nice EJ trade, it looks to be setting up a buy trigger now though, so not sure about the sell unless it pulls back a bit first.

 

closed the gold sell as it's setting up a brown buy trigger. might just  be a trickout buy trigger, but i prefer to be safe with already earned profits lol.

nice trades everyone, very educational seeing what kind of trades people are taking. only got 1 good trade today and 1 loss and 1 BE. i missed the trade of the day which would have been the London close buy trade on the nasdaq, s&p or the dow, posted it in the appropriate section. i missed the trigger by a couple of minutes, was bummed out 🙂

 

this December it will have been 1 year since i started my mission to learn to trade profitably. some times i really wonder if i will ever get to be consistently profitable. the markets seem to be made to take your money. although i think we are on to some thing with the time specific trades. i do notice that the more i trade the more often i understand whats happening and trade correctly. situations do seem to repeat endlessly

 

one of my main battles is still, not taking trades that don't follow the rules. for some reason i still catch myself taking trades because i think i know what will happen rather then waiting to let the market show me the opportunity. i am getting better, but it's been a slow process. i some times wonder if i'm taking the more risky trades because it's not really money? would i be more careful if it was a live account? on the other hand if you can't make a consistent profit in demo i guess there is no hope for doing it live...

well it seems the US is having a bank holiday, you can tell the volumes are totally lame, instead of the burst of volatility around US open we have the market just flat, ranging inside a few  pip range. if i was a hedge fund trying to move the market, now would be the cheapest time to do so, not much volume needed at all, to push it either way, it seems to me.

 

i see Theo didnt bother with the outlook today after all, i guess it's time to enjoy the day and forget the markets till tomorrow.

had a terrible day today. the one good trigger i took was a nas buy at us open, but like a fool i closed it early when it started looking weak, but it was only taking a break before it pushed on to my tp and beyond. some days its so easy, while days like today seem made to lose money. fresh start tomorrow.