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Update: Net +0.88%, +2.68% cumulative, objective 10%. I stayed up late to trade the post-news movement after CPI, based on the idea that the market would be slow/awkward the next morning (my 5am is 2pm NY). I'm glad I did because I found it very hard to trade the next morning - heavy and a super slo...

Trade update: Net +0.62%, cumulative +1.78%, objective 10%. I had a cautious session; the volatility was low; I wanted to trade more lots but just didn't feel comfortable as price ground higher. I was quite inefficient - burning $107 in commissions, but held the course as price ground lower and got ...

Hello; Thanks for the kinds words everyone. It has (and continues to be) a long and challenging journey. I've got such a huge amount of work to do, but have now experienced how persistence, caution and carefully chosen risk can consistently work to my advantage... if I accept my losses sooner rather...

Eval update: Net +0.71%, cumulative 6%, target 6% - I finally passed the apex eval. Today I was patient and well positioned near the hourly lows, trading a 1x lot upwards and scalping another 1x lot here and there. 2023-12-05-apex-eval-pass.jpg Looking over my stats, my average flat-to-flat winning ...

End of week update: Net +0.71%, 5.18% cumulative, 6% target. The ranges were wider today, circa 4pts instead of the usual 2.5pts, which was helpful in terms of positioning after volume built at an extreme and then exiting at first stall. I started to lose confidence in one of my trades as price rota...

Update: Net +0.66%, 4.44% cumulative, target 6%. Today was a nice combination of higher timeframe context, working with the order flow for small bites and having sensible stops. Sadly I've been sitting on my hands for the last half hour looking for a retrace in a grind up; so rather than chase or bu...

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Net +0.66%, cumulative is 3.14%.. I have pi!

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Now +2.46%.. small up today (0.23%) and circa 0.63% at the end of last week).

Still swinging small and keeping the stops nearby; small bites and more of them.

I’ve been working on a few “less is more” things recently: - observing price action more closely, more cautiously - scalping for very conservative targets that fit within the price action I’m observing.. could be 3 to 8 ticks depending on what’s happening - making myself only trade with the price ac...

It takes a bit of work, but it is helpful to turn a P&F chart into a histogram, where the average rotation length is 3-6 boxes: The rotations that break 6 are "trending moves" when there are two breaks of the same color, without two breaks of the opposite color, and "interrupting...