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Good day Sir. I want to take this opportunity to thank you for creating and running this site and to all of the contributors for the indicators shared and all of the other tremendous information this site has to offer. There are so many good indicators here that the price for the Elite membership is a steal of a deal. This site is a must for any trader. I have started to trade again on the currencies and from the 25th Jan. to today 3rd Feb I have taken 64 trades and only made $290 though I have an 84% win ratio. I had 54 winners ($1676.25) and 10 losers ($1386.25). My problem is allowing some of my losers to run for too long $468.75; $168.75:$112.5;$331.5 while cutting my winners short between $25 & $50 and overtrading last week (49 trades). If I can change this phycology and mentality asap I will be successful 3rd time around having lost about $10k in my previous 2 attempts including the cost of paid software and training (Shadowtraders & Ninjacators) Thanks again

P.S:I would like to enter and contribute to the 2 ongoing challenges but I am not sure of how to go about it. Please advise

Anand Jagdeo

Hi @Anand Jagdeo,

To enter the challenge competition, you need to do the following things:

1. Open up a trading journal thread on nexusfi.com, if you don't have one already. This will be a thread where you enter the information about your trades that you want to record -- whatever you like, anything that you think will help you in your trading. Usually people note their trades, show charts, and otherwise explain what they did.

2. Make a post here, in this thread where you are reading this, giving the link to your journal. This will be the only time you will need to post in this thread.

3. Post in your journal thread (not here) as you trade.... again, whatever information you want in the journal. The process of having a journal is meant to help you improve your trading, so make it valuable for you.

4. Other members who want to have a look at what you are doing in your journal will be able to click on the link you have provided in this thread, and will then go over to your journal thread. If they find it helpful, or like it for any other reason, they can click on the Thanks button on one of your posts in that thread, and the total number of Thanks you receive will be your score for the competition.

The rules and the procedures are spelled out in the first post of this thread, by @Big Mike. Click here to go to that post, where it is all explained. Read down to the How to Participate and Rules sections:



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I don't know if it is to late to enter the contest but will provide my link below just in case it isn't. It has been awhile since I kept a journal here on nexusfi.com but have been struggling lately and have always found it helpful to do so. The accountability, keeping things simple and getting back to the basics is always good for me. I currently am trading the following micro instruments if you are interested in following my progress: MES, MNQ, M2K, MYM and MGC. I will begin posting my live trades tomorrow. Here is the link:



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I don't know if it is to late to enter the contest but will provide my link below just in case it isn't. It has been awhile since I kept a journal here on nexusfi.com but have been struggling lately and have always found it helpful to do so. The accountability, keeping things simple and getting back to the basics is always good for me. I currently am trading the following micro instruments if you are interested in following my progress: MES, MNQ, M2K, MYM and MGC. I will begin posting my live trades tomorrow. Here is the link:



Thank you!

It is not too late. The challenge is running all of February.

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Congratulations to everyone that is participating so far! And for those that have not yet created a journal and/or submitted their journal to this thread, please do so now! You still have plenty of time to participate in the event.

And remember, if you are not writing a journal, we still need your participation by using the "Thanks" button as you read through the various threads written by the authors mentioned in this thread. This is how the challenge winners will be decided.

At this exact moment, here is how it looks for the participators so far...

Journal Challenge February 2021 results (so far):



Total participants: 14

Rules considered by the system:
  • Owner of the journal must submit their journal link in the main event thread
  • Only posts made during the event will be considered, regardless of the date the journal was created
  • Winners are determined by the number of Thanks Received on eligible posts
  • In the event of a tie, the timestamp of the journal submission link will be the tiebreaker (so submit early!)
  • Site Moderators and Site Sponsors are ineligible
  • You are only eligible to win a prize in this event if you have not won any futures io prize during the last three events

Ranked 1st, @SBtrader82 received 72 thanks from 16 posts in February in their thread:




Ranked 2nd, @Mtype received 14 thanks from 8 posts in February in their thread:




Ranked 3rd, @peanuts1956 received 9 thanks from 9 posts in February in their thread:




Ranked 4th, @iqgod received 9 thanks from 4 posts in February in their thread:




Ranked 5th, @BoltTrader received 7 thanks from 17 posts in February in their thread:




Ranked 6th, @TraderNeo received 6 thanks from 18 posts in February in their thread:




Ranked 7th, @CfreeZ received 5 thanks from 5 posts in February in their thread:




Ranked 8th, @Sandpaddict received 3 thanks from 7 posts in February in their thread:




Ranked 9th, @dsulli6 received 2 thanks from 5 posts in February in their thread:




Ranked 10th, @rossco received 2 thanks from 2 posts in February in their thread:




Ranked 11th, @jmp470 received 2 thanks from 11 posts in February in their thread:




Ranked 12th, @fxpro312 received 2 thanks from 1 posts in February in their thread:




Ranked 13th, @qwachu received 1 thanks from 8 posts in February in their thread:




Ranked 14th, @aBuzz54 received 0 thanks from 1 posts in February in their thread:






Thank you to everyone so far...

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 JoeyZaza 
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Hi Traders... Let's try this again.. Here is my trading journal



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 Deetee 
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Hi everybody,

I'm also joining the contest

Please check out my new journal. The idea is that based on the first 30 minutes of the DAX future (9:00-9:30 CET) I take a trade with fixed entry and exit times and with a predefined SL. Based on historical data/statistics. Please see my journal for more information and don't forget to hit the thanks button there



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Experience: Advanced
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Posts: 50,397 since Jun 2009
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Thanks Received: 101,537

Congratulations to everyone that is participating so far!

And remember, if you are not writing a journal, we still need your participation by using the "Thanks" button as you read through the various threads written by the authors mentioned in this thread. This is how the challenge winners will be decided.

At this exact moment, here is how it looks for the participators so far...

Journal Challenge February 2021 results (so far):



Total participants: 16

Rules considered by the system:
  • Owner of the journal must submit their journal link in the main event thread
  • Only posts made during the event will be considered, regardless of the date the journal was created
  • Winners are determined by the number of Thanks Received on eligible posts
  • In the event of a tie, the timestamp of the journal submission link will be the tiebreaker (so submit early!)
  • Site Moderators and Site Sponsors are ineligible
  • You are only eligible to win a prize in this event if you have not won any futures io prize during the last three events

Ranked 1st, @SBtrader82 received 116 thanks from 22 posts in February in their thread:




Ranked 2nd, @iqgod received 61 thanks from 15 posts in February in their thread:




Ranked 3rd, @Mtype received 50 thanks from 18 posts in February in their thread:




Ranked 4th, @peanuts1956 received 19 thanks from 12 posts in February in their thread:




Ranked 5th, @Deetee received 18 thanks from 9 posts in February in their thread:




Ranked 6th, @TraderNeo received 13 thanks from 22 posts in February in their thread:




Ranked 7th, @JoeyZaza received 8 thanks from 5 posts in February in their thread:




Ranked 8th, @BoltTrader received 7 thanks from 26 posts in February in their thread:




Ranked 9th, @CfreeZ received 5 thanks from 5 posts in February in their thread:




Ranked 10th, @rossco received 3 thanks from 2 posts in February in their thread:




Ranked 11th, @Sandpaddict received 3 thanks from 7 posts in February in their thread:




Ranked 12th, @dsulli6 received 2 thanks from 5 posts in February in their thread:




Ranked 13th, @jmp470 received 2 thanks from 12 posts in February in their thread:




Ranked 14th, @fxpro312 received 2 thanks from 1 posts in February in their thread:




Ranked 15th, @qwachu received 1 thanks from 15 posts in February in their thread:




Ranked 16th, @aBuzz54 received 0 thanks from 1 posts in February in their thread:






Thank you to everyone who is participating!

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dbreen1
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the money is what kicks in the emotion and causes traders to begin trading erratically and too frequently ( I speak from experience ). If you can learn to trade well for the sake of trading, money will follow.

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Posts: 6 since Feb 2021
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I may have to participate in the next challenge, but this has opened up my eyes to the utility of looking through others journals and share learning experience (wisdom)!

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Experience: Advanced
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Congrats to everyone! The Journal Challenge has now come to an end, for now at least. There will be another one soon, so stay tuned...

Journal Challenge February 2021 results:



Total participants: 16

Rules considered by the system:
  • Owner of the journal must submit their journal link in the main event thread
  • Only posts made during the event will be considered, regardless of the date the journal was created
  • Winners are determined by the number of Thanks Received on eligible posts
  • In the event of a tie, the timestamp of the journal submission link will be the tiebreaker (so submit early!)
  • Site Moderators and Site Sponsors are ineligible
  • You are only eligible to win a prize in this event if you have not won any futures io prize during the last three events

Ranked 1st, @SBtrader82 received 172 thanks from 31 posts in February in their thread:




Ranked 2nd, @iqgod received 120 thanks from 33 posts in February in their thread:




Ranked 3rd, @Mtype received 68 thanks from 25 posts in February in their thread:




Ranked 4th, @Deetee received 35 thanks from 17 posts in February in their thread:




Ranked 5th, @peanuts1956 received 23 thanks from 13 posts in February in their thread:




Ranked 6th, @TraderNeo received 14 thanks from 22 posts in February in their thread:




Ranked 7th, @JoeyZaza received 14 thanks from 13 posts in February in their thread:




Ranked 8th, @BoltTrader received 8 thanks from 26 posts in February in their thread:




Ranked 9th, @qwachu received 7 thanks from 22 posts in February in their thread:




Ranked 10th, @CfreeZ received 5 thanks from 5 posts in February in their thread:




Ranked 11th, @rossco received 3 thanks from 2 posts in February in their thread:




Ranked 12th, @Sandpaddict received 3 thanks from 7 posts in February in their thread:




Ranked 13th, @dsulli6 received 2 thanks from 5 posts in February in their thread:




Ranked 14th, @jmp470 received 2 thanks from 12 posts in February in their thread:




Ranked 15th, @fxpro312 received 2 thanks from 1 posts in February in their thread:




Ranked 16th, @aBuzz54 received 0 thanks from 1 posts in February in their thread:






Thank you to everyone who participated! The winners will be contacted via direct message shortly.

Mike

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