Ok, back home, and i still have many hours to go before the markets close and I have avoided the danger of revenge trading. This morning I had 1000 dollars and now they're all gone because the time exits my systems use didn't see that it was coming down (cfr previous chart).
Now I am listening to hotel california by the eagles and I should be getting high, but my pot isn't dry. But I'll still try, because it's better to smoke fresh cannabis than to blow out my account.
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Yeah. I am not guilty of anything: I've let the systems run, unattended. Everything technically worked. Statistically nothing went wrong. I saw profit and saw it vaporize. It feels bad, but there was no mistakes, no guilt therefore. I need to smoke more and enjoy capital, while it lasts. I have capital to trade, for a change, so let's not blow it out. Damn!
It's 5 pm. Only 5 more hours to go.
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Yeah, I started... I am starting to get hungry. I didn't go to mcdonald's, so I'll allow myself to drink some milk with nesquik as well.
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Yep.
6 pm and no discretionary revenge trades placed yet.
The problem is that the systems placed a short NG, which is making me lose further. Lost some on the overnight long trade, lost some on the intraday short trade... it really sucks.
I feel like recovering some of these losses. This is the hardest part of automated trading.
I broke a bottle of hemp seed oil, and it took me over half an hour to clean it up. My fault because I hadn't realized how the refrigerator, the small one i bought, was built. If you do not open very slowly and carefully a bottle could fall out. It sucks. My fault that i hadn't noticed.
I am tired of saying "my fault". I have said today a couple of times at work, when it wasn't. You try to make it easy for others. "Sorry" and "my fault" don't cost me anything so i use them more often than it's the case. Plus, with an idiot boss, since it's always his fault, you try to help him out by pretending that sometimes it's not his fault if something goes wrong - provided he doesn't abuse my kindness and yells at me like a month ago.
I have bet everything i had on my trading, and it's - once again - my fault that i am still working at the office with these animals. If I had done things right I would not be there anymore. So I have to pay for my sins, by meeting idiots every day, and being kind to them, despite being disrespected by them sometimes, because I know that they're disrespecting out of stupidity and i want to get their respect politely and without offending them. Besides, i don't want to make enemies unless it's clearly necessary and...
I am surrounded by people who love me but bother me. People who like me but bother me. People who fear me and bother me. People who appreciate me and bother me... everyone bothers me, even those not meaning any harm. That's why i have to be extra careful when i retaliate and defend myself: because they might have hurt me by mistake, being so stupid. Yet, being extra careful also means sometimes being slow. Usually i know i overreact and am oversensitive, so it's a good thing to force myself to slow down. Yet this means sometimes that I answer the next day. Before i react, I have to really make sure that someone is abusing my rights intentionally.
6.30 pm and I am still free from revenge trading. Capital is now slightly above 10k. Very sad. But if this is all the drawdown I will see, then I can call myself lucky. Considering the withdrawal of 500, i have only seen a drawdown of less than 2000, when the usual drawdown that happens almost once every two months is about 4000. The problem is always the same: we don't know when it will happen so there is no way to avoid it. It's obvious and yet the question keeps reappearing in my mind: how do i stay out during the week of the big drawdown? It's stupid, and yet i keep asking myself that question. That's how attached i am to my capital. In turn it explains why i often succumbed to revenge trading urges.
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7 pm. It happened. A small GBL trade short. Looking for just 2 ticks, to make myself feel better.
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Still waiting for my 16 euros. To compensate for a feeling of having missed profit of over 1000.
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Ouch!
It's almost 8 pm, and not only did i miss 1000 dollars of profit in the last two hours of my NG overnight SHORT trade, but now I am losing 1000 from another NG trade in the opposite direction. The NG resumed its mother ****ing rise but too late for my NG overnight trade to profit from it.
So now I am below 10k of capital. It ****ing sucks. It sucks to be watching this happen, helpless. Basically lost 2000 dollars, thanks to the systems. Couldn't do nothing about it.
This is the type of thing that drives me mad and makes me engage in revenge discretionary trading, which causes me to blow out the account. And i just doubled my short on GBL, recklessly.
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This is me singing to my compulsive gambling. It's just a part of me i can't let go...
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9 pm
Now losing 200 euros due to compulsive gambling trades...
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9.40 pm
closing the damn discretionary trades: lost 150 dollars
capital below 10k
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Yeah, what the heck - i will follow the systems. It's not too late.
At worst i'll get back to the 4k i started with.
Damn.
****.
10k of capital and 3 more weekdays.
What the ****. I could go to 4k in just a week.
But who says I have to be unlucky.
I just want to get some money from my week-long ZN trade. It's been sitting on the 133 range for a week. It's time to get some profit from this trade. Then I'll be done.
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