Recent content by Timebomb

Just saved a signature in my profile and seeing if it works... EDIT: HUZZAH!!!

Plan! Right, plan is... Take a currency trade only if I see something that I can't pass on... ...and scalp the ES. Wish me luck. The account is pretty much on it's knees and begging for mercy. A little more down in the account and I will be in that very position too. :eek: Timebomb

Not seen any potential trades so far... will keep looking... it's going to have to be a fade I think... small stop.

Probably entertains me more than anyone. lol

I'm usually very attentive of my trades. Never really had a mistake like this before so not too bothered. Could easy have checked to see the account the same amount in green as it was in red.

Sounds a bit ludicrous to me too... but I'm open to anything and everything to explain things. But yeah, just forgot... in the same way that one might forget to lock their car, or leave a cupboard-door open and hit their head, that kinda thing.

...been thinking about the self-sabotage thing. Perhaps there is a certain level of [emotional/psychological] pain that my brain struggles on a day-to-day basis while trading and losing trades. I may feel fine, but am perhaps struggling more than I realise. Maybe my mind is trying to have me...

Cheers DD. I think you could be right. I know that you know what you're talking about. Just assessed the damage. 56% of account gone on that little adventure. Funny thing is... I like me. Well, at least I think I do. Why the hell would I want to not make myself do well?? wtf?! TB

Re: It's all academic... Cheers Adamus. Out of interest. I felt barely any emotional reaction to seeing it. Not saying that with an air of bravado - just fact. The amount of sh*t I've gone through in the last few years of learning to trade... I'm pretty jaded now... takes a lot to get some...

Wasn't an OCO. Forgot that I had cancelled the OCO and just ["temporarily"] put in unlinked SL and TP orders. Only me to blame there. Sweet.

Jeezus! Didn't realise anyone was actually reading it. lol I'll do a bit of musing. See what turns up. I have a bit of time. Cheers Omoh.

It's all academic... Just when I think things can't get any worse... Well you know that trade I got stopped out on? I forgot I left the target TP in. So woke up this morning to find half my account had evaporated. Hmmm... I now am fully-convinced I am self-sabotaging. I had thoughts about it...

Yes, channel is yellow lines - but I couldn't define it as a channel until price had reacted from the area drawn on. If I see something as less desirable, then perhaps, yes, I have a lower expectation of it working out. It makes it less desirable if it consolidated because my criteria is to...

Re: The trade... The more it consolidated the less desirable the trade would be. The faster the reaction off the [potential] channel the better.

A potential slippery-slope that one.