20131220
Short 2 TF 1127.6, 1127.6, +0.7, +1.2
Short 1 TF 1127.7, -0.5
Short 2 TF 1129.7, 1129.6, -0.0, -0.5
Short 2 TF 1130.8, 1130.8, -0.5, -0.5
Short 2 TF 1131.8, 1131.7, -0.4, -0.5
Short 3 TF 1132.4, 1132.3, 1131.9, +0.7, +0.5, +0.9
Total TF +1.1
Monthly Totals Dec 2013
Total ES -0
Total YM +152
Total NQ +31.75
Total TF +45.8
Persistent Trend Days are perhaps the most challenging of all day model patterns. The signals for their appearance can arrive with subtlety. Today, I saw those signals very clearly, and posted them in the chat room, and yet, I did not take the corresponding trade entry models buy signals that appeared subsequently in the YM and NQ contracts that would have allowed me to participated in the ensuing advance that was led by the run-way TF Leadership Shift. On many days I remain flexible as to contract choice and suffer no hesitation in taking trades where I find them outside of the favored TF contract. My reluctance today was inexplicable, and cost me the day's profit quota. Stay focused. The object is to win your profit goals, not have it 'your way'. Only Frank Sinatra did it his way. The rest of us do it by what ever means is offered. No trades for the rest of holiday period until Jan. So I wish all a very Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, and Happy New Year.
