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Sorry to hear this and good job on the first steps to walk away and get off tilt! I find that I need to be very careful for a couple of days after a bad day like this - seems even good trades go bad after a horrible day due to the lingering effects of the lack of mental balance.
I missed the trigger on the NQ trade and hoped it would come back to fill me before it reached the target but no luck, price action already travelled 12 ticks.
Update on the YM trade: Price has pushed 8 ticks to the next resistance level, stalled and pulled back up almost to the entry. We will see what happens!
Don't be controlled by GREED, Led by FEAR, or Puffed up with PRIDE!
I had to leave to pick up my daughter and do some shopping, and I didn't want to leave a 15 tick stop and target, so I adjusted both back to 10 tick stop and 10 tick target so $100 to start the day. I always like the little cushion going into the morning and there is usually a trade setup near the opening of the market at 6:00 pm EST. It just may take forever to close but that is okay.
Don't be controlled by GREED, Led by FEAR, or Puffed up with PRIDE!
A perfect 2S on the 6J with 2Ks. I closed the position at +14. I barely got here in time for this one. If I had more time I would have used 5Ks. Another $175 almost at my daily goal and its not even London session yet. Sweet!
Don't be controlled by GREED, Led by FEAR, or Puffed up with PRIDE!
What happened with your trading records and the vault situation. First, I want to say a big thank you to aquarian1 (Ian) for he really went out of his way to help me and offered up some great advice and follow up. Thanks Ian!
I never was able to mount the vault and access the files. I will admit that I didn't try everything but decided not to put any more time and energy into the effort. I learned that some others had similar problems when their computer did certain Windows updates and that was enough for me. Basically, I may not have all the detailed records exactly the way I like them but I am not about to reenter all of last year's info when I can get it elsewhere from the brokerage. So I will live with that. I am planning on redoing my spreadsheets (probably this weekend) where all my daily input feeds into my monthly reports, my monthly reports feed into my quarterly reports and my quarterly reports feed into my annual report, so as long as I keep up with my daily entries there is no problem. I am considering not even worrying about the daily data and just enter the end of month data which will automatically create the quarterly and annual reports. Whatever, I do finally decide for 2017 I will redo from the beginning of the year and stay on top of it.
Most importantly for my security concerns though, I am going to store the info on a USB drive and keep it separate from my computer which should take care of the potential security problem and I will require a password to access the documents. In addition, I will not put any personal information on the USB drive or computer.
Thank you all for your support!
Don't be controlled by GREED, Led by FEAR, or Puffed up with PRIDE!
As computer engineer I should warn you. Don't buy cheap chinese usb drive. Best choice I'd suggest you is Western Digital. Any "My passport" drives from them its perfect for all your needs. Look for ones that have a in-built password protection which is a hardware protection and way less likely to fail at any random point.
I've been away from the computer most of the day but did have an opportunity to take this trade a little while ago in my live account for +12 ticks. It was a 2L.
Don't be controlled by GREED, Led by FEAR, or Puffed up with PRIDE!