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Took a full -10 pip SL on the first trade of the day. Just a few minutes after, the market exploded like I have never seen, violently swinging 40 pips at a time. Caught about 42 pips on playing the swings and had to close PRT and stop once my daily gain hit 4% and my heart rate hit about 180...

Did not trade today, but there was a beautiful reverse head and shoulders that developed an hour before NY close, and broke out 26 pips to the north. This is a trade I would have taken and probably tried to ride out for more than a 10 pip gain.

What a day .. up 25 pips, finished down 8. Funny, everything I traded before noon was winning. Everything after was a failure. Oh well, always another day to fight!

Still in revenge mode, but thinking harder and trying to exercise more patience. Just caught 15 pips off of a very interesting Asian market trade. Props to Bob Volman! :lol: I was so confident in this (my folly) that I set a stop loss of-10 (what's a tipping point?), and increased my TP to 25...

Today was certainly a test of will. Angry that my first TP did not automatically take after hanging out at +10 for a few seconds, and even more at myself for not manually closing the order (greed), I took a revenge trade shortly thereafter (greed), and then left my desk for an hour, with...

Caught another 5 pips in a nerve-wracking Asian market.

Thanks BLS, I will certainly keep that in mind.

One trade today, +10 pips on this morning's rally. Saw a few other potential trades today, mostly shorts, but was too nervous to trade any of them. One thing I noticed is that the day seemed to form a big head and shoulders pattern.

Additional chart. +3 pip

1 trade yesterday, 5 today. 5 winners, 1 loser. + 19 pips. I've been working on setting better stops, and find myself usually with a 5-7 pip stop. Really have to work on letting the profits reach their targets! Bob's ARB chapter really helped me learn about setting practical stops, and when...

Yes I am. I will try that, thanks for the reply!

How do you set up ProRealTime to do a bracket order at market, 10 pip stop, 10 pip take profit?I have been setting them manually.

First post to this thread. Thanks everybody -- I've read every page and tried to study every chart. I am enjoying Mr. Volman's book immensely. Still working on my ProRealTime template, but thought I'd upload my first trade ever with the platform today. Questions/comments welcome, of course...