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Mental Stuggles Facing Traders

Wednesday, July 6th, 2011

I will first post my trades for the day in the S&P emini futures (July 6th, 2011 ) and get into a lesson we can all benefit from below.

Mental struggles facing traders has been going on since day one. Keeping our minds sharp and objective is key. Not seeing what we want from the markets, but only the reality of what is happening before us. Your mind needs to be sharp and alert to accomplish that. Always keeping your emotions in check is essential. Greed will wreck your day, if you let it. Revenge trading is just as bad. Most traders who have been at this, know exactly what I mean.

Seeing your trading as you wish it be is a start. You need to get a vision of the perfect day in your mind and allow yourself to exercise it to make it become reality. If you have fear on your mind of not wanting to make a mistake, you are going to knot yourself up to the point you will loose the edge. Our mindset is key to our success and those who are willing to challenge themselves to change and get in sync with the market are the ones who overcome.The mental struggles facing traders are real and overcoming them is where real victory is found.

Rehearsing your trades over and over again in your mind is a good exercise. See yourself entering at your low risk entry point, what ever that is for you, and take what your method is calling for. I prefer many times short term trades, as there are many of those in each session to choose from. If you miss one, another is coming. If you want the home-run trades, be willing to wait and sit through a lot of market data for that to come together, as they come much less frequently.

As traders we are drawn to the markets for what it can offer, financial freedom, but what about time freedom. That to is often mentioned but those that site that as a major benefit, usually don’t take advantage of it as they are on there journey. Time is something you never get back and for me is a high ranking value that I cherish. With it, I can do the things that have and bring true meaning to my life. Things that can make a difference in the lives of others and so on. That only happens when you have a clear vision of what you see and want your life and trading career to be. That is why I prefer short term trading as I mentioned, because it allows me to spend a limited amount of time in front of the screen and get my bread so to speak for the day. This is done by design and it can happen for you as well.

Again, see the perfect trading day. You wait for your method setup to come together, you enter, you wait and you exit as the market dictates. If enough profit is reached, you walk away. If the trade is modest, you wait and wait, enter, wait- then exit. At that point, you can be done for the session and enjoy the time freedom you dreamed of when trading for living was given birth.

To sit and try and trade all day, everyday, you will become tired and make mistakes. Your patients will slow and you will see things that are not there to try and line up with what you want. Trading for a living is not about being right all day long. You only need be right for a trade, two or three and that’s it. If you are trading for income, then you need to trade like you are trading for income, not to feed your ego. There are other things you can do to satisfy that if you feel the need, but over-trading should not be one of them.

If you don’t know, I am speaking to myself just as much as speaking to those who follow me. That is one of the benefits I receive while writing my blogs. To help hold myself accountable is a very good thing. Which reminds me, all traders should have a trading journal to help hold themselves accountable for there trades. If you go outside your method, you will have to account for why you did that. If you don’t like the pain of having to write about that, then wait and only take the trades you understand.

Don’t be afraid of missing a trade. Notice I said, afraid.  That word has its roots in the word, “Fear”.  Fear can make you do some crazy things. Fear of loss is just as powerful as the desire for more, greed. Don’t be afraid of waiting, as many times the trade will come together a little better, but when its time to pull the trigger, just do it.

Another fear can creep in, fear of loosing and that will hold you back from entering at all. By the time you get the courage to enter the market after having missed many trades already, you will be setting yourself up for a loss and that is no way to trade.

Hope all of this helped someone out there. Trading for living is very possible, but you need the right mind set to allow yourself to bring it about. It all starts with a vision, do you have yours?

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Day Trading for Income

Saturday, August 14th, 2010

Today is Friday the 13th day of August and the Index’s were down slightly -16 on the Dow and -3.50 on the S&P futures.

I guess the market needed to take a breather from yesterdays sell-off, as we did not go to far in the session today. A very narrow range was not exactly what I was expecting. I thought it would start to pick up, but it did not. The market went back to sleep. Come Monday, it is going to have to show its hand if in-fact the support from Thursdays market is going hold. That is key support and if broken, we are in a bit of trouble as I see it. I expect a bounce off this current level of at least 20 S&P points, maybe a little more, come the next few sessions. After the bounce, (if it comes) that is really the moment of truth for this market.

I talked about the market sentiment in yesterdays postings as the bearish sentiment dropped a lot. Last week we saw a 6% drop in bears as per “Stock Market news letter writers”. It went from 34% bearish to only 28%. That is significant, but the more important side is the bullish percent. That did increase from 38% to 41%, still a little on the light side. A figure of 35 is bullish and we are coming off of that now and a reading of 55 is bearish. This number does not have to get to the upper extreme for the market to sell off, just somewhere in the middle is enough. Tuesday the new numbers will be coming out and if we see a rally on those days, it could push the bullish camp to the middle of range and then the market can do what ever it wants from there. A strong signal a month ago has given only a modest market move, if in-fact this market is done, that I don’t know. One thing is for sure, one needs to play the price action as it relates. A big bounce will be setting itself up for a good predictive move either way at that point.

To better illustrate this, I have a “Daily Chart” of the S&P cash market up again as I did last week. I have new notes on it as I pointed out the potential for a big drop from last Fridays blog posting. Well, we did get the drop, now what. Go see the chart below and get the rest of the details of what we could expect.

In today’s trading, since the price action was so slow, I did not push it. I only had a few trades and called it a day. I had a little over 3 points gain and just 2 ticks of lose. It wasn’t to exciting, but trying to make something where there is little, is usually not a good idea. I could have went into scalp mode and tried to pick up a few more points, but when the prices are moving so slow and there is little volume, I really don’t like it. I would rather wait. My trades are below.

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Trading for a living is a traders dreams and at times dreams do come true. For this dream to come true, one needs to have a trading plan and a back up trading plan from the first one. Things do not always work out the way we would like, but having a trading plan to begin with, puts you miles ahead of other traders who have none.  Finding the best trading instrument is also something one needs to contend with. I find that trading individual stocks are easier to trade than the S&P emini’s in a general sense, but I enjoy the trading leverage that comes with futures trading.

I find that trading for income is much easier than trying to trade all day for the sake of trading. If its the money we pursue, than trading discipline and patients is going to be in high demand. Without a high degree of trading discipline and the patients to go with it, you will end up working against yourself.

Traders do not realize that they themselves are there biggest obstacle to overcome. Read that last line again. That is right, we end up derailing our efforts to often by our lack of discipline and need for action. If a trader trades for income, then he gets what came for and leaves to enjoy the freedom that day trading was supposed to offer, or that is how it is supposed to work.

With the high degree of trading leverage that emini futures trading offers, you really don’t need to trade all day. Consistency in capturing 2-4 points per day on most days, with windfall days 2-3 times a month, should do the trick nicely. If a higher income is what you want, mastering the daily goal is the first place to start with small trading size. After that goal has been reached, then slowly increasing your size to the desired income level is next.

If an emini trader could master the 2-4 points a day average, highs and lows, including loosing days, which is 60 S&P points per month, x that by $50 dollars per contract traded and you have $ 3,000 per month. That is your minimum profit for one contract traded for the whole month. It not a lot of money, but increasing that slowly over the course of a year, could easily take you to 20 contracts. Now that is serious money, 20 x $3,000 or $60 K a month.

Increasing is an option and has its own set of psychological problems, but those limitations are usually our own inability to allow us to earn more. Our own self worth needs to be evaluated and we need to give ourselves permission to reach all of our financial goals as our plan calls for.

To day trade 20 lots in the emini market a trader really only needs about 20k in his account to put on a trade with that size, based on the trading leverage that is available to him. Each S&P point is then worth $1,000 dollars. That is a lot of bread, but that works against you just the same. Trading with that kind of leverage is definitely not advisable, but for every 3-4 thousand dollars of increased profits, one could over 3-4 months find themselves at that 20 lot level. Even averaging 2 points a day (40 points a month) will get you their in 5-6 months and give you the ability to take money out of the market each week.

It first starts with us and our mental attitude. Controlling greed and our emotions, while we trade for income. This is a marathon, not a sprint. Keep your trading funds safe until you truly posses the trading edge, then live your trading dream. (Part coming next posting)

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Day Trading for Income

Thursday, February 25th, 2010

Today is Wednesday February 24th and the market is holding up.

I will show a chart of what is going below, this may help create a better picture of where we go next. But first, the daily momentum is up, the hourly, is up with the weekly down and monthly up. There seems to be more momentum on the upside right now and we did today put in an inside day. This creates pressure in the middle. We now have a pivot point established above us with yesterdays high and we did bounce off of some very strong support late yesterday and early today that I missed in my market assessment. The chart to the right will help explain.

In todays S&P E-Mini  trading, I took two trades and scaled out of it as follows; + 1 point +1.75 points + 2.50 points and flat for the second. I come up a little shy of 2 net points but that is all I felt like trading today. Still very good, because it was painless. Scaling out of the first part of the trade on strength, actually weakness because I was short, takes a bit of the pressure off. I often do that, even if I think it is going lower. A lot of it has to do with how I am feeling. By taking part of the trade-off, it releases a certain amount of anxiety over the trade. Everyone has some anxiety when they trade, admitting it or not, it is still there to some degree. Getting control of it and not letting it control you is key. Managing the trade in a low risk manner, helps to release some of the unknown, because now you have an element of certainty to the trade, you have taken a profit on a portion of it and you have reduced your exposure on the remaining contracts.

There are times when I feel very strongly about a move and have my position open with no targets. In fact that is now how I usually trade, a stop always in place with the exits open. Many times the market will burst up or down and I will be able to take advantage of that move and start scaling out at 2-3 points first and up for the remaining.

This may not be the best way for everyone. If you are not quick with your decisions the market can move up 1.50 points and back down just as fast and you have nothing. Catching a quick 1 point trade with 3 contracts is a fast $150. Do it again and you have just made more money than most people make in a day, in fact more than some people make in a week, all inside of 20 minutes or so.

That was the kind of price action that was present in the first couple of hours. There were tons of trades available. Many for good runners and some for quick 1 point trades. How much is enough? To often, traders never seem to think that what they have bagged is enough.

Trading for 2-4 points a day is really plenty. By averaging 2 points a day, some days more some a little less because of a occassional stop out day, (-4 points for me), you will bag 40 points in a months time. If you are just trading 3 small contracts that is $ 150 x 40= $ 6,000 for the month or $72,000 for the year. OK, that is not really a lot of money these days, but it is something to build on. Being consistent is the first thing to best establish. If you can bring in that amount of points on a regular basis overall, trading up to 5 contracts is not much different. That puts you at 120k a year. That is a little better. Do that for a year and keep your head screwed on straight, not getting greedy and wanting and wishing for more. More will come, in its due time. When you have been faithful with what you have been given, more will be given to you. First be a good stewart of what you are able to do and make, then when the time is right, you can increase your size and watch your account grow, but again, don’t be in to much of a hurry.

In this business longevity is the name of the game. You want to “Last – Learn – & Earn”. Then, you can see yourself a bit more stable as a day trader. That is not what most do and it is unfortunate. Getting steady sound trading input is key to your survival. I try to do what I can for the readers of my blog. I don’t often talk about my exact method for trading, but I talk about everything else. If someone wants or needs training I offer that through my course and mentoring program. All of the other things are really just as important. You need both. Being mentally prepared and of sound mind with good judgement, able to exercise  ”strength of Mind”, Concentration, is vital to coming out on top.

I know for a fact that more people put a emphasis on the trade execution of trading than they put on the mental side of trading. The truth is, you really need both. One without the other, will do you no good. That is for sure. You can have the best trading method or system or what ever, but if you don’t or can not trade it, you will not profit, plain and simple. So many traders fall into that category, because they fail to realize that the difference is in the other part of trading that they have failed to pay attention to. They often times have a fairly good idea of how to make the trading game work for them, but just don’t seem to get it done.

I have been recommending as of late my free book on concentration. It has so much on the mental side of trading to help those who are seeking answers to problems they just can not exactly put their finger on. This could be the missing link. I am so sure it will help in some degree your trading efforts.

I sent the book out to some a few days ago and got back my first response. I was encouraged because he applied a few things that he read in the book and it helped him to string up several winning trades in a row. He was jacked, and told me that this stuff works.

That is what I really like to hear. It gives me encouragement to know I am helping people achieve their goals even if they are not a student of mine. The feedback eventually benefits me in some unseen ways and makes what I am doing much more rewarding.

So, I welcome your requests, and look for your feedback. Email your requests for the free book at vinnie@sniperdaytrading.com

Good trading to all !

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Have You Ever Asked Yourself, What Are You Trading For?

Wednesday, May 27th, 2009

Today is Tuesday, May 26th and the markets reacted off that now famous 880 support level once again.

Very interesting day today and I would have to say that I am not surprised. I have been leaving the door open for moves in either direction as long as the 880 S&P support is holding. What is happening now is evidence to base future direction on.

With today’s action, we are putting in what I call a “W” pattern. I have never heard or seen anyone use that term and rarely even reference the pattern. I don’t know why, actually don’t really care, because I seem to have very good success from reading these patterns in the smaller micro moves that happen all day long.

This pattern happens to be  very big, in looking at it from a 60 minute bar chart. The bigger the pattern the bigger the move, is usually how it works. I am keeping an open mind as to overall direction. We are close to the top of the “W” pattern, with maybe 10 points of potential upside. If the market gets over 925-930, that would be a significant development.

I don’t think that is going to happen right now. We should be contained to the upside around 920. Once hit, a reactionary move back down would be a normal price move, but there is a good possibility that it will be contained. What I mean is no big sell offs. There is a parallel channel based from the recent tops, bringing support back in around 847-850 or so. I don’t know if that will hold but it will probably bounce off that number. We’ll have to look at price action at that time if, in fact, that plays out.

My last post I had talked about how the open can set the tone for the rest of the day. Today, we had a sell off early, setting the stage for a break out after the hook was set. An early morning spike down to catch up with the futures and a great looking upside break with a lot of pressure built up over the holiday, good for over 20 points.

I did not get a chance to see that set up today. I started a little late, but that is one move I would like to think I would have been in. I did not enter on the way up, my data stream has been acting a little slow. I tried to enter a couple of times as a continuation pattern was developing, but I could not get the execution done. I am running SKYPE conference line and a screen sharing program and TRADESTATION with several charts up on two screens.  When the action slowed down, it seemed to be a bit better, but I missed some big moves there.

After all of that, I know that when you get a sustained move with velocity to it, at the top, it usually moves into the CHOP ZONE, that is what I call it. I love the chop, it usually works well for me when I switch to my scalping mode, 1/2 to 1 point trades with targets. The issue was, I was in what I call T-2 trade setups. That is when you have split targets, the first comes off early, the second comes off later at  higher levels.

If you are in the chop zone, you will often only get one target and not the other. This helps to offset your losses, but it does not take your equity up very fast if at all. Needless to say, I switched to my T-1 trades (Scalp) and picked up some nice little moves here and there that added up quickly. I have included a small screen shot of some of these trades below.

There are no indicators attached to them, but I do use them, just not showing you here. I do have one tool up, that helps spot directional changes to the price action. I can trade without any indicators and at times I do, just so that I do not depend on them in the future. Indicators are usually lagging behind price, that is why you want to be able to train your eyes to spot the moves independent of anything else. You will become a better trader if you start that process. In the mean time you can use some of these tools to help you see what is present in the chart that you are not able to see on your own, at least for now.

The trades that I am showing you below, are all timed to some of my custom indicators. Some are pretty standard that have adjustments made to them and others are used in conjunction with the first. They all work together to give you market reads that you may not be able to see alone. But remember what I said about these tools, its very important that any person who wants to excel as a professional day trader, learn how price action works in relation to all the other factors.

For anyone interested in trading, I have always said that if you are well rounded and can trade differently for different conditions, you will have an advantage. I do like to take trades that I can get 5 points plus in, but it usually starts out as a scalp. My stops are small,  (at times I start out at 4 ticks, but move it to 3 – 2) .

Have you ever asked yourself what you are trading for?  Many people will say, “for the money”.  Another question: Are you willing to leave your EGO aside to reach this goal?  Many people will not. If they are being brutally honest, they want to be right and have this conquering feeling of, “I outsmarted the market”.

If you are trading for income, that puts a different perspective on the whole thing. A modest daily goal of 2-4 points per day. Reaching for too much too fast, just because you think you can, will leave you with nothing. It is hard to take a 1 point profit on a trade and watch the thing go to the moon without you, but if you are trading for income, does it really matter? You only need one more good trade for a point and a little topper of  say a 1/2 point to make a daily wage. Trade 5 contracts and you have $500 for the day. That is $ 130,000 per year at only two points per day net. If it’s 3 points that puts you at $ 200,000 a year. I would say that 2-3 percent of traders make that kind of money. How’s that for perspective?

By learning how to scalp with very high percentage fills 80% or so, you have the ability to pick that up in less than an hour a day. You can always spot special set-ups that can give you the big moves on occasion. That is just the way I see it, how about you!

http://www.screencast.com/t/0nAW1ajnZ Some of today’s trades, still shot

http://www.screencast.com/t/drQHtn1lSG Today’s equity chart

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Video of Today’s Results with 9 to 1 profit/loss Ratio

Wednesday, May 13th, 2009

Today is Wednesday, May 13th and I decided to do something a little different from the start.

Today’s session was a little different in that I traded my bread and butter scalp trade setups – mostly. I took only a few trades for more, one I remember was for 3 1/2 points and a couple others were for two points or so. But the bulk of my trades were for only 1/2 point. I only had that mind set from the start. I wanted to show how I can scalp trade and only run a 2-3 tick stop for most trades.

In fact, since I am having a problem getting my equity chart to come up on Tradestation  (just not working?), I have a 5 minute video of the trades that I took below. Most all of the trades go past my target and that is fine, I was not worried about leaving points on the table, that was not what I was there for. There were some trades that I could not get filled in time at my price and that was ok as well. I show a few of them in the video. I have some of the trades identified as potential trades and that is all that they are, potential trades that I could have taken, but some of them are the ones that I could not get filled at my price.

Keep in mind, to get to my basic daily goal of 2 points, I only need 3 or 4 of those little trades to get it. That being said, my stats for this type of trading this morning is 24 gains and only 4 losses with a few even trades. The stops that I took were -2 ticks, -2 ticks, -1 tick, and -4 ticks but this one was only on 1 contract, the other half of the trade was a gain.

This did not happen by accident and it is repeatable. So many people cannot bring themselves to only trade for such a small amount, that they miss the possibilities. I am not saying that this type of trading is what everyone should do and not even myself for that matter. You need to be able to pull out different tools in order to build a house. If you only have a hammer and nails, that’s good, but you may not get the house you are looking for if you only have those tools in your bag. There is more that may be needed. Anyway, this is part of the method that got me out of trouble yesterday and I am giving you a glimpse of that type of market action today.

There is a set of conditions that are met every time to get these results and it most certainly is repeatable. If done right, you should be able to hit 80+ percent of your trades and still run a very small stop. Those are good odds, how ever you look at it. Now, as far as size is concerned, I dropped it down to only 3 contracts. I did not have to, but I did. With this high percentage trade, I could have been trading 10 contracts, easily.

Today’s results produced about $ 600 dollars profit per contract traded, in 3 hours and that is after commissions. So, since I was only running 3 small contracts, I added $1,800 with today’s results. If I had been trading the 5 contracts that I usually trade everyday, that would be 5 contracts x $ 600 per contract net  $ 3,000.  Ten contracts would be, $6,000 and 20 contracts brings it to $ 12,000 for the day. A few weeks ago I was trading at 10, but I brought it down to mostly 5 lately.

Anyway, that is pretty darn good. I was getting tired after 3 hours of this and that is why I stopped. It is a lot more than I usually do, but I was on a roll. I could feel that my concentration was slipping, so I took that clue as my sign to stop. I could come back after lunch and do it again, or trade sparingly for higher point returns, if the market is rolling, but either way, to be able to trade profitably at will is a great feeling and a nice boost of trading confidence.

We all need to remember to stay humble and I am speaking to myself right here. If I, or anyone else gets sloppy or trades without discipline, the market will bring you back in line or take you out. The second part is what usually happens. If anyone trades without a plan or method, you will most certainly be one of the ones that gets taken out, that is for sure.

You cannot think that you have greater trading knowledge than the traders on Wall Street, who do this for a living, and still come out ahead of them without a trading plan and or method. That is the problem with the small independent trader who thinks he has a handle on it. It takes time and without help, it could take years and a lot of money and you may still never get it. There are very few services out there that are of any real benefit to the small would be trader. Most never show you actually how the markets work and it can be confusing and frustrating for many. I never learned from anyone but myself and it took me a long time, but I am happy to say that this is a compilation of years of experience that has been tested over time. It works.

The great thing as I have said before is that this method can be traded on any instrument on any time frame. Mutual Funds, Stocks, Commodities, Forex, Futures, all of them work the same. In fact it is easier to trade higher time frames because it is very slow to develop and you have a lot of time to see things take shape. The downside of that is, you need a much bigger stop.  If daily charts are your thing, then by learning how to trade small time frames, you are exposing yourself to so many screen shots, over and over again. As time passes, you will get very familiar to what a good set-up is supposed to look like and then apply that knowledge to the daily’s.

Consider trading for income and a modest daily goal. It just could be what the Doctor ordered !

http://www.screencast.com/t/xMmWZHiAmI 5 minute video, to replace today’s equity chart

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Advantages of Short Term Trading, Part 2

Tuesday, April 21st, 2009

Today is Tuesday, April 21 and the markets had a nice positive reaction to yesterday’s sell off.

Yes, the market turned higher after it set itself up for a big rally. I did not catch any of that and came in once it was all over. At the top of the range, the market just consolidated back and forth, not making any head way for quite a while. I chose to trade small in this environment, just 5 contract, and that was really just fine. I put on 7 trades all with split exits, just in case I saw something that was worth staying in for. But I didn’t and only had small targets of 4-6 ticks. I ended up with 5 gains and 2 losses and about $550 dollars. A little less than I would like, but I would have had to wait the market out for directional changes and I did not want to do that today. For what I was trading, I hit my daily goal.

Yesterday, I wrote out a trading scenario that I am sure takes place every trading day across the world. It is people who only know how to trade one style. I don’t really mean to be critical of the people who trade for only large risk/reward returns, but if that is the only style of trading they are willing to put on, it could be holding them back.

For instance, yesterday the bulk of the drop came from the pre-market and there was very little in the way of catching a trend. If you were trying to trade like that yesterday, you most certainly were getting stopped out all day. The market had a downward bent to it, but very little in the way of directional swings. If  you see that is all the market is offering you and you don’t adjust yourself, you are going into the market closing underwater and not a happy camper.

I have noticed, after the market experiences a large run up or run down, that is the time it starts the choppy trading, with little direction. The market is trending only about 30%,  leaving 70% of the time in the CHOP.  So if you are looking for the big swings all of the time, you will definitely have your share of stop outs.

Some people are just fine with trading all day and there are those who can do it successfully. But most cannot and I think you need to find a way to bring the advantage to your side of the plate. When I tell people that I only use 4 or 5 tick stops, many have a hard time believing that. Well, it’s true, and I often target only 1 point. That’s a 1 to 1 ratio and seems to be flawed for many.

Everyone trades differently and I like the way I trade. When the market presents large swings, I can easily take advantage of it and when it does not, I am still walking away in positive territory for the day, until it offers me something different. The idea is to make money and do it consistently. I am sure there’s no argument there.

I feel if you can learn to scalp for small moves, you can trade any kind of market. It is easier to trade for more, once you know you entered at the lowest risk point, now exiting at higher levels as the market allows. If you only know how to get in, giving yourself a 3 or 4 point stop, you are limited to only taking trades consistent with that type of room. They do not come that often and you need a lot of patience to wait for it and when you get stopped out, you may have the tendency to take less than desirable trades after that, possibly incurring greater losses and ending the day with a large black-eye.

If you are or have suffered losses as your day starts out, one of the ways to change that is to get your confidence up by just taking a few small trades for profit. I remember one day a few weeks ago, I had so many 1 point trades, some for only 2-3 ticks too, but I had 30 some odd trades in a row like that. I think it was even more than that, but I don’t want to exaggerate, so I will underestimate it. The point is, 30 points or more for the day is off the charts. I did not worry that day if the move was a runner or not. I just took every trade as a short target. I had my best day ever. I was not preoccupied with the larger direction, just took what was in front of me. I am not saying that is the best way to trade, but that day, it worked great for me, as well as so many other days similarly have.

If you are down, the best trading tonic you can take is a winning trade. Then, sit up and order another, straight. Pretty soon, you are going to start feeling better about things. Don’t try and drink the whole bottle at once, you will get sick. Remember, trading is very much a mental game. If you don’t know how to play, you will most certainly lose.

Confidence is very important. When you know with a high degree of certainty that when you place an order, you will hear shortly after, TARGET FILLED, it’s a beautiful thing.

Trading for income is different than trading to get rich. Perspective and self control, is what’s needed to accomplish that. If you don’t have any, put your requests in and order yourself some, it could do wonders for your BOTTOM LINE.

http://www.screencast.com/t/PqDAJNrEF Today’s equity chart

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