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Good day to go max size all day.
Well not good for the heart thou!!
Well not good for the heart thou!!
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That would be two contracts for me then
Gee its hard to trade big moves like this when you are almost making binary decisions. Much better to be able to let one go every few minutes rather than just being in or out.
Having said that I'd my P&L would be off the charts had I not spewed up the long I got into at 3:22 for a few ticks!!
I'm binary all the way at the moment mate. Hard to backtest the impact of increasing/decreasing size mid-trade.
my P&L would be off the charts had I not spewed up the long I got into at 3:22 for a few ticks!!
Guttored!
This is one of the reasons I couldn't do discretionary. Not only sweating the losses, but ruing the might-have-beens. I'd lose sleep.
To be fair, not much sign it was going to go this nuts??
Having said that I'd my P&L would be off the charts had I not spewed up the long I got into at 3:22 for a few ticks!!
I would have thought you might have got your fade on at 16:37 anyway??
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Nah mate I mostly played that one long, did give too much back on the break down @ 5:30.
Just another day of shouldas, couldof and what the F was I thinking, add it to other 3000 days of feeling sh!te after a day of trading!!
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Nah mate I mostly played that one long, did give too much back on the break down @ 5:30.
Just another day of shouldas, couldof and what the F was I thinking, add it to other 3000 days of feeling sh!te after a day of trading!!
Why do you do it if you feel ****e after it?
Last time I felt like that I was boxing!
Didn't like hurting people.
Stopped----
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Makes you wonder doesn't it? But its nowhere near as bad as having to look at one of these things twice a day.
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That's the single biggest motivator for me to be successful at this one day....freedom.
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I've found freedom is something you take.
You may think you earn it but in my
Experience if you don't own it ( freedom )
You won't make or enjoy it.
You can have freedom when ever you choose it!!
Regardless of what you do in life.
You get to a point where you can have
All the freedom you want but choose that
Which you take.
I get the guilts when I take mine.
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Not so sure about that.
Unless your business is big enough to support you
The silent partner.
Freedom is a distant dream!
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Motivator, the vision. Smart planning is part of a strategy.
Vision - mission - strategy - plan
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Who knows really but the probability of success as a fulltime trader long term is grim.
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Yup, totally agree. Slim.
I'm positive that's why even many successful traders eventually end up with some kind of sideline. Writing a book or three, a website, trading room.
It's not just because they're all great people and they want to share....it's another income stream.
Anyway, it's for another thread, but nice diversion.
Good luck today folks!
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Quote Originally Posted by Trembling Hand View Post
Who knows really but the probability of success as a fulltime trader long term is grim.
Yup, totally agree. Slim.
TH ? CanOz ? Why do you conclude this?
Who knows really but the probability of success as a fulltime trader long term is grim.
Yup, totally agree. Slim.
TH ? CanOz ? Why do you conclude this?
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most traders simply dont have enough knowledge and wont have enough money to get themselves through the journey or enough character to get to the level of consistancy.......
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the post i answered had a question that started with why not how
i stuck in the word "how"
i think that's pretty clear
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