Beautiful trading day. Yes I made money, but more importantly I demonstrated patience and discipline. It's Friday and Fridays are about protecting the money you gained in the week, so after this one trade I called it quits. Trade 1 (Win 14.25 pts) ...

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Good day. I did some things right, I did more things wrong. But I've learned from my mistakes. I took 3 trades: 1 win 2 losses. Trade 1 (loss) The Trade Idea: Range Extension. The Market broke out of the IB. It tested Yesterday's POC (YPOC) and ...

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Finally figured it out. I had to download a second version of Sierra Charts. So I have one version with just the Denali feed and one version with Rithmic and the Denali feed. * The 100,000 account I purchased actually expired without me taking any ...

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Let's start with this: UpThrust: An UpThrust represents an interval where Sellers (or Supply) enters the Market. Typically, it is a wide spread UP bar that makes a higher high than the previous interval and closes near its low (or in the lower 25% ...

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*Obviously, context plays a role, but going short after seeing an UpThrust followed by a Failed Test, is something that should be done every day and twice on Sunday. *One the Best traders on the Factory started a thread entitled something about ...

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Thank you for the suggestion. I hadn't thought of this. But it still raises my main concern: the data on my platform (Sierra Chart with FXCM) will be different than the data on MFF's MT4.

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It's all FXCM spot data available free with Sierra Chart (which is not free). And therein lies one of my issues: Trade through APEX or some other futures prop firm that can connect to Sierra Chart or, trade through MFF and trade spot but I wouldn't ...

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Just took a very similar trade in Cable. image image Been spending a lot of time on YouTube watching videos from "The Pit Trading". Still trying to figure out how to connect to Apex. image

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I believe in Volume Spread Analysis (VSA), and I shouldn't let my dislike of the way certain traders trade with VSA cause me to want abandon it. The real Journal starts here where the method is VSA and the Prop Firm funding account will be through ...

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I too recently fell victim to the siren's song of of SM techniques that abound on YouTube. I've concluded that no technique can truly understand what the Smart Money is doing, if the technique doesn't look at volume. image image

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Quick GBP scalp: image 1. Wide spread UP bar on increasing volume that closes of its high. This is Supply. Note that the bottom of the Trigger Matrix is acting as resistance. 2. This interval is DOWN, confirming the Supply on the previous candle. ...

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Thank you. Thank you for reminding me that I started this journal to hold myself accountable; not hostage. I had to step away from the combine because I needed to fix some things about myself, and because I couldn't seem to "make the Model work". ...

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ICT 2022 mentorship. I watched the Tradeguider video of the live trading room where the trader was trading a 1 minute chart looking to get a couple of pips and then get out. Then I watched the ICT video and he traded a 1 minute chart and was looking ...

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In the 2022 mentorship, ICT states that the terms Break Of Structure (BOS) and Market Structure Shift (MSS) can be used interchangeably. But he then goes on to say that a BOS defines a larger change in price structure that tends to accompany price ...

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THE MODEL: * One way to help endure loss is by capturing the countless times The Model worked: one loss can't stand up to the preponderance of evidence to the contrary. image

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THE MODEL: * NO BREAKERS. NO MITIGATION BLOCKS. image image

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Actually, in the micro account it's : Daily loss = weekly loss = $500 (in both steps 1 and 2). So it's still twice as much in the $50,000 account.

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I think the correct entry would have been an entry short (no FVG entry actually setup), since the direction of the Market was down. This trade was taken without any bias- whatever came first - SellSide Liquidity hit or BuySide Liquidity hit- I would ...

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I've decided to do a reset. Technically, a reset means to pay an additional fee to start over in one's current combine. What I am doing is closing this combine-that is in profit and has no rules broken-in order to open a new $50,000 combine instead. ...

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Friday's Thoughts and Analysis 1. Had a losing day, of which there will be many. Trading is a loser's game: he who loses best - wins. 2. I waited for confirmation on my entry. Lesson learned. 3. Although I would not take this trade going forward, it ...

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