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Monday 6/24/2019 I had a well-being score of 7/10 this morning. My nerves were not as good as recently, so I decided to trade at $25 risk today not the planned $30. Also, I changed my DAS setup to help with partialling, so maybe it’s not wise to change two things on my DAS setup on the same day. I took two live trades with FB. FB premarket action and volume was good. It sold off immediately at the open and I was waiting for the rebound and bullish hammer. One did form about 2.5min after the open and I went long. The candle was still slightly red when I took the trade but still quite bullish looking. My target was the high of premarket at 193.39 with a stop out level at 192. It tried a couple of times to break the 192.50, but couldn’t and retraced to my stop out where I exited. Now why did I not use the 200MA-1min I am not sure. I probably thought the 192 level, which coincides to the 200-5min, was strong enough. Any way I was wrong and the price instantly reversed as I exited the trade. What it looked like when I took the trade: FB bounced at the 200MA-1min and I went long again at the VWAP. Same target but the 200MA-1min as my S/O. It took quite a bit of self-control to hold until the new 1min high before I take my first partial. I also reduced the size of my first partial. I took my next partial at the 50MA, then I lost my nerve and took two bad partials. At that point I told myself the next partial is at my target (high of premarket) or S/O level. It took 3 minutes but it reached that level. I decided just to partial not exit since it may run once it breaks that level. It didn’t and I exited when it made a 1min low. My score card for today: What I did good today: Recovered quickly from the S/O and quickly took another trade without feeling the need for revenge. How did I challenge myself today? Used a smaller first partial. My first and last partial I waited patiently. What I did bad today: Partials 3 and 4 were still bad. What can I do better tomorrow: Over all partialling was better than usual. Still need more time to improve on it.

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Thanks, it was a rough week. I am going to have another one in the middle of July where I won't be able to trade for the week.

Hi Mike, good to see you back.

Week of June 17 - 21, 2019 - $AMD x 3 (Partial, Early Stop, Partial) This was an extremely busy week at work for me, which prevented me from trading Monday through Wednesday. Then when I got back into trading, work took over in the after and prevented me from really being able to focus on trading and journaling. I made the decision on Thursday that I would just post a weekly recap this week until I got back into my normal routine. The only day I took trades was Thursday, and I my analysis at the end of the day was simple. I was trying to force my indicators and confirmations to appear so that I took a trade after being out Monday through Wednesday. As you can guess this did not work out well, but I was happy that I was able to manage my losses. Friday was a much better day, although I did not take a trade. Nothing appeared that meet my trading plan, so I called it a day and headed home for the weekend to reset and get ready for Monday. I am definitely ready to get back to my normal weekly routine on Monday. Sample Set Results, P P P S P S P P P P S G P S P 16 17 18 19 20

happy to hear it! what's your youtube channel if you dont mind

Hi Tommy, just checking to see how things are going. Are you still trading? After your post I looked up Mount Yotei. I can definitely see why you like it. It also reminds me a bit of Mount Lassen here in California, though Mount Yotei is much more majestic. I have been waiting for my kids to be old enough so we can hike up Mount Lassen into the crater. As for bears I had one close contact in all my years of hiking and trail running. One day I broke one of my running rules (trading rules are not the only rules I break) and I did not slow down to walk around a blind corner on the path. So I ran around the corner to see a bear growling and running at me. Luckily this was on the east coast of United States so it was a black bear which are not very aggressive. Hope things are well and will see you again in the forums.

I really like this idea, maybe if Andrew can replay some of his live trades and provide commentary on what he is looking at in the price action, level 2 and T&S while looking for the setup.

Should be this week, had what Norm had last week (no voice) and finished testing the last of the changes today, so I'm ready to record it now. I added a new set to be able to add to (scale-In) an existing position by a set $Risk amount. So if you're long with $100 risk and want to add to it on a pullback, you can setup a Hotkey of +$20 (or whatever) and it'll calculate the shares to keep your current position + new position at the new combined $120risk. Yeah, it's been a very long time coming. This next update will likely be the last for the Excel versions, as I'm moving development to a standalone (it'll be open-source) application. It'll bring added features such as allowing users to put the Hotkey config directly into DAS (so no copy/pasting), and updating/tweaking. So as traders grow and want to update their parameters, they don't have to fiddle around ... just open the app and enter the new value, hit save.

I always considered the Risk Controls more like a safety belt in a car. Although, you know how to drive, you never know what the other drivers are going to do, so the safety belt is there to keep you safe.