankruptcy and didnt it the turtle way slow and steady. I dont want to get burnt out scalping so I am trying to get into a less stressful way trading which is longer time frames but still intraday, I like to sleep at night. So I dont hold when I am sleeping. So with fx I am definately sometimes to trigger happy with spikes trying to fade which I need to stop. When I figure it cannot go any higher since it just spiked 100 pips, the market tells me oh yes I can go another 100 pips:)
 
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