has been tough for me too in the past couple of months...many of my favourite setups just dont pan out and the churn did a lot of damage to my pnl, no question...mkt is very undecided and there's a inherent lack of direction which is a killer for all of my strategies. begun to make outrageous numbers of daily trades and sure didnt help improve things..hope this shit turns around quick otherwise am cooked.
Quote from mnx:
I am so glad to see this thread started.
I am gone from the market for at least another week, but when I get back I will join in with a few posts.
Some one commented earlier about not seeing many negative days... Well they happen. I dont post every day and dont intend to... to many annoying pms... And too many people at my firm and others dying to figure out what I am doing..... Anyways back to the subject of negative days. I worked myself into a nice hole the first 4 days of august... 20k worth... not a huge hole for people like nysekiller or RM, and not that huge hole for me.... big enough to be rather annoying. that was 4 negative days in a row... ranging from -13k to -200 bux... I have been trading since january 2004 and only had 2 negative months since. May 04, August 05... we will see what happens with the rest of this month. probably be close to a scratch...
happy trading everyone.
mnx

