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July 25th, 2013, 01:21 PM
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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...
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July 25th, 2013, 10:32 AM
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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...
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July 25th, 2013, 07:50 AM
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The Catskills
Rip Van Winkle:
Rip Van Winkle | Great Northern Catskills (http://www.greatnortherncatskills.com/arts-culture/rip-van-winkle)
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July 25th, 2013, 07:31 AM
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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....
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July 25th, 2013, 06:19 AM
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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...
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July 22nd, 2013, 06:43 AM
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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...
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July 19th, 2013, 12:51 PM
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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...
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July 16th, 2013, 07:57 AM
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Day 3: Official Daily Trade Report from TopStepTrader
https://nexusfi.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=118865
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July 13th, 2013, 05:26 AM
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Day 2: Official Daily Trade Report from TopStepTrader
https://nexusfi.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=118705
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July 12th, 2013, 04:44 AM
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Day 1: Official Daily Trade Report from TopStepTrader
https://nexusfi.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=118601
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July 11th, 2013, 03:34 AM
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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
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July 11th, 2013, 03:21 AM
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Switching Over
In the light of the recent changes that will be going live from 15th July at TST...
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July 8th, 2013, 01:10 AM
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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.
...
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July 7th, 2013, 11:36 AM
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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:
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July 7th, 2013, 09:21 AM
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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...
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July 7th, 2013, 09:02 AM
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'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...
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July 7th, 2013, 08:55 AM
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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...
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July 7th, 2013, 08:46 AM
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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...
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July 7th, 2013, 08:21 AM
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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...
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July 7th, 2013, 08:14 AM
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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...
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July 7th, 2013, 08:11 AM
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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...
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July 7th, 2013, 03:39 AM
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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...
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July 7th, 2013, 03:37 AM
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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?
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July 7th, 2013, 03:35 AM
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First Break
A first break signal bar for an advance range break:
https://nexusfi.com/v/oYSkysAMPX.png
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July 7th, 2013, 03:28 AM
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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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