Hello all. This is my introductory post and trading journal all in one. I've been reading a lot of posts on this site over the last month trying to find a secret to successful trading. I've been trying to test and trade different systems without much success. Until today, that is. Over the weekend I finally figured out that I needed to have a system I developed and that I understand and that fits my personality in order to be successful at trading. Of course I had read this many times in various posts, but the lightbulb above my head didn't turn on until recently. I finally put all the pieces of my system together yesterday and today was the first day trading by my rules. I trade mechanically, because I've found out that I don't have the discretionary knack to see what is happening and react. I have my set of rules, and only when all conditions are met do I pull the trigger. I don't mind sitting for hours waiting for my setup to occur. I trade 5 ticks at a time on TF and love it. It fits me and what I want to get out of trading. I'm not sure how I want to develop this journal yet, but just to document my results, I was net +2.3 pts today on 10 trades (8 winners, 2 losers). Would have netted more, but I got distracted on the last 2 trades and they both went against me. Time will tell if today was just a fluke (I hope not), but I think I've finally found my way of sucessfully trading.