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Forum: Psychology and Money Management June 28th, 2019, 11:45 AM
Replies: 12
Views: 2,409
Posted By teajay
Like today, for example... These are 5 minute...

Like today, for example... These are 5 minute bars...

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Forum: Psychology and Money Management June 23rd, 2019, 12:27 AM
Replies: 69
Views: 11,131
Posted By teajay
Things that have worked for me, a series of rules...

Things that have worked for me, a series of rules that somewhat built on top of each other, just in case..

1) Plan to only make ~3-4 trades a day. Ask yourself, is this one of the best setups....
Forum: Psychology and Money Management June 23rd, 2019, 12:15 AM
Replies: 12
Views: 2,409
Posted By teajay
I do something very similar. I have a rule to not...

I do something very similar. I have a rule to not trade in the middle of the day in the middle of the day’s range. If at any point in the first couple hours I’ve seen both short and long setups...
Forum: Feedback and Announcements May 31st, 2019, 08:08 PM
Replies: 3,855
Views: 1,160,133
Posted By teajay
No convincing argument here, don’t even recall...

No convincing argument here, don’t even recall disabling it in the first place :)



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Forum: Options November 18th, 2018, 05:19 PM
Replies: 7,370
Views: 1,952,051
Posted By teajay
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Forum: Brokers March 23rd, 2018, 09:25 PM
Replies: 668
Views: 303,853
Posted By teajay
It shouldn't come as a surprise, but mattz has...

It shouldn't come as a surprise, but mattz has yet another satisfied customer. After experiencing issues again with IB this week I decided to look around for a second broker and platform to split my...
Forum: Traders Hideout March 21st, 2018, 11:48 AM
Replies: 18
Views: 6,482
Posted By teajay
So pragmatic matt... Sometimes it's just fun to...

So pragmatic matt... Sometimes it's just fun to complain ;)
Forum: Traders Hideout March 21st, 2018, 11:28 AM
Replies: 18
Views: 6,482
Posted By teajay
Boy am I glad I decided to be flat today (FOMC...

Boy am I glad I decided to be flat today (FOMC day)... Haven't been able to sign in to IB TWS for the past 20 minutes on either my mobile or desktop. System status is all green on their site. This...
Forum: Traders Hideout March 9th, 2018, 02:50 PM
Replies: 18
Views: 6,482
Posted By teajay
Realize we're at risk of hijacking this thread...

Realize we're at risk of hijacking this thread for stuff that should maybe be in broker reviews, so apologies...

IB have generally been pretty good for me, but I have such basic requirements -...
Forum: Traders Hideout March 9th, 2018, 02:20 AM
Replies: 18
Views: 6,482
Posted By teajay
Arrrgggg

Interactive Brokers has really taken the cake this time... I just got a e-mail alert saying my account was down ~20k. Freak out because I shouldn't have any open positions - sign in and in fact see...
Forum: Traders Hideout March 5th, 2018, 08:05 PM
Replies: 11
Views: 4,779
Posted By teajay
Bob, I agree with your whipsaw principle....

Bob, I agree with your whipsaw principle. Sometimes an idea is still good and you just gotta take another swing at it. If thats wrong, then absolutely, walk away for a bit and find another setup....
Forum: Psychology and Money Management March 1st, 2018, 11:59 AM
Replies: 39
Views: 7,962
Posted By teajay
Hand off the mouse... need to print that and...

Hand off the mouse... need to print that and leave it somewhere. :) I suffer the same thing so badly, in particular with winners. Enter bracket order with entry, stop and profit target. Watch trade...
Forum: Traders Hideout January 8th, 2018, 12:51 PM
Replies: 18
Views: 6,482
Posted By teajay
I also experienced the outage on Friday. I was...

I also experienced the outage on Friday. I was lucky to be flat as well (been taking cold meds and cant trust anything my brain tells me). It was frustrating because their status pages said all was...
Forum: Cryptocurrency November 30th, 2017, 08:00 PM
Replies: 226
Views: 50,673
Posted By teajay
That was at the very least an entertaining...

That was at the very least an entertaining article. Thanks for sharing.

I particularly enjoyed the bit about people with big piles of dumbass money are probably not dumbasses

Sent using the...
Forum: Trading Journals November 3rd, 2017, 05:31 PM
Replies: 28
Views: 4,856
Posted By teajay
Status for October

I've spent the past couple months trading NQ exclusively using naked charts and Al Brooks price action methods... Here were the results for the month of October. I keep everything in a spreadsheet...
Forum: Psychology and Money Management November 3rd, 2017, 05:16 PM
Replies: 9
Views: 2,309
Posted By teajay
Personally I've had to force myself to make a...

Personally I've had to force myself to make a real critical evaluation of where the stop needs to be, enter the stop when my entry gets filled, and walk away... It's all part of having a plan for...
Forum: Emini and Emicro Index August 20th, 2017, 12:49 PM
Replies: 2
Views: 1,206
Posted By teajay
Exiting the swing portion of your trade

I've recently begun adding a swing portion to some of my early morning trades. The concept is the same that Brooks outlines in Reading Price Charts Bar By Bar. Buy two contracts, scalp one for a...
Forum: Feedback and Announcements August 1st, 2017, 03:18 PM
Replies: 40
Views: 20,500
Posted By teajay
Nice work everyone... Congrats to the winners,...

Nice work everyone... Congrats to the winners, and I want to say I really enjoyed the contest.
Forum: Trading Journals July 27th, 2017, 06:23 PM
Replies: 28
Views: 4,856
Posted By teajay
7-27 ES

Only one trade to write about today as I only had a bit of time to sit in front of the computer.

This will also be my last journal entry for the July competition as I am going to be away tomorrow...
Forum: Trading Journals July 26th, 2017, 08:12 PM
Replies: 28
Views: 4,856
Posted By teajay
7/26

No trades today - market was too tight for any entries in the morning and I just gave up on looking for the afternoon.
Forum: Trading Journals July 25th, 2017, 07:16 PM
Replies: 28
Views: 4,856
Posted By teajay
7-25 ES

One trade to write about today with both a scalp and swing portion to it...

Massive gap higher on the open today. Two legged correction down towards the EMA. Didn't quite reach it when the High2...
Forum: Trading Journals July 25th, 2017, 02:47 PM
Replies: 296
Views: 36,046
Posted By teajay
Enjoy the break. Enjoyed reading your journal. ...

Enjoy the break. Enjoyed reading your journal.

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Forum: Trading Journals July 24th, 2017, 11:54 PM
Replies: 28
Views: 4,856
Posted By teajay
7-23 ES

Three trades today. Two losers and one breakeven.

Trade 1 (-1.25pts):
Bear channel had been established. Sell off a Low3 (was tough to count, but this is my best guess) after bouncing off top...
Forum: Trading Journals July 21st, 2017, 07:12 PM
Replies: 28
Views: 4,856
Posted By teajay
7-21

A couple trades today that resulted in a breakeven day for me and a couple bucks for IB :)

Context was a gap open lower - not a ton of reason I could see, except perhaps cooling down from a couple...
Forum: Traders Hideout July 21st, 2017, 06:47 PM
Replies: 21
Views: 9,969
Posted By teajay
Love the idea of writing a thread to distract you...

Love the idea of writing a thread to distract you from poor trades :)

I've recently gotten aggressive in simplifying the display. I used to have 4 charts open simultaneously - 1, 5, 15 minute and...
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