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I saw the same things clearly today as most of you, but i couldn't execute the reversal from the failed rocket.

(the initial rocket was a failure using settings of 12k vol, 80/20 stoch, +/-.4 macd, 9:30 chart start time....i think that's all the settings)

ok so i washed out of the rocket with a .25 loss, and even reversed at 1193.75...but as i was sitting in the trade...irrational fears about 'what if it goes back up and breaks out' overrode objective reasoning which said ' you have a channel and the BO rocket failed...and now your volume is declining....what, you think you're going to get a BO NOW????'

lol, ok so i didn't THINK those words at the time, i should have...i probably would have stayed in the reversal trade and rode it close/near the left channel line.

as it was, the fear based response took me out at BE shortly after i entered.


so here's the short of what i put together as some points

what i know.
1. i can do washes pretty well, usually .25-.50 loss
2. I can SEE the reversals but can't act and stick to them
(reason being old mental block regarding issues of entry/exits/RvR biases etc....old EDGE type mentality)
3. what i see is, to make 4 points a day, i NEED to be able to reverse @ the failure of the rocket to BO

anyone have a solution? i was thinking paper trading till i can do the reversals and have built up the conscious and subconscious 'faith' in reversing...then go back to live with that faith/belief set.
 
Dantheman,
I mostly papertrade, still just enter with real money once in a while. But I think it´s very difficult to reverse fast even if it´s not real money, it´s stressfull. Why don´t you just fade the rockets, just play them that way? in this market i think that kind of trade has a higher probability.
 
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anyone have a solution? i was thinking paper trading till i can do the reversals and have built up the conscious and subconscious 'faith' in reversing...then go back to live with that faith/belief set.

Do some four steppers!!

I'd recommend using the debriefing instructions that I just posted for tx, but I haven't used them yet and don't quite understand them. I think they would be helpful, but, that's an intuitive feel.
 

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bar 43... we just established a point 3 on the long channel, we are up against the RTL of the ST short channel, these two form a pennant, and we are hovering over where the LT channel began the day... can't wait to see how this plays out.

It's noon CST so I will step away from the computer for an hour as I should have done yesterday...
 

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Quote from BA_Trader: Trends overlap. I didn't really ever see it until today.
BA, do you mind posting a chart? I'd like to make sure I'm seeing what you are seeing.
 
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BA, do you mind posting a chart? I'd like to make sure I'm seeing what you are seeing.
Hmmmm... I think I'd have to post about 2 years worth of charts to show you what I'm seeing :D

Seriously - it was one of those moments of understanding... I had that belief about overlap tucked away in my mind for a long time and now I can actually USE it.

Like most of this stuff - you open your mind to the belief and then add a generous helping of screen time to "get it" -- at least that's the way it has gone for me.

J
 
I was in and out doing errands today, so most of this is hindsight drawing.

Interesting day... I think some more things are beginning to gel for me.

Anthony
 

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