How do you explain the following..
You state you picked turning points, swing points you referred to them, the fact that they differ to my swing points is irrelevant, but having identifed them (or so you say) why didn't you action them? You refer to 230 pips in those swings, but you never got any of them, so calling it post trade is silly, 5hit just remembered, I should have told everyone to go long on crude 9 o'clock on the 24 th Sept...
At best you taught break even/small loss random trading today..Now you've apparently stayed in your *day* trades overnight, so if you were so confident in your chart reading this time, and being the right side of what you considered to be a developing trend, it doesn't make sense..why not stay in the trades you reckon you spotted..?
I havn't forensically analyzed your trades today, not
that interested tbh, but even a cursory glance reveals some startling trading behaviour, again behaviour that'd be hard to sell or justify to a noob you're trying to take money off/teach..
For example you state you'll only have 3% risk on perhaps 2 trades at the start of the trade, but if you widen the stops from 50 to 150, as you have done several times, that's 9%..if only widened to 100 (as you did today) that's 6%..Now you've done this when in 3 trades concurrently in the past, an exposure way past 9%..
Also what spooks you? You bizarely came in and out of trades today leaving lots of pips on the table? It was no different a trading day to other days, every moment in the market is unique, patterns don't repeat but they do rhyme, yet you closed trades at some strange points, when miles away from stops (revised or otherwise) or price action..to me that smacks of inexperience, nothing else would explain it, and as such demolishes your claims of decades of succesful trading..
Again you refer to "getting it right" on the Euro in your last trading post, yet you'd closed your trade at b/e, so in fact you got it wrong at the time of posting as when you were b/e price was arguably ranging not trending. If we accept your weak indefinite call that Euro was about to break out at approx 10:30 price was roughly 13800, when you bailed for the final time price was at 13825..therefore (as per your actions not retrospective analysis) you'd actually identified nothing..
Oh..fyi, other than managing/altering my swing trades I only took one short term/small TF trade today/this morning; 30 pips, price action using support resistance and the pivot. Isn't it strange how all the respected traders I follow (not on twitter 'cos that's gay) don't pollute their charts the way you do with too much *furniture*, they started that way but stripped it down, in fact the most successful guy I know only uses candles and his optimised version of one propietary moving average...like me he likes marketscope, shows his entries and exits clearly, helps when we compare notes over the Interweb (that you invented back in the day
)..you'll get there..actually I'm not sure you ever will...but crack on it's....well...*interesting*...