Hello All,

No charts in this entry just a summary update. I still cannot believe it! Somehow, last night, and I don't know how, I left an open order on the chart. When I finally realized it, I was so far down I couldn't believe it. Instead of taking a huge loss and following my plan which would have kept my TST account alive, I elected to add to my "losing trade" in order to lower my entry price and attempt to minimize my loss or hopefully get out at breakeven. In frustration, I said to myself, "I will either save it or blow it." I left the computer and if any of you saw the 6E last night it just tanked and along with it my Combine. So I restarted the Combine this morning while I was still on "tilt". Of course, NOT being in the proper mindset yet, made me the "fish" in the market today. So, while I was still "angry" and with no "common sense" I entered a trade and immediately lost. Then with my revenge mindset still in charge, I immediately entered another trade and was down almost instantly. However, some how at this point, I finally came to my senses, closed the trade, took a small loss, left the computer and stopped trading for the day. Now, I am down about $240 which is nothing and I will live to fight another day.

Being honest, my mindset is still not where it should be, so I am going to spend some time with the Lord, relax and not think about trading until the morning. I will also catch up on reading everyone's journals then, when my mindset has been totally rebooted so to speak. I hope everyone else had a "Great trading day!"

If you learn anything from reading this brief post at all, it should be that the most important ingredients to being successful in trading are your mental outlook or mindset as well as your discipline to follow your plan and not your emotions. Really, reading the charts is the simple part of trading in my humble opinion!

I had to leave to pick up my daughter and do some shopping, and I didn't want to leave a 15 tick stop and target, so I adjusted both back to 10 tick stop and 10 tick target so $100 to start the day. I always like the little cushion going into the morning and there is usually a trade setup near the opening of the market at 6:00 pm EST. It just may take forever to close but that is okay.

Most importantly for my security concerns though, I am going to store the info on a USB drive and keep it separate from my computer which should take care of the potential security problem and I will require a password to access the documents. In addition, I will not put any personal information on the USB drive or computer.

Thank you all for your support!

As computer engineer I should warn you. Don't buy cheap chinese usb drive. Best choice I'd suggest you is Western Digital. Any "My passport" drives from them its perfect for all your needs. Look for ones that have a in-built password protection which is a hardware protection and way less likely to fail at any random point.