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First off I posted this here, because I value the opinions of this group, and didn't really want a bunch of responses from the masses.

So I spent the last couple of months learning to read the price action on the DOM and have been making trades, now I am at the point that I am consistently hitting winners, and I am up 10% in the last month, on 20 trades.

However I see a lot more trades than I take... I don't know why I don't pull the trigger. Today I had the hand on the mouse when the E-Mini was hovering around 61, I didn't see it going much lower as the buying was absorbing all the selling, but did I take the trade? NO.

I could understand maybe being gun shy if I was on a losing streak, but that is not the case.

Any advice you guys could offer to help me overcome this?

Thanks
 
wino59 said:
First off I posted this here, because I value the opinions of this group, and didn't really want a bunch of responses from the masses.

So I spent the last couple of months learning to read the price action on the DOM and have been making trades, now I am at the point that I am consistently hitting winners, and I am up 10% in the last month, on 20 trades.

However I see a lot more trades than I take... I don't know why I don't pull the trigger. Today I had the hand on the mouse when the E-Mini was hovering around 61, I didn't see it going much lower as the buying was absorbing all the selling, but did I take the trade? NO.

I could understand maybe being gun shy if I was on a losing streak, but that is not the case.

Any advice you guys could offer to help me overcome this?

Thanks
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Hi Wino, I can only ask a few questions and give what little I know
I used to fear entering, as I never knew what the expected outcome was. After I entered I exited as I was afraid of losing what little profit I had, again because I didn't know the expected outcome..
Of course none of us know with certainty, but my past results were my indicator for future probability, as long as the conditions were the same.
So I concentrated on making sure my condtions were always the same (I even have stats based on combinations of conditions)
so my questions would be..
can you know whether your conditions for entering now are the same as yesterday? If its more a hunch thing, then I might look for something more rigid.
Now when I enter, I am confident and I never exit unless its met my target or the exit sign is there.
I still have room for discretion but im still able to calculate those stats and they have only gone to prove the original backtest results. Now I trade my plan to use that old cliche, and it has changed all my bad habits.
Hopefully you can find something in this because I used to really beat myself up
 
Malaguti,

I used to trade on technical analysis and would be in trade for a month to three, depending on the trade.

Now I day trade futures based on the orderbook, I don't always do the same thing in same set of criteria, because it could go either way, so I sit a watch at those points, and I know it is going to go 4 to 8 ticks, however I hesitate waiting on confirmation then the next thing I know the trade has already went in the direction I thought, but it is too late, as it moved 4 ticks and I missed it.

I guess it is just a different animal, and I am just going to have to get a pair, and start firing as soon as I see a setup. It is just not that easy for me.
 
wino59 said:
First off I posted this here, because I value the opinions of this group, and didn't really want a bunch of responses from the masses.

So I spent the last couple of months learning to read the price action on the DOM and have been making trades, now I am at the point that I am consistently hitting winners, and I am up 10% in the last month, on 20 trades.

However I see a lot more trades than I take... I don't know why I don't pull the trigger. Today I had the hand on the mouse when the E-Mini was hovering around 61, I didn't see it going much lower as the buying was absorbing all the selling, but did I take the trade? NO.

I could understand maybe being gun shy if I was on a losing streak, but that is not the case.

Any advice you guys could offer to help me overcome this?

Thanks
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so review your system to ensure nothing subconcious is providing doubt - and then follow it to the letter ..........something is still telling you its not 100% comfortable with you - yet :cool:

also losing is part of the game .......you cannot remove losses so you have to wear it :innocent:

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wino59 said:
I could understand maybe being gun shy if I was on a losing streak, but that is not the case.
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I think you are being gun shy because you don't want to start losing and you haven't quite reconciled taking a loss.

Pull the trigger and normalise losing.

The reason I know is because this used to happen to me too. Runs of 8/9/10 winners on the bounce and then I would take a loser and my trading would fall apart for a little while.

The other advice proffered about knowing when to and when not to trade by malagutti and just pulling the trigger also occurs in discretionary trading - you probably don't have enough screen time to realise this yet otherwise you probably wouldn't have disagreed with what he said.

Start pulling the trigger and taking the losers. The screen time will build up on its own.
 
Keep a journal and stats.

When you see it in the numbers that you have an edge then you know that the more you pull the trigger the better.
 
I have seen in forums that you should get a mentor to follow when learning daytrading. To me that is cr@p. I have been improving my daytrading skills and finally actually being able to trust my system enough to trade it. Scalping a couple ticks here and there allows me to get a feel for the different movements the ES can make and I have only learned from my losses. I am overly excited when I trade and can make mistakes based on my nervousness but trading time is helping- that is what it takes I guess.

Best of luck because I'm in the same boat here.

Cheers
 
The forex is one of the most profitable investment models that exists, but to make money in it you have to familiarize yourself, learn new concepts and have patience, and above all, a great control of the emotions.
It is necessary to plan taking into account the objectives that have and the limits that can be reached.
 
wino59 said:
First off I posted this here, because I value the opinions of this group, and didn't really want a bunch of responses from the masses.

So I spent the last couple of months learning to read the price action on the DOM and have been making trades, now I am at the point that I am consistently hitting winners, and I am up 10% in the last month, on 20 trades.

However I see a lot more trades than I take... I don't know why I don't pull the trigger. Today I had the hand on the mouse when the E-Mini was hovering around 61, I didn't see it going much lower as the buying was absorbing all the selling, but did I take the trade? NO.

I could understand maybe being gun shy if I was on a losing streak, but that is not the case.

Any advice you guys could offer to help me overcome this?

Thanks
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If you think that you can effectively daytrade the ES/NQ based on text book stuff..then you will be waiting a long long time.

For starters..you have no mention of Time of Day..as can be very important when trading the ES/NQ..if you do not know why then this in itself should tell you that you do not really know what you are doing.

Before you start jumping up and down..I am trying to help you..so..think before you reply!

You can not say that the ES/NQ will not go lower or higher from where it is..no person can..all you can do is trade it..so..make sure you learn how to place low risk trades..again..if you do not know what constitutes a low risk trade with the ES/NQ then you really should not be trading the ES/NQ

You will get sucked into the ES/NQ very quickly..and if you are not careful you might lose a good bit of money..and this could well be in just one day!
 
wino59 said:
First off I posted this here, because I value the opinions of this group, and didn't really want a bunch of responses from the masses.

So I spent the last couple of months learning to read the price action on the DOM and have been making trades, now I am at the point that I am consistently hitting winners, and I am up 10% in the last month, on 20 trades.

However I see a lot more trades than I take... I don't know why I don't pull the trigger. Today I had the hand on the mouse when the E-Mini was hovering around 61, I didn't see it going much lower as the buying was absorbing all the selling, but did I take the trade? NO.

I could understand maybe being gun shy if I was on a losing streak, but that is not the case.

Any advice you guys could offer to help me overcome this?

Thanks
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Freezing is a stress related issue , try stress management techniques and read about the stress response .This will help you understand the mind freezing .

It could be analysis paralysis , keep your trading simple.
 
Do you keep a record of your missed trades?

The reason I ask is that it's easy to see the results of our actual trades, but unless you keep a record of your missed trades then our memories of those trades could be tainted. Even keeping track of missed trades can be tainted. It's easy to include the ones where we were just about to press the buy trigger and then saw it rally and not include the ones we were almost just about to press the buy trigger and see them tank.

Perhaps you should run a demo account alongside your actual account? This will throw up if there is a real problem with you missing trades, or just something you feel you're doing wrong.

Hope that helps.

For completeness I'm not currently 'winning' at trading so please take everything I say with a huge dollop of salt.
 
Many traders are constantly losing money simply because they don't keep their trade statistics. This is a very big mistake in my opinion, because it is impossible to make corrections of mistakes without statistics
 
wino59 said:
First off I posted this here, because I value the opinions of this group, and didn't really want a bunch of responses from the masses.

So I spent the last couple of months learning to read the price action on the DOM and have been making trades, now I am at the point that I am consistently hitting winners, and I am up 10% in the last month, on 20 trades.

However I see a lot more trades than I take... I don't know why I don't pull the trigger. Today I had the hand on the mouse when the E-Mini was hovering around 61, I didn't see it going much lower as the buying was absorbing all the selling, but did I take the trade? NO.

I could understand maybe being gun shy if I was on a losing streak, but that is not the case.

Any advice you guys could offer to help me overcome this?

Thanks
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Hey, hope this article will help. Cheers.

https://www.tradingminds.net/blog/why-meditation-effective-path-to-trading-success
 
We all have experienced the same thing. It is okay. Just keep the journal and keep practicing and see what was wrong and was right. You will get there.
 
jameks said:
The main thing is never to give up. Life is a rather difficult thing, and it’s quite difficult to achieve results just like that. So I would advise you to reconsider your views, analyze errors and work on yourself!
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A generic response that would not be out of place on any thread on this site.
I'm surprised you didnt mention your 'favorite' fx platform on this post, most others do.
 
Humans hate uncertainty and discomfort

Trading is 100% of both these things ....

So learn to love them or at least tolerate them ......

or dont trade .........
 
NVP said:
Humans hate uncertainty and discomfort

Trading is 100% of both these things ....

So learn to love them or at least tolerate them ......

or dont trade .........
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I see what you did there.
 
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