Cute dog, my cat after awhile when I was much younger, cat would crap in my slippers from the yelling-had to put them in a drawer. hmmm the slippers and not the cat.
Maybe it is just doing this many years, but don't get angry like first twenty years, I get more of a frustration of having to wait longer. I don't think in terms of losing, am very optimistic that each trade is more likely to not lose based on all the work that went into making the Trading Plan for that system, do have losses, cost of trading. I stopped making systems for scalping and day trading shooting for most profits which I believe is negative for my brain-that would become an expectation and let down when so many outcomes I receive one tick although this is very good money to me but not points, I concentrate on seldom losing whether scalping or going to long term trades. And going to automation, never even check it now till end of the day, it is more like the coffee maker going on-just stopped thinking about it.
Each signal has a max time for being in negative territory, and at end of time cycle, new targets are plus one tick, so entries from ave down, actually gives me very nice profits, and sideways action-again is not making profits, stops are put in at that plus one tick. And yes, days of where all the signals get one tick happens, but then am not losing which is what am concentrating on. Often times profitable trades don't hand around, you get in and Bamm they start moving in your direction, but for me-I give so much time and not moving-I find it time to get one tick.
To me, manual trading is accepting I am a machine, piece of code with no brains, once you memorize all the rules, am a four way street light and it is automated- green-go, yellow-go faster, red-get a tick.
