I checked my broker's volume, built on ticks as well as built on bid/ask to search for efficacy, as I had never found any with indices. As before, NQ, YM, SPY did not show anything, but 6E did, so perhaps it's useful for limited instruments. I'll be ...

Strat's PASR Long Term, Stress Free Trading

Handling DD might be the wrong way to look at it - you only "handle" DD in game theory or frequency-based strategies running iterations of trades. This is subjective trading with discrete entries and exits. You have winners or losers - if you don't ...

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Maybe 8 ticks? Ain't no thang! Stop chasing perfection or the little people will grow stronger! edit - looked at some charts and answered my own q

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YM M2 - maybe done with subjective trades for the day - manipulation was very strong, especially Nasdaq. image

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Look at a few Renkos - 10 pt, 15 pt, 20 pt with the same Stratshadows and the same action - see if it helps. It sounds like you got nervous and were trying to avoid bark beetles instead of seeing the trees or forest.

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I really think it's a zen thing, because there is no objective way to predict the stop level, even after the fact - it is essentially random, and more and more random as the TF's get smaller (if looking at candles for reference). Even on a tick ...

Strat's PASR Long Term, Stress Free Trading

Trying to go Stratstyle with almost no DD. Mindset must be to not only take losses but also re-enter without thinking or hesitation, otherwise it fails - end up taking losses without the corresponding payoff for riding her into submission. Of course ...

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FYI I think you're also very zen with Euro because you watch it all the time. I'm that way with NQ because I have so many algos running on it, have watched tick charts for years, and know the internal technicals / data backwards and forwards, from a ...

Strat's PASR Long Term, Stress Free Trading

Well, that's certainly better than an inchworm in a tunnel! We all wait for Jerome now... gonna be weird action until he's done. This is typically where subjectively, I can do no wrong for 20-40 trades in a row and then get eaten alive by ...

Strat's PASR Long Term, Stress Free Trading

She can be trixie on Fed day, often more fakeouts yet ultimately rangebound - rarely, it's a strong, uni-directional move right to news. Euro is molasses right now. I'm playing the tight range on Nasdaq. If she breaks, treating as another tight ...

Strat's PASR Long Term, Stress Free Trading

I'll continue to work on NQ 15 sec but not going to post it - if you or any regular poster wants to see how it's coming, feel free to PM me. For the thread, I'll post some more normal TF stuff and probably ask to be berated after having my first bad ...

Strat's PASR Long Term, Stress Free Trading

This thread sits open on an extra laptop now, and I refresh often to see if there are any new posts. Noticing how lots of people peruse this thread, yet only a few actually post. I remember Strat berating those for doing so when I was getting up to ...

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Fractal nature seems to break down the closer we get to avg tick volatility and max daily slippage levels, especially if using something non-standard, like, say 42 second bars, or 27 tick blocks, or 13 point renkos, etc. - which is logical since ...

Strat's PASR Long Term, Stress Free Trading

Well that sucks! Thought we'd all be hammering S15 charts by summer

Strat's PASR Long Term, Stress Free Trading

So I pulled the chart back and ran it one bar at a time and wrote in my decisions - not real trades, but tried to keep it honest. Biggest issue is I just watched this action in real time on Fri, so my subconscious is definitely not clean. Anyway, ...

Strat's PASR Long Term, Stress Free Trading

I haven't done it yet, but want to try it. Thought you'd make mincemeat of it and give me the courage, but I can try it tomorrow and post results. I have looked at it extensively and tested some objective entries and rr profiles, but the slip ...

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Today for 6E - tried exiting in 2 tranches instead of all at once - helped a little, unsure if a good path or better to concentrate on the best exit, rather than 1 safe plus 1 hope. Expected the slowdown due to the AMZN release, but Equities kept ...

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^Agree, that's a tough one - before market open, no news, and big news coming up in ~an hour - I took the retrace for 3 trades (15,+15,+10), in YM futs, not CFD, but chart very similar. Will leave alone until after GDP now.

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Thanks - the double top was obvious in hindsight - I was looking for another high, and when I took the stop, I was frozen for a bit, like an imbecile, unable to press sell as it went down

Strat's PASR Long Term, Stress Free Trading