20160112
Short 2 TF 1051.4, 1051.4, -0.0, -0.0
Short 2 TF 1052.6, 1053.5, +2.3, +2.0
Long 1 TF 1045.9, -0.7
Long 1 TF 1144.0, -0.0
Long 1 TF 1143.9, +0.5
Long 1 TF 1144.2, -0.7
Long 1 TF 1143.6, -0.7
Long 1 TF 1142.6, +3.0
Total TF +5.7
Trade management is a series of 'what-ifs'. There is simply no time to think otherwise. And in the case of a trade going a distance against you but not quite enough to stop you out, that what-if is best served as a reprieve. Pre-acknowledge that you can entered too early in some cases, and instead of trying to extend your luck, back out of the trade at break-even or near break-even when given reprieve. If indeed a true turn or break out is at hand, the market is now proscribing for you what the entry range for that position should have actually been. Reset your entry nearer the edge of that newly established range instead of the one you had assumed it to be. There, your entry now stands a better chance. This kind of what-if must be rehearsed, practiced, and re-rehearsed. You don't have time to think about it, or weigh the possibility that the outcome will finally benefit you. You entered poorly...at least according to what the market structure now tells you, so enter again at a better place, or forget the trade altogether and wait for the next larger swing signal opportunity to present itself later. If your system of acquiring market structure and support / resistance do not lend themselves normally to greater accuracy in the first place, then you are using the wrong methods of determining such things. Take the time to find and develop them. You can't rely on luck or crude methods for long in the world of stock index futures.
