this is the low point of my 18 month trading career: losing confidence in a trade that i had extreme conviction about because of a post on ET.
i NEVER look @ ET when i'm in a trade. i shorted 44 ES @ 3.20pm and short 5 DAX @ 6114.70. my target for both was 3 pionts above low of the day (btw, this is VERY large size for me- i was that confident).
like a ass clown, i checked the ES thread 2 c if anyone had posted a chart contrary to my thinking. saw a post from ANEK saying he thinks we're heading up thru the close and..... IT INFLUENCED ME. i bailed @ 1207 and 6107.
30 years investing, and i've never been influenced by anyone on a trade b4. i don't know what it's like to be ass raped in prison, but i imagine that i'd still feel cleaner and more like a man after the experience than i do now.
IB's random account updates fucked up the blotter, so this is wrong. was up 9,022 last night and lost 2,100 today.
now, you'll have to excuse me, as i traded my balls for a vagina and i'm going to go try to get them back...