20140121
Long 2 TF 1172.8, 1172.8, +0.5, +1.0
Short 4 TF 1174.3, 1174.6, 1174.8, 1174.4, +0.5, -0.5, +0.7, +0.5
Short 2 TF 1170.2, 1170.4, -0.0, +1.2
Long 2 TF 1164.7, 1164.3, -0.0, -0.0,
Long 2 TF 1164.6, 1164.5, +1.0, +0.5
Total +5.4
Sometimes the best trades get by you. This can be discouraging. There's such an attraction to glory when trading, like swinging for the fence and catching those sudden sharp downdrafts like you knew it was coming. But the point to trading is to use your entry models and trade what matches them only. Today, I had matching models for both the early two downdrafts. The first I was shaken out of on all the chop, and the second I missed by having my pullback short entry a bit too high. In truth, I never saw the deepness of that 2nd downdraft coming, and had I actually been filled on the LMT short entry, I would most likely have exited at an initial new low and missed the extra extension to the full excursion anyway. What I can say is that I tempered my angst by keeping my head to find a long at the bottom. Stay focused. You can't catch them all.
