Quote from bighog:
Nod, What is going on with ALL of our food? I mean even fruits and veggies are not nearly as tasty, juicy, sweet etc as before. I am always amazed when i have not had a particular candy bar for instance for x number of years and decide to munch on one and the flavor is not even close to how good it was before. Kind of disapointing to say the least. Example: BRACHS bridge mix, used to be great, now nasty. The good ingredients are long gone to bring out a cheaper product with the same name. Shameful. 
Keep working on the trading.
I know what you mean. I ate an M&M the other day, first one in years. It was a foul tasting POS. I KNOW they didn't taste like plastic-coasted, sugared-up wax when I was a kid, did they?
Quality's gone out the window. It's all about how cheap can we make it and still call it "X"?
I eat almost all organic or food from friends' gardens. Almost no processed foods at all.
Still working on the trading, all sim today, because although I've been making sim $$ hand over fist scalping ES small moves with large positions, I would not feel comfortable trading that size live, and so I'm working on managing small trades for 2 or more points. The problem is I grab 1 or 2 points per trade because in these narrow range days I can't find a comfort zone that says, "Hang on to this position."
Maybe that's the best you can do when day trading narrow range days like this.
I'm also still sim trading crude oil, with great success in pre-market especially.
I had a couple nice pre-market trades for +$685, then shortly after the open I had to take care of some things, but just before I left I went long crude in sim @ 75.31 five minutes before the inventory numbers. I had no idea the report was due at 10 a.m. because when I checked my Economic Calendar pre-market a typo posted crude inventories @ 14:00 p.m. (it was corrected later). My position became profitable immediately and I moved my stop to b/e and was stopped out b/e about 3 mins before the news spiked it above 76.00. If that was a live trade and it went the opposite way with that kind of speed, the slippage alone wouldâve killed me.
Later, figuring there were a lot of trapped shorts, I later went long 2 cars crude as it hit the HOD @ 76.27, sold @ 76.50 just under 20 seconds later and made $460 sim dollars.
Next crude strategy I used was as it pulled back toward the EMA from new highs on the day. I executed a short scalp to catch a piece of the downward momentum for +$129 in 1 second.
Still working on the ATS, testing the best methods of managing the trade. Mr. NoD developed a nifty stop management strategy that keeps you in the trade until a major pivot occurs, but it's still being debugged.
Alternatively, we're planning to test fixed stop/target strategies with 1:2, 1:3 and 1:4 R:R.
Do you smoke? Food will not taste as good if you are a smoker.