This could be a mistake
Last December I was googling “Unirenko” and came upon the thread here at Futures IO. Discovered I’ve been with this site for about 1300 days and have not replied or posted anything. Other things caught my attention including stuff in the elite section. Had no choice but become an elite, whatever that means.
As an indicator junkie downloaded some and then found @fattails’ LizardIndicators. His session VWAPs and session pivots are a revelation.
Read @Big_Mike’s sticky about trade journals & started looking into others’ journals. And here I’m about to create some sort of journal, which could be a mistake. I’m leery about this thing taking too much of my time as words don’t come easily. But as they say, try anything once— see how it goes. If if I don’t like it after two weeks or 2 months then stop.
I post videos of my trades on Instagram
https://www.instagram.com/tiglathtrading
and YouTube/tiglath trading
[yt]https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYaDrN8zjM9wlDiD6qNPH2A[/yt]
Not posted are the trades where I blow up my sim account several times.
Current situation: paper trading for too many years. Preferred reality: trading live making real money consistently. The other day accidentally tapped the topsteptrader submit request button. I could probably use some grounding on respecting parameters.

Most of the traders here are friendly and won't criticize you for your trading.

Many of them have blown up accounts so posting them not only will help others to not make the same mistake but will help you to get past them.
You probably should post links to the videos here using the red arrow on the right side of the window at the top. It will embed youtube into the thread.

Thanks for starting a journal.

Thanks for the tip!
Let’s see how this works.
My trade today long NQ. I was hoping the daily VWAP would become support & it did, right on the money. Paper money, lol.

mariopix 

Had no choice but become an elite, whatever that means.

Somebody else asked the same thing recently and Mike submitted an interesting post and link explaining the name.

why an elite section? From 2009 after I created the forum: The reason the name is "Elite". It dates back to a business I ran in 1992 as a teenager named The Elite Circle. Mike

matthew28 

Somebody else asked the same thing recently and Mike submitted an interesting post and link explaining the name. why an elite section? From 2009 after I created the forum: The reason the name is "Elite". It dates back to a business I ran in 1992 as a teenager named The Elite Circle. Mike

Thank you. It’s just a word, a name. What matters is the content, the purpose, what it means to the creator of the label.

Gotta stop trading these many contracts. Can’t do that with live account. Two long trades today with NQ.
Should check the Topsteptrader thing.

Signed up for the TopstepTrader combine. Will be maxing out at 5 contracts from this point forward until I know what I’m doing.

Short crude & a couple of ES longs.

Signed up for the 50k TopstepTrader combine January 10th. Have scaled down to 5 contracts or less, playing with that in sim account. The hardest part is to make sure my Unrealized Net P&L does not go over the Daily Loss Limit of 1K. That means I need to be really picky with my entries. Checking the TopstepTrader rules again noticed I violated two rules repeatedly last week. A good thing they were all done in the sim account. That all trading days were net positive does not count.
Suggestions to self:
1. Start out with two or even just one contract.
2. Get up earlier & trade in the first 2-3 hours of the RTH. No later.
3. When it feels like it’s running out of steam get out.
4. Attach stop loss to ATR trailing dot religiously. Get used to losses—just make sure they’re small.

Monday January 14
Unrealized Net P&L 1K rule —FAIL
Close trades by 4:10 EST — FAIL

Tuesday January 15
Unrealized Net P&L 1K rule — PASS
Close trades by 4:10 EST — FAIL

Thursday January 17
Unrealized Net P&L 1K rule —FAIL
Close trades by 4:10 EST — FAIL

Friday January 18
Unrealized Net P&L 1K rule —FAIL
Close trades by 4:10 EST — PASS