Trader P/L 2010

+$450 Day
+$2420 Week

Crude opened off a mild pre-market downtrend and so I had pretty strong short bias (like when don’t I?). I ended up scalping instead of trusting any particular trade to follow through because the price action was so whippy. I put on a trade and had a big picture view of where price should go, but was unable to relax and trust the trend, moving stops too soon and leaving perfectly valid targets on the table. I took a break to clear my head, returned and saw a setup that with all my heart I felt would be stopped out because of all the thinking I did, but it was a valid with-trend setup (never too low to short) and so I reluctantly put on the trade, put in the stop and target and sat on my damn hands. Voila! Target lifted! Made more in that one trade than in the other 8 trades combined, hopefully cementing a lesson in my head.

I likely am unable to trade any more today (recording session later), if by chance I do will post update.

Have a great weekend!
 

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traded badly, don't know why i'm frozen this morning, dare not take action, mayb afraid that it is a trap.

- avg down today again, though ready to cut loss, but i must stop this avg down!!!
- hold too demn long!!! Must cut loss, sell for profit or cut loss!!!

Maybe today is monday, still in hibernate mode
 
-$167 ($88 of it commissions)

I noticed after my first trade that commissions were lower, which must've fired a message in my brain that said "You can trade so much more now that commissions are lower! You can trade so much today that you'll be able to break every one of your trading rules except one!"
 

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