I didn't do the exact number crunching as pertained to the measured move and it was something I should've done. I was eye balling it. I thought...
You're right on controlling the losses. Today my stop saved me. In the past when I've been too complacent with stops, I used to manually exit....
+40 The stock just tanked today. I thought it would be a drop but not one this big. My loss of the day was again trying to get the second leg...
A lot of these trades, I try to get the second measured move. I usually go in when it breaks resistance or support. If there is something I'm...
I dunno but does my explanation of my losses make sense to you? I just like to hear from other price action traders and see if they can agree on...
+213 It was a last grasp attempt and I honestly had to leave this morning so no trading for me. I set an entry buy at the end of the day...
After looking at the 60 min chart, I can see why it went down on the first trade. Otherwise, I wondered why? What gives? It hit the upper trend...
-260 I got destroyed today. It was choppy with lots of overlap. I'll be have to go back to the paper for a while. Perhaps I still don't have...
I'm actually really concerned with Penson since their latest screw ups with 1099 Tax Documents is really bad. With all those errors, seems like...
I got caught in two traps today. One Bull and One Bear. One the Bull Trap, I was thinking that it had overextended itself and a pullback was at...
-26 Tough day. Although all of it is due to commissions. Got myself into a couple bad trades. I worked all day to get some of it back. I...
You're right.. it was hastily done. Usually when I traded counter trend, I would go in on an overshoot. I would set a limit order price beyond...
+26 Mixed bag today. More trading range activity but the bars didn't have too much overlap which was good. Could've held on for more gains...
Losing trade of the day. Was meant to be a small scalp with counter trend buy/sell entry. I could've gotten out with the scalp had I waited....
Correction on scalp written as: Bought Cover 119.24 Sold Short 118.26 Bought Cover 118.24 Of course when I'm away and return. The...
+24 My losing trade of the day was trying to buy at a support level. I didn't do any line calculations as I was trying to do it quickly before...
+20 A lot more of the same old channel and chop. Tough to trade on this pattern. Just getting out early now to try to build up some...
+7 With an account running on fumes, I put in just enough to be barely over 25K so did one trade only as I had to leave to attend a tax...
Thanks CLM I had the same problem with my entry today on the paper trade. Ended up same as Friday as barely positive with scalps. I didn't...
So I did the demo today and basically had the same problems with the strategy that I've been using. I eventually ended up on the plus side with...
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