The Vortex Trader — There comes a time when one has to take the next step. I have been trading profitably now for 3 months doing the same thing every day. I am having a hard time though gearing up to the next lot level. As long as I am playing ...

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The Vortex Trader — Why does it seem that my entire trading career is about seeing negative numbers in my floating profit/loss box. Sure by the end of the day most often I have made a profit but during every trade I can count on a negative ...

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The Vortex Trader — I am up early this morning, this is not my normal time to trade. Because I am not trading during my normal hours - my mind is creating the worst case scearios, possible. kind a funny how that works. When in doubt the mind ...

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The Vortex Trader — Its late for me and I am not sleeping because I burnt my thumb and it is throbbing and the pain is keeping me awake. Which of course led me to a insight hence the entry in my journal. For me to be a really good trader, I ...

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The Vortex Trader — Well a pretty good day after all and I am now short for the second time today the Eurjpy entry 133.97. Because it is so late in the day I have a pretty tight stop and a large target. My expectation is when I come back for ...

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The Vortex Trader — I am not sure if I shot the right monster or not - tough trading today when the markets have been trending all night and I was sleeping. So now I get to work on creating a retracement trade - for this tye of trading I put ...

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The Vortex Trader — The bad thing about listening to the wrong voice in my head is that now I am in doubt about what to do. I am trying to justify my actions by giving myself a pep talk. I can say all the cliches - bottom line I know I ...

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The Vortex Trader — I am short the Audjpy at 6828 because of an itchy finger more than anything - I am reporting this because I did not do any of my morning work nor did I write out my trading plan before hand. In fact I am in because my bad ...

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The Vortex Trader — I am short the USD CAD again at 1.2698 - got in a little late on this trade - again negative divergence on my trading chart at a pivot level - because I am testing - I am using very small lot positions. I will do this until ...

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The Vortex Trader — Hmm - I took a short on the USDCAD at 1.2571 with a target of 1.2547 - entry was a negative divergence on my trading chart at a pivot point - target was based on my trading chart set up price area which gives me an ...

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The Vortex Trader — I am making the choice this week to post my trades. This is a learning tool for me to force me to create my trading plan and to share it - quite honestly, many of the trades I am waiting for won't happen - we shall see what ...

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The Vortex Trader — Ok end of the Month and time to reflect on what I learned and how I am a better trader today than when the month started. First Results: For the month I grew my account by 5% after taking out 9% for my efforts. I had 2 ...

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The Vortex Trader — Two bad days in a row is enough - yesterday and the day before I was a basket case - lost confidence in what I was doing - The good news for me is that I went back to the basics this morning and am doing much better - using ...

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The Vortex Trader — Anatomy of a bad day. These are the choices I make that turn a day into a bad trading day. Today I fought the EurGBP for 5 hours before finally giving up with a loss. So let me talk about it so I get it out in the open. I ...

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The Vortex Trader — I had to turn off my charts because the alarms where going crazy. I am not a news trader and even though I have these "if only I had done this or that look how much money I would have made thoughts", I know better. Actually ...

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The Vortex Trader — This morning I am most interested in my mental framework. I am not seeing a trade set up at the moment. During these times where patience is the order for the day, my mind likes to get busy. This is the time to not force a ...

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The vortex trader — I find it very interesting that price can sit 1 pip away from my limit for a couple of minutes and yet take out a stop in a millisecond. Just one of the problems on faces - brokers who actually have a different focus than ...

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The vortex trader — Cool - the jpy gave me what I was looking for Neg divergence with a spike candle - then price was so kind as to fall to my tp within 10 mins - I like that. So I am done for the week - any more trading today is not in my ...

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The vortex trader — Well I have my first trade done for the morning - now I am looking at the JPY to see if it will push up a little higher. Where it sits right now 96.10 is sort of nomans land - going short would be for a few pips and going ...

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The vortex trader — Yikes - I spent a couple of minutes listening to this tellemarketer then put in a bad trade immediately after I hung up because i was watching price move from where I was thinking of entering. So I am feeling angry with the ...

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