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Psychology and Money Management
June 28th, 2019, 11:45 AM
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How to do the things you don't "feel" like doing?
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Posted By
teajay
Like today, for example... These are 5 minute...
Like today, for example... These are 5 minute bars...
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Psychology and Money Management
June 23rd, 2019, 12:27 AM
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What do you do to stop overtrading / manage trades?
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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....
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Psychology and Money Management
June 23rd, 2019, 12:15 AM
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How to do the things you don't "feel" like doing?
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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...
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Feedback and Announcements
May 31st, 2019, 08:08 PM
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NexusFi site changelog and issues/problem reporting
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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
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Selling Options on Futures?
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teajay
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Forum:
Brokers
March 23rd, 2018, 09:25 PM
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Optimus Futures trading broker review
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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...
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Traders Hideout
March 21st, 2018, 11:48 AM
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Anyone Caught in Interactive Brokers Platform Crash on 1.5.18?
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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
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Anyone Caught in Interactive Brokers Platform Crash on 1.5.18?
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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...
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Traders Hideout
March 9th, 2018, 02:50 PM
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Anyone Caught in Interactive Brokers Platform Crash on 1.5.18?
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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 -...
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Traders Hideout
March 9th, 2018, 02:20 AM
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Anyone Caught in Interactive Brokers Platform Crash on 1.5.18?
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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...
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Traders Hideout
March 5th, 2018, 08:05 PM
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Follow these two rules to preserve and grow capital
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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....
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Psychology and Money Management
March 1st, 2018, 11:59 AM
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39
How do you remain calm while in trade.
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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...
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Traders Hideout
January 8th, 2018, 12:51 PM
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Anyone Caught in Interactive Brokers Platform Crash on 1.5.18?
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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...
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Cryptocurrency
November 30th, 2017, 08:00 PM
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226
My 2 cents...
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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
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Teajay's trading journal
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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
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9
Executing mental stop loss - Strategies / Rules
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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
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Exiting the swing portion of your trade
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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
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40
FIO Journal Challenge - July 2017 (over $1,100 in prizes)
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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
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Teajay's trading journal
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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
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Teajay's trading journal
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
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Teajay's trading journal
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
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Poseidons 5 min ES Journal
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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
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28
Teajay's trading journal
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
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28
Teajay's trading journal
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
Conflicting information
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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