20140225
Short 2 TF 1172.8, 1172.7, +0.5, +1.4
Long 2 NQ 3678.0, 3677.25, -2.0, -1.0
Short 1 TF 1170.9, +1.4
Long 1 TF 1170.1, -0.1
Long 1 TF 1169.8, -0.8
Long 1 TF 1169.3, -0.7
Short 1 TF 1168.6, -0.6
Short 1 TF 1171.5, +1.2
Short 1 TF 1172.9, -0.5
PM Trades
Long 4 TF 1172.6, 1172.6, 1173.0, 1172.6, +0.7, +1.0, -0.0, +1.2
Total NQ -3.0
Total TF +4.7
I let myself trade outside my plan once in the 1st Frame just after the news, when the TTI momentum gauge should have filtered a stp-n-rev out of consideration. This was simply weakness and perhaps a lapse in focus. Since an earlier stp-n-rev to short worked out just higher up, I let go my guard and got cockey with a strategy that I've had so much trouble implementing, but at a place at the 2nd occurrence when better focus and discipline would have deterred me. This is what trading is all about. Total focus and adherence to the Plan. Good for me that a classic Trade Plan setup in the Midday Frame just after the Noon Hour that paid off well and brought me in towards the minimum daily goal--something last week's trading failed to accomplish. Stay focused....
