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i am using, and i realized that is delay 20 min, maybe go down and map green ...

Stock mapper is just one tool. I also have about 50 big cap stocks in real time plus market internals to go by.



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After a flush down- traders trading with the trend can ONLY hope for one thing- a BOUNCE to reshort. Anyone coming up levels of so called support against a trend till it is backed by PRICE ACTION , does not know a thing about trading. I learned my lesson couple of years ago when CL was trading similarly.

NOTE: Covered some around 80.48 and added back to shorts as CL bounced from 80.37 to 80.98 area.



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It does not matter which instruement is one trading- concepts and context are the same. Finally shorts in PL are working..



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ONLY shorts in TF and holding for 2 hours. Same mistake again. Should have been trading NQ instead of TF. More bang for buck with NQ since last Thursday.



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If there is a day where stop loss needs to be wide and one has to be patient- it's today. When P&L is jumping up and down to the tune of 50 ticks and one has to HOLD and ignore Jumping jack- it takes CONVICTION to do that. Only way i know to ignore NOISE is to trade with the trend.



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I have not taken any longs in CL and TF since 9 am eastern time. ONLY shorts. Obviously there were some long trades but not for me. Another thing i controlled is to add to my position during lunch hour ( 12 to 1 pm). I just held my shorts till i got paid and still holding in CL and TF. Added to TF shorts around 1051 after lunch.



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i entry here planning to hold it...and thinking short in abounce...

but i could not


could be worked...

La lucha es de igual a igual contra uno mismo
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No longs in TF. Gave up all the gains from ealier short as i kept shorting when TF moved from 1045 to 1075. How? Not a pretty day but got the job done.



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Same thing with Crude. No longs . All shorts. Luckliy no significant intra day drawdowns. I probably had best 4 days of CL trading in 4 years. Prior to making chnages in my trading days like last 4 days i will just be a SPECTATOR. Too afraid to do anything or if i took a trade , it was just successful due to random nature of my trade. I did not think my successful trades were random at the time. If i got 30 ticks within a 400 ticks opportunity, i was happy. Now, i see it was just nonsense.



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Same thing with Crude. No longs . All shorts. Luckliy no significant intra day drawdowns. I probably had best 4 days of CL trading in 4 years. Prior to making chnages in my trading days like last 4 days i will just be a SPECTATOR. Too afraid to do anything or if i took a trade , it was just successful due to random nature of my trade. I did not think my successful trades were random at the time. If i got 30 ticks within a 400 ticks opportunity, i was happy. Now, i see it was just nonsense.


CL is still moving to me. Cover some. Looking into 3 options 1) Go flat and reshort on break of 80. 2) Go flat. Go long for a bounce from 80. 3) Reshort into bounce off 80. I really like #3.




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