After all my experiments and trials and ups and downs over the years I have seen or met only a few people that have achieved consistent profits over time, and without exception they have a simple and defined stategy with a good risk reward ratio ...

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Sjoe ka wena ... that is a hectic way to trade ... must be tough on your mental framenwork when done in a live account ...

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Thanks for the advice. I tried that type of trading earlier in the year on Sierra and it did not work for me ... the widers SL makes a good risk reward ratio difficult ... but it was on the very short timeframes so will check it out again on longer ...

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Ended at -50 today ... caught the wrong kind of pullsbacks ... seems I find it hard to shake the habit ... I need to spend more time in the replay function ... good thing I am in sim mode ... eish.

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Ended with +20 ... must admit that I would not have taken the +19 trade if I did not know Mr D was there ... I usually get burned too easily with those type of trades ... not seeing something that Mr D is obviously seeing ... practice, ...

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For once I left that one and got +19 ...

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I caught the second trade but was stopped out at BE ...

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Thanks Mr D and Cap ... appreciate it ... will have to change my perception of a pullback a bit then ... !

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Not a good day ... ended at -39 ... my eye for setups and timing just sucked ... eish ... the plan is simple but that application never ceases to amaze me

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That is what I also tend to do ... big time

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And there is a good chance that he had a buy at 9500 on 9:38am and got a +2 ....

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After spending ages and ages and ages trying to make trading work (simply because I enjoy it and are so fascinated with it) ... I have been "seeing" and practicing to trade that way for few months and are slowly making progress ... the plan, trade ...

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Ended at -22 ... made some mistakes early on so I turned the session into a consistency excercise to see if I can recover ... made more mistakes but just kept on and on to practice consistency and to make my emotional recovery time quicker ... must ...

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Well said ... ... excellent advice ... especially the recording, I have never been able to keep a trading journal very well ... am going to try the recording thing for sure ... and I must say that analyzing my old trade has become ...

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I think they call it hook trading earlier in the thread ... I also tried it but got burned too many times ... if you catch the breakout right, there is lots of ticks and it worked better for me with a wider SL ... to the last HH or LL worked the ...

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Ended at +36 ... have an appointment that is getting closer so decided not to trade further, can feel the stess mounting ... got a few bonus ticks today, I am still testing the best way to deal with the bonus part of the trade (when it gets to +25 ...

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Sjoe ... excellent one ... I did not see it .. only a +1 so far ...

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Two close calls do far but no trades ...

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Was also on 42 at 9:48 but it touched and did not trigger the first time so I took it off ...

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