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Well today was tough for me. By the time I started trading there was a huge drop (news related I think), and 1 short that I might've taken. The shorts would've worked well. But then it got into a smaller range, broke out, crossed the SMA, but I waited for the setup until the SMA actually turned, whi...

I tried to trade today but it didn't start very good. Halfway my day I could see that I was missing the setups and taking the bad trades. Looking back at my 4 losing trades I thought..."why??" (2 losers were valid trades, the other 2 mwah...wouldn't take them again) By then I already lost...

Back to the FTMO thing. Only one trade for 0.77%. Missed the other one because I had to pick up the phone =D> , so could've been more but oh well. Third day in a row that I say that I need to let small pullbacks run for longer; if I did that maybe the first trade would've been a loss but on the 2nd ...

s**t. ill take one day like that. Even a measly 1% risk is a 30% gain. You scalpers are killing me. You can scalp or swing and end up in the same place. I'm not patient enough for swings. I'm generation x and have played video games since they were invented so I think that could be why scalping sui...

At the same time, I remember that someone said that stacking is worth much more than holding. I think it was MO, but I never truly 'got it' (I did understand how that worked when putting the profits as risk for the next trade by some folks who helped me here, but that required a higher winrate so I ...

This is an exercise / trying out something to keep winners run and committing to a longer term idea, to see if I can withstand a few stabs and then let it run. I'm trading this. I can only enter within those two lines in a smaller timeframe. I take the first break and the other entries are done like...

And...today I wasn't able to get anything and got a 1R loss London session was watching wet paint dry so I walked. During the US session I did a couple of trades but not the right ones :( Were your trades 'wrong' though? Personally I'm really trying to go trade by trade to see if I missed something...

But when talking about scaling in like this, we're only talking about putting all the initial R at play, right?
It's not the same as adding in the sense of stacking, or is it?

Today I took 3 trades. 1%, 0.5% and BE. So 1.5% total. Trade #2 again, I should've let it run because it's third time I mention targetting more on trades with small pullbacks on larger momentum candles lol. I saw hit 1:1, then turn, and exited at 0.5 The third one was similar but with much weaker mo...

When I started collecting my own data and making my own observations a couple of years ago I discovered something interesting. I was tempted to put it on another form, just to get some confirmation on wether I was right or maybe made an error somewhere. I ended up not sharing it, because I thought ...