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Forum: Trading Journals July 25th, 2013, 01:21 PM
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Posted By iqgod
E for Encouragement

Thanks for the reply FXwulf.

I guess I am depressed due to the continued illness.

I feel I am "almost there" (i.e. things are working) and here I go and blow 10%+ of my account. Agreed I began...
Forum: Trading Journals July 25th, 2013, 10:32 AM
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Posted By iqgod
Thanks jmsUK. You are right, of course. ...

Thanks jmsUK. You are right, of course.

Lying in bed powerless to do anything made me want to get up and do 'something' - unfortunately by habit that something became trading. What an unnecessary...
Forum: Trading Journals July 25th, 2013, 07:50 AM
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Posted By iqgod
The Catskills

Rip Van Winkle:

Rip Van Winkle | Great Northern Catskills (http://www.greatnortherncatskills.com/arts-culture/rip-van-winkle)
Forum: Trading Journals July 25th, 2013, 07:31 AM
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Posted By iqgod
Perhaps I overreacted. By experience, the...

Perhaps I overreacted.

By experience, the essence all of living a purposeful life boils down to managing time wisely, managing yourself wisely.

The above, like trading, is simple but not easy....
Forum: Trading Journals July 25th, 2013, 06:19 AM
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Posted By iqgod
Thanks again

It is currently two steps forward and one step backward with recovery.

Just as we thought the younger one is fully recovered, here she is collapsing into my arms - my shoulders are aching with...
Forum: Trading Journals July 22nd, 2013, 06:43 AM
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Posted By iqgod
Thanks for all your good wishes

To the list I woefully have to add my elder daughter and father.

We cough and sneeze at various tempos and perform quite an orchestra.

The elder one is the most unfortunate since its exam time...
Forum: Trading Journals July 19th, 2013, 12:51 PM
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Posted By iqgod
Monsoon Blues

I am down with fever, cough and cold.

My younger daughter is down with fever.

My wife returned home early from her office a few days back, with a godawful acute pain in her stomach and has been...
Forum: Trading Journals July 16th, 2013, 07:57 AM
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Posted By iqgod
Day 3: Official Daily Trade Report from TopStepTrader

https://nexusfi.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=118865
Forum: Trading Journals July 13th, 2013, 05:26 AM
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Posted By iqgod
Day 2: Official Daily Trade Report from TopStepTrader

https://nexusfi.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=118705
Forum: Trading Journals July 12th, 2013, 04:44 AM
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Posted By iqgod
Day 1: Official Daily Trade Report from TopStepTrader

https://nexusfi.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=118601
Forum: Trading Journals July 11th, 2013, 03:34 AM
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Posted By iqgod
Earlier $150,000 combine

Here is the 20-day report of the earlier $150,000 combine I had attempted:

https://nexusfi.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=118445
Forum: Trading Journals July 11th, 2013, 03:21 AM
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Posted By iqgod
Switching Over

In the light of the recent changes that will be going live from 15th July at TST...
Forum: Trading Journals July 8th, 2013, 01:10 AM
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Posted By iqgod
Discipline, And The Lack Thereof

Today is two winners and one breakeven.

Actually if I had the guts sense to stick to my discipline of 10-tick target I would have had only a single trade today.
...
Forum: Trading Journals July 7th, 2013, 11:36 AM
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Posted By iqgod
You do not know what is going to happen next

In an earlier combine journal I wrote:

"The root cause of it all is ENTERING TOO EARLY.

Entering without following rules."

Here is what rubyslippage advised in her astute manner:
Forum: Trading Journals July 7th, 2013, 09:21 AM
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Posted By iqgod
Jurassic Park

To reiterate:

Whenever I have my focus on the trading process - i.e. trading well, then the problems all disappear!

The moment I focus on:

- statistics
- P & L
- missing out on opportunity...
Forum: Trading Journals July 7th, 2013, 09:02 AM
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Posted By iqgod
'My'ness

The redness in that red trade does not feel like my redness.

It seems like a foreign toxic additive that I am handling in a otherwise pure cocktail of correct recipes that I have painstakingly...
Forum: Trading Journals July 7th, 2013, 08:55 AM
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Posted By iqgod
Hi MarketPilot, yes very good advice indeed! ...

Hi MarketPilot, yes very good advice indeed!

The explanation of that red trade statement is that I feel the scary demons kicking and thrashing when I do not take a valid with-trend trade.

I...
Forum: Trading Journals July 7th, 2013, 08:46 AM
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Posted By iqgod
On Combines In General

First I am going to talk more of Edison and then come back to the topic of the TST combine.

The reason I am hounding you further with Edison is not because I am a masochistic journalist trying to...
Forum: Trading Journals July 7th, 2013, 08:21 AM
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Posted By iqgod
Why Keep A Journal?

From Joan Didion’s 1968 anthology 'Slouching Towards Bethlehem' comes a wonderful essay titled “On Keeping a Notebook”:

Why did I write it down? In order to remember, of course, but exactly what...
Forum: Trading Journals July 7th, 2013, 08:14 AM
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Views: 27,112
Posted By iqgod
On Being Right

I think that was a very important beam of light you cast on my internals.

The need to be right, the spring that feeds the false ego usually is the last barrier to crumble between ourselves and...
Forum: Trading Journals July 7th, 2013, 08:11 AM
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Views: 27,112
Posted By iqgod
Trading As A Business

That's a wonderful analogy!

Thanks for that!

Since we are on the subject:

I wanted to "share" something about Thomas Alva Edison. People often conjure up images of an Inventor cum Mad...
Forum: Trading Journals July 7th, 2013, 03:39 AM
Replies: 160
Views: 27,112
Posted By iqgod
Combine Day 4 (SIM): Trade 2

By waiting patiently, taking only with trend setups and not having anxiety about the outcome there is very little I can do wrong:

https://nexusfi.com/v/PReCsyaEBv.png


And I am not saying that...
Forum: Trading Journals July 7th, 2013, 03:37 AM
Replies: 160
Views: 27,112
Posted By iqgod
https://nexusfi.com/v/UsLJINeSnr.png The...

https://nexusfi.com/v/UsLJINeSnr.png

The benefits of "with trend".

Almost Always.

The new demon is:

Do I movemy stop to breakeven?
Forum: Trading Journals July 7th, 2013, 03:35 AM
Replies: 160
Views: 27,112
Posted By iqgod
First Break

A first break signal bar for an advance range break:

https://nexusfi.com/v/oYSkysAMPX.png
Forum: Trading Journals July 7th, 2013, 03:28 AM
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Views: 27,112
Posted By iqgod
I WILL NOT LOOK FOR REVERSALS

I WILL NOT LOOK FOR REVERSALS.

I WILL NOT LOOK FOR REVERSALS.

I WILL NOT LOOK FOR REVERSALS.

I WILL NOT LOOK FOR REVERSALS.

I WILL NOT LOOK FOR REVERSALS.
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