long nq buying dips
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1. taking a fast small profit is like getting a bunch of likes or congrats or ur a great trader talk very rapidly. it also licks in your winning feelings but they quickly turn into omg ibeould have made 500 or 5000 or 50000 if i held for another hour or 2.
it is the year 2020 if you are still using old school technical analysis good luck wake up and use some real technology

thanksThere is so much gold in this thread. I really liked the analogy you made with closing short gains: tons of facebook likes. Closing short losses: feeling like a loser, and dragging out losses: not feeling like a loser.
I experienced this myself, a couple of days I did EXACTLY THIS with some trades that went against me. First, I got into a trade that looked like it could go to the upside, but I got whipsawed a few moments after opening and closed right away at a small loss (which was the right thing to do; the position went waaay lower) and felt horrible. I still don't like that I did it. But just a few days prior, I let a loser become way too big (relatively), and dragged it out for way longer than I should have, until finally closing it. Although this latter loss was much bigger, it did not pain me as much as the first one. Which is completely stupid: I am basically chaining myself to have a negative expectation in the long term by letting small losses become big losses... But, well, practice helps see where my mistakes are.
By the way, you mentioned this above. How do you approach this? I also saw in another thread that you have someone do some data analysis for you. I guess this is also a way in which you create your own technical analysis "tools", right?
I am currently doing my study in Econometrics (Quantitative Finance), so I have some familiarity with looking at data, trying to find patterns and trying to see how/when they work. So, from the data analysis, you can get your own "signals". As in classical TA, you use this signal to see where a trade might be made, but you still need to factor in some market understanding to finally pull the trigger... Is this somehow similiar to the way you do analysis in your trades?
Any advice in how to approach this? Besides, you know, practicing a lot?![]()