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Took a scalp play on the 15 minute bars. Waited for the pull back after a huge down bar. The plan was to take a 10 tick scalp. Ended up +11 with slippage with 0 MAE. This was executed perfectly. I set a Buy Stop above the high of the bar with a 5 tick stop and waited for it to tick up. Trade took 7 seconds from entry to exit.
This is a setup I have been watching and practicing for a while. This is the first time I executed it in a combine.
Robert
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Took a trade on the break out of the trend line. Did not have the patience to hold it to my target of 15 ticks. Ended up +11. I watched this one closely because the day has been very bearish. My feeling is there could be a strong pullback to the downside on any type of weakness.
Currently sitting at +40 ticks for the day. There is one more possible breakout to the upside and one to the downside I might take assuming it does not happen late in the afternoon.
I felt very comfortable trading today. I turned off my P/L on the last trade. It was freaking me out a little not being able to see it. However, I did notice I was forced to look at the chart in relation to support and resistance levels and not the number ticks I had gained. Will attempt to go to all day tomorrow without seeing my P/L.
Last night - notes.
I saw the downside potential last night but did not have the courage to put the target below the support. I was going to attempt to make it two trades. The trade idea was right but was lacking in execution.
I originally had a 20 tick target which was above the low of last week. The plan was if my first target hit to put a sell stop below last weeks low. Well price blew through the low before I had a chance to setup the stop. Hindsight - I should have set up the entry while in my first trade because it was a high probability trade. The only positive thing that happened was I didnt chase the trade. Last night would have been the rare exception where it ended positively but even knowing this it still would have not been worth the risk.
My entry last night was 90.55 and todays low 87.86. I ended up with 20 ticks last night. Not a bad trade by any means but still I caught myself saying what if.... So, I am giving myself an A for recognizing the what was happening and a C-/D+ for capitalizing on it.
15 minute chart. Channel formed with today's action. There is a bit of bottoming out since the close. Price is in the midddle of the channel so there is a possibility of breakdown if it breaks or rally if it holds.. choose your poison.
I cant remember where I heard it but someone said the trades which look the worst or where you have the most fear in taking generally end up being the best trades. I have found this to be true over the last couple of days. Tonight I missed a 50 tick run because of fear. All the signs were there, it was screaming take me! take me! I even had the sell stop set. I took it out and 15 minutes later price was 50 ticks lower. I have missed out on 150 ticks (conservative) over the past 24 hours because of fear and poor execution.
So what can I do?? I have to take the trades for better or worse... for richer for poorer.. regardless of what I feel at the moment... I suppose this would be considered growing pains in the world of trading? Man this sucks! Feels like I missed the shot to win the game..
First trade of the day was flat. The entry conditions were met however, price moved a few ticks in the direction of the trade then just stopped and hung in mid air for more than a minute. When it started to reverse I got out.