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The first trade today was a loser .. got one of those aberrant fills that came close to hitting my max daily loss limit .. thought I didn't have much to lose so I switched to MES ..
only traded 1 MES contract so I had breathing room ..
at the end of the session, I was still red .. but had regained about 35% of the losses from that first trade .. 91 ticks earned trading MES .. thought that was pretty good
this is 3 red days in a row .. dangerously close to blowing up this PA account .. gotta be careful .. probably trade MES for the next few days to gain a buffer ..
.. you don't have to be the first one at the party .. just be part of the party ..
I was profitable about $2800 when the wheels fell off a few days ago .. had a couple of red days but put together several green days and got back to +$2900 .. then had three red days in a row .. so back to about +$1400 .. so that leaves the account about $1300 over the $50,100 auto-liquidate / fail balance ..
the account is with APEX .. one of the $50K accounts
the starting auto-liquidate balance was $47500 but increased as the account balance increased ..
the auto-liquidate balance was frozen once the account balance exceeded $50,100 ..
the current account balance has breathing room but no room for error ..
.. you don't have to be the first one at the party .. just be part of the party ..
10.24.2023 - start off well, messed up mid way, walked away
10.25.2023 - good day overall, kept emotions in check
I've been working on not firing from the hip, taking the losses well and not just hoping on any fast price bump on a particular candle going either way. I was able to walk away/ take breaks these past two day ... hopefully this is something I can keep doing.
Thank you for sharing your journey online, I'm on a similar one and I appreciate seeing that I'm not the only one having ups and downs on this trading journey
I would like to ask yu one question about one of your indicators. What is the indicator's name that provides the labeled levels on your chart?
Is it XT News Pro?- The one that shows the OR-mid and OR-High on the chart and in the Data Box
Version 2.2 January 31, 2018
The Opening Range is the range obtained from the highest and lowest price of a security during the first minutes of daily trading activity. For example the opening range can be calculated from the first 5, 15 or 30 minutes.
The …
Got caught in the PA after the 7 am news drop. I didnt follow my rule of not trading till 5 mins after. I think that would of saved me from tilting. It was an escalation, I could of avoided ... i kept thinking about my p/l, I was about 300 away from passing the eval, and I just rushed everything. In the end I was only able to salvage 3 of my accounts... trialing threshold is about -1000.
I've put in a trading time out for after two failed trades. The idea is to get me use to taking breaks. I think this will keep me from touching my max size position.
I need to remember, contract size and unrealistic expectations are the two things that hinders me. I got some new account with the 90% sale. I wasn't able to keep my red days small, I will try again next month.
I fomo in hopes of catching a big breakout .. ugh disappointing, this is not how I want to trade. I need focus on the trade setup,
and not chase price.
