I just did a quick look at one of my charts using a 200 day MA. Win some lose some - overall - not enough of a difference to warrant keeping it my chart. So I looked at your last statement - risk appetite- what does that mean? I like to eat risk for ...

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My Week I didn’t change my settings for the week. I did take one pair I was following off the table. I started with a lot of pairs for two reasons. One to get practice evaluating CZ’s and two because I was afraid I wouldn’t get enough CZ’s in a week ...

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What is your answer to your question and what is the basis for your answer? Are you more confident or less because you are basing your set-ups with a monthly component that changes at least 12 times a year if you are using the current calender. I am ...

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I pretty sure I don't use the same broker and yet I was able to duplicate the chart - In truth, I could care less about someone else's settings because I am finding my own way to trade using SSBO. The only thing I do with settings posted on this ...

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My experience this week I did not change any of my settings. I entered and exited trades in a very robotic way only entering and exiting based on my settings. I spent more time entering trade stops and profits than I spent looking at price action. ...

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I go for the highest winning percentage because I get a higher take profit goal and I can always re-trade a CZ as your higher percentage chart shows. It may have 2 less trades but clearly one would be able to easily re-trade one of the cz's based on ...

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I used to live in Sedona and still have a property there. Some of my favorite memories are snowy days and thunderheads above the red rocks. I now live on the beach in San Diego. So walking on the beach is part of my lifestyle. Walk on the beach or ...

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I started the week off with a commitment to not change my settings. I was doing well until I read FH’s post on risking more than I was gaining on a trade. Now I had taken that into account on my daily trade set-ups what changed for me was what would ...

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It's a classic Catch-22: Which part of the equation is the one I should pay the most attention to: The fact that I can reach TP faster than normal, or the fact that I can be stopped out easier than normal?[/quote] The question wasn't specifically ...

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I think that happens when you have the sunday candle before the Toyko open invoved in the box beginning.

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Many of my posts are rhetorical in nature. I generally only reply to posts or questions that have mass appeal. What more can I say - The journal is something I am still working on - do I hand write it so that the kinesthetic aspects of muscle ...

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No, the real focus of the excercise is your trading diary, and how detailed you care to make it. Thank you for the feedback. I have been working on my trading journal and spread sheet since I began with your thread. It is asked of me on page one. I ...

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Why 15 – 21 weeks of not changing my settings has to be done for me to meet my goals. Mark Douglas – Trading in the Zone. I need to learn to adjust my attitudes and beliefs about trading in such a way that I can trade without the slightest bit of ...

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But no matter what, do not touch these settings until the 15 weeks is over. If you keep changing your parameters every time it drops below 74%, then you will never have anything except untrustworthy curve-fit results.[/quote] 15 weeks!!! I am ...

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I committed myself to post a chart this week. Only had one trade that met my criteria. Because it is a holiday for the US I closed out at the quick profit and will come back next week. image

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My experience so far This is a long post by FF standards: Take heart there is a gem or two in it. Truth; I had a tough week last week, no confidence in what I was doing – I got lost in the minutia of settings. Then I put in alarms and found myself ...

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quick question, I looked at your settings which are very similar to mine - so I had that feel good sense of getting it right until I saw that you had a stop loss of 2.4 pips - now how did you do that - and if that was your stop loss how did you not ...

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Totally off base, I have several accounts for the very reason you described - and I take money out of my account as well to preserve my capital, I just became a better trader when I took the mind set "its my money and I earned it." I just expressed ...

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Altos, though I have just finished the thread and am working on doing 40 trades to evaluate my performance, I read your post with misgivings. Basically, in my world, there is no free money or house money, I worked hard to gain every dollar in my ...

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