barjon
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Wife will be pleased - just lost half the holiday money in a frenetic two hours
jon
grrr - after all these years why do I still have those gung-ho days where my painstakingly drawn up rules go out the window and I keep smashing the trade button like a demented organist in a horror movie.
Wife will be pleased - just lost half the holiday money in a frenetic two hours![]()
jon
hi, cb
well if you want the whole sorry saga
First, I don't day trade (except for fun in my fun account). I had potential long signals in the offing for three of the banks and thought (absolutely against the rules) that I'd anticipate them. Got caught out in the early down wave, tried again during the chop and caught out again in the second down wave. The most humiliating part is that if I'd applied my rules to the intraday 5 min chart there would have been triggered short signals
So I don't day trade my main account but had 11 tradestrying to steal a march on my signals and "fine tune" entries
What a total pillock I am.
cheers
jon
Yeah, that's probably the gremlin that kicks it off, ammo. Most times I see the light, slap myself on the wrist and get back to the rules and sanity. Sometimes, though, it's like losing your temper and I just flail away kicking against the pricks and ignoring all the evidence that's just sitting there screaming at me to stop. I even know that when I'm in one of these moods I should just turn off and mow the lawn or something - but when you've lost your temper.....................
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jon
................................ So I don't day trade my main account but had 11 tradestrying to steal a march on my signals and "fine tune" entries
...........
cheers
jon
If it's any consolation, I had 5 consecutive losing trades this afternoon - and that's on the back of two losing days!
hi, cb
well if you want the whole sorry saga
First, I don't day trade (except for fun in my fun account). I had potential long signals in the offing for three of the banks and thought (absolutely against the rules) that I'd anticipate them. Got caught out in the early down wave, tried again during the chop and caught out again in the second down wave. The most humiliating part is that if I'd applied my rules to the intraday 5 min chart there would have been triggered short signals
So I don't day trade my main account but had 11 tradestrying to steal a march on my signals and "fine tune" entries
What a total pillock I am.
cheers
jon
Hi yac',If you don't mind me asking, how do you manage to cope mentally with a string of losses stretching back 3 days Tim ?
yeah, i had an attack of something, split
just a mad max moment - i'm back on a level footing now, but i'll have to work hard to repair the damage.
cheers
jon