Totally lost my patience today with oil. I bought at 101.55 around 1:15PM today. I get stopped out by a few ticks as "they" run stops down to 101.35. Price then shoots up almost 300 ticks with no significant pullbacks, something easy to trail with a pretty tight stop. It completely ignores the 103.40 level on its way up, and upon retracing I try to buy at the pullback--but nope, not for me. Maybe the worst feeling I've had since I started trading. Oh yeah, I had a long on ES at the time on a pullback as well, you can guess how that turned out as the whole world freaks out that oil is rising. Oil is so frustrating for me because it does NOTHING for hours on end, fakes me out, stops me out, whipsaws everyone in its path--and then up $2.50 in 10 minutes, with a max pullback of 20 ticks. Arg...
Sigh. The only consolation is it's not real money, but I realize the longer I struggle in sim, the longer it will take to trade real money. Someone who has been through this, please give me some advice so I don't lose my sanity. Thanks.