A definite spin my wheels day.... didn't force things, and nothing came. I did give myself a chance with some "sort of ok" entries, but nothing was cooking today. Try again tomorrow. I have definitely slowed down the pace a bit, and am trying to give my trades a chance. But not too much of a chance.
Very nice trade management. Looks like night and day compared to your earlier charts. Keep up the good work!
Another so so day. Got stopped out of one decent trade, and misjudged on a couple of others. But, I am getting some encouragement to get a plan and stick to it, and not be jumpy. And I believe I am doing that, following the plan, that is. Now, I just need to get better plans. Was almost a coin toss as to whether to go long or fade the breakout. Price action in the futures made me finally decide long.. so, that is what I did.
Monday........ all day. Didn't do much. Went short early, had a slightly better than 1:1 profit. Chose not to take it. Never got as good a chance again. Everytime I said.. "ok I'll take .xx if I see it again... well, I never saw .xx again. Finally stopped out even. Went long later. This time I said if I saw a decent 1:1, I'll take it. Saw what I wanted for a brief moment. And fouled up my order entry. Price went back to my buy point and I stopped out even. Gotta think about this stopping out even. Both cases I could have gotten something ok if I stayed with it. But.... sure as heck, the first time I give it a little more room..... well... you know what will happen. It will take a little more room, stop me out, then go my way. No charts tonight, trying to install DSL. Here is the spreadsheet of the two trades.
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Only made 1 QQQ trade late in the day. 13:48 sold sh 23.35 14:02 covered 23.48 -.13 Missed a couple of decent opportunities early... just hesitated too much. Spent most of my time getting my DSL up and running. Seems to be working fine.