I did trade today and I started with the mindset that if I found myself +2R I'd call it a month. I hit my +2R target and so I am sticking to the promise I made myself to quit for the week. Total profit for the week is $9007.34, which is an average ...

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I trade the NQ futures contract which is $5/ tick and $20/point. -$250 risk is -12.25 points, +$500 take profit is +25 points.

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+3R profit average across the five accounts. I'm going to leave the casino now since like yesterday, I have day job obligations that will cause me to be away from my desk and work station in around 10 AM and I won't be back for 15 to 30 minutes. I ...

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I play it like roulette. Once I place my bet it is either win or lose. Currently I risk $250 and take profit at $500. The stop and take profit are unrelated to any kind of technical analysis.

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I buy the NQ every 15 minutes and hold it until it goes up. If it doesn't go up, I don't buy it. I learned it from Will Rogers.

Call me Vidvad - I day trade futures

Since my roulette epiphany a week and a half or so ago I've been trading an NQ method that only can trigger a set up entry after the close of 15 minute bar. Once there is a trade, win or lose, I must wait until the close of the current M15 bar to ...

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It would not be a triggered HOLO long. image

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Failed to break higher and gave an easy HOLO short during the Frankfurt/London Opens. This is what I mean when I Say HOLO is a "same day" method. One reason you see a lot of FF members have problems implementing it is that they want there to always ...

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I've always treated HOLO as a "same day" method. I just pulled up the GBPCHF on my ToS platform, and I'd be long targeting 1.1237xx, and I would think that it will trade somewhere between 1.1237 and 1.1255 image

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Well, I was trying to be friendly and give it a go. Had I known someone pissed in your cheerios this morning I'd have saved myself the effort and put you on ignore straight away.

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I don't really understand what you are asking and I think that might indicate that you are making this more complicated than it was originally intended to be. The green line is the daily open. If I had taken HOLO short entries on this pair on this ...

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From TooSLow's post #1: image No need to make it any more complicated than that, imho.

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The only time I would back off on an entry is if price broke and held above the previous day's high or below the previous day's low. As TooSlow says, that is "breakout mode." HOLO is a reversal strategy, so when the market is breaking out, then ...

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Great point about the purity of the HOLO process! I use HOLO to trade CL, and I have found that the easiest way to for me to trade the method is to simply watch hourly candles, and I keep a yellow line on my chart at the current highest open and ...

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Tat was me toward the end of my day today: I just didn't want to take an L. I truly appreciate your comments here in my journal kthrapp. Thank you, and have yourself a great weekend as well!!

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My string of losses today were actually all set up trades. Typically the NQ moves at least +1R in my favor, at which point the stop loss moves to breakeven. Today, however, the first three trades were entered with very little favorable movement ...

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Done for the week and today was my lowest performance of the week. Very much a trading range market in the NQ today and the result was a bunch of -1Rs and a couple +multi-Rs. The net result for the day is a touch short of +1R day. I trade five ...

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Thanks, Ed, what a trip you and I've been on together!

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I first watched the video I posted above that had such an impact on me last week on November 13th. It shook me to my core and I took a few days to really examine myself and my beliefs about the market and trading. This is what my equity curve looks ...

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Thanks Blue! And, Blue, my friend, I appreciate your framing my breakthrough as one of process. I'd like to stress to others reading this journal that my breakthrough has nothing to do with any particular trading method or system. In fact, I am ...

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