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Reminds me when I was a discretionary trader. "WTF was I thinking?" was a regular phrase written on my charts at the end of many days. Hope you get the normal mojo back by tomorrow.
I used to think it every day, thankfully I don't have to say that very often any more but it still happens. I suppose being human, I won't be able to be perfect 100% of the time....whats different about this time as opposed to all the other times is that I have a winning (short to be sure) record and I know I will recover tomorrow. I'm not worried.
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication, Leonardo da Vinci
Most people chose unhappiness over uncertainty, Tim Ferris
following your chronicle for a while now and just now that your comments have got briefer, I've started looking more at the chart mark-up and I guess I should know but it still isn't obvious - you mark you trades with an arrow and the number of points made, right - is that the entry bar or the exit bar or is it both on one bar? So I couldn't work out what your comment referred to when you mentioned almost selling the top. Apart from that, the chart is a bit crowded but still readable.
You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
Yes the posts have gotten shorter...I've grown tired of hearing myself talk about myself....I find its pretty boring.
As to the arrows. The arrows mark the close of the bar. In other words, if an arrow is pointing down, then I went short at the break of that close. The ticks are net after commissions.
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication, Leonardo da Vinci
Most people chose unhappiness over uncertainty, Tim Ferris
Well, I got killed today. I did a terrible job on execution, entry identification and on the trades I had right, I had trouble holding them because of the choppy nature.
I tried a variation on a theme today and it bombed disastrously. Tried to get cute basically. Back to what works.
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication, Leonardo da Vinci
Most people chose unhappiness over uncertainty, Tim Ferris
tuff day for sure...i had very similar trades..alot of trend lines...the +23, was just a breakdown?Isee on my chart, it broke thru an ascending trendline and, the bottom of the prior swing low.
Wow, That's Fantastic! was I thinking.
