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Forum: Trading Reviews and Vendors January 27th, 2016, 07:40 AM
Replies: 313
Views: 223,461
Posted By Pocwave
New OFA direction and video mentoring

Disclaimer: I am not an OFA customer, I did their free trial over a year ago but did not continue it. I have continued to follow them on youtube. With the release of their new products, DB has been...
Forum: NinjaTrader July 7th, 2015, 07:22 AM
Replies: 5
Views: 2,948
Posted By Pocwave
Solution?

Did you ever find a solution for this? Thanks.
Forum: Trading Journals February 1st, 2015, 03:54 PM
Replies: 17
Views: 3,160
Posted By Pocwave
Back to work

Read and worked on psychology over the holiday time. I am in a shift transition at work. Trading my third day of a TST combine tomorrow. Day one and day two were winners. I am up $700+ on my $1500...
Forum: Trading Journals December 1st, 2014, 05:03 AM
Replies: 17
Views: 3,160
Posted By Pocwave
Purpose of the journal

I misunderstood the purpose of a trading journal. I was using it as a diary of sorts. I have recently been asked, in the context of a journal, what is my specific edge? I am working on my trade plan...
Forum: Trading Journals November 16th, 2014, 10:23 PM
Replies: 17
Views: 3,160
Posted By Pocwave
11142014

Had one trade on Friday that I found while doing this catchup homework. I went long and made a scalp, 2 points. I was doing other stuff and must have done this unintentionally, thinking it was a sim...
Forum: Trading Journals November 16th, 2014, 10:12 PM
Replies: 17
Views: 3,160
Posted By Pocwave
11132014

I let the monkey run loose today. Very poor results. The money lost is not bad, but the emotional capital took a hit.
I work nights til 3am and get up around 10 to trade. I had something that I knew...
Forum: Trading Journals November 16th, 2014, 10:07 PM
Replies: 17
Views: 3,160
Posted By Pocwave
11122014

Challenging week for me.
Computer downloaded updates overnight that wiped out most of my recent logs and the templates that I had built to record to the journal. I thought I had the updates set to...
Forum: Trading Journals November 13th, 2014, 03:56 PM
Replies: 17
Views: 3,160
Posted By Pocwave
Monkey trading today

I have to catch up on the thread. I have the work done but run low on time and energy later in my week. I work a swing shift, 5p-3a, Weds thru Saturday. I am not trading tomorrow so will catch up...
Forum: Trading Journals November 11th, 2014, 09:21 AM
Replies: 17
Views: 3,160
Posted By Pocwave
11102014

Lost money but had a good day with the monkey. Spent some time meditating and then tapping prior to the trading day. I was able to see price thru the day. Made some mistakes, including forgetting my...
Forum: Trading Journals November 6th, 2014, 05:55 PM
Replies: 17
Views: 3,160
Posted By Pocwave
Monkey trader

How do I know that I was not trading but that the monkey was?
I can't remember any of the trades. Don't remember entering, exiting, anything. I know they happened but it is like waking up hungover...
Forum: Trading Journals November 5th, 2014, 10:27 PM
Replies: 17
Views: 3,160
Posted By Pocwave
Good learning, bad trading

I will post the actual results tomorrow, but lost money(on the TST combine), which is one thing, but traded very poorly, which is worse. Multiple mental mistakes getting ready and then trading. The...
Forum: Trading Journals November 5th, 2014, 10:17 PM
Replies: 446
Views: 121,263
Posted By Pocwave
Live

Congrats.
Forum: Trading Journals November 4th, 2014, 10:08 PM
Replies: 17
Views: 3,160
Posted By Pocwave
Correct focus

In going over the trade results, I have numerous late entries. That is the symptom and I think the cause is getting caught up in watching the bars go up and down and not working hard enough to look...
Forum: Trading Journals November 4th, 2014, 05:08 PM
Replies: 17
Views: 3,160
Posted By Pocwave
Insanity, integrity, trust, the chimp and the combine

I am talking about myself in this journal, although I believe that my illness is a common one.

Insanity is doing the same thing and expecting a different result. I am creating as much conscious...
Forum: Trading Reviews and Vendors October 24th, 2014, 11:32 AM
Replies: 637
Views: 340,390
Posted By Pocwave
Errors

You mentioned Joe's list of errors. What are the top 5 errors you see traders committing while trading? Thanks.
Forum: Trading Reviews and Vendors May 28th, 2014, 07:40 AM
Replies: 16
Views: 15,306
Posted By Pocwave
Work with Steve

I have had 2 sessions with Steve so far. The sessions are similar to Faster EFT if you have done that work. The big difference, which is big, is that Steve does the internal work. I am not sure what...
Forum: Trading Journals May 11th, 2014, 06:30 PM
Replies: 14
Views: 6,645
Posted By Pocwave
welly's thread

This one.

https://nexusfi.com/elite-trading-journals/29780-day-trading-es-s-p-500-futures-contract-pats-style-1-point-time-85.html
Forum: Trading Journals May 5th, 2014, 05:05 PM
Replies: 14
Views: 6,645
Posted By Pocwave
Go to Welly's thread

Go to Welly's thread, fantastic resource.
Forum: Trading Reviews and Vendors April 16th, 2014, 08:24 AM
Replies: 16
Views: 15,306
Posted By Pocwave
1st session

I had my first session with Steve yesterday. Very powerful. I will update with trading results in a few weeks.
Forum: NinjaTrader February 4th, 2014, 06:21 PM
Replies: 8
Views: 4,434
Posted By Pocwave
Not fixed

This is not resolved as I thought it was. I have the chart now running with just the NYSE tick. I have the TVI running off the median value of the 1 minute bar. Ninjatrader running DTN IQFeed data....
Forum: NinjaTrader February 3rd, 2014, 02:58 PM
Replies: 8
Views: 4,434
Posted By Pocwave
I think I fixed it. I had a transparent ES chart...

I think I fixed it. I had a transparent ES chart running in the background. In Gutmann's book, he uses the indicator laid over an ES chart, doing so by creating a chart running both the ES and TICK...
Forum: NinjaTrader February 3rd, 2014, 02:12 PM
Replies: 8
Views: 4,434
Posted By Pocwave
Doing something wrong with this indicator

Tulanch,
Attached are 2 screenshots showing the indicator in use. I am running a chart that has a cumulative TICK indicator, that is based of Michael Gutmann's indicator from his book. That is the...
Forum: Trading Journals January 21st, 2014, 07:58 PM
Replies: 4
Views: 1,197
Posted By Pocwave
Setup

My consistent pattern is lack of preparation, so that is what I am here to work on. I have watched all of FT's webinars, many of Dalton's and many of Tim Morges, along with DB Vaello of...
Forum: NinjaTrader January 20th, 2014, 09:05 PM
Replies: 1,036
Views: 382,646
Posted By Pocwave
Toggling

I would like to be able to toggle the drawing tools on and off, like in IRT.
Forum: Trading Journals January 20th, 2014, 08:00 PM
Replies: 4
Views: 1,197
Posted By Pocwave
I had previously started a journal in the elite...

I had previously started a journal in the elite section. I ran out of integrity with that, coincidentally and not surprisingly about the same time I ran out of money. Odd that integrity and money...
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