watch this video. can be interesting

I keep trading as I mentioned below and traded price actions not the patterns and has %7 DD in minutes.
this is the difference between price actions and patterns.

I will recover from here with patterns. I am trading like that due I want to train my self to recover.

   nordic_ posted:
   this was a big war between buyers and seller. and sellers won. I can post here many 1min chart screen shots how war was wild, long and painful.

I had %1.166 today. if I would trade live I would stop. but on demo I will keep trading

Steve, considering your small target of 5 pips what's matter for you if GU break to downside or not? consolidation must be your bread and butter.

when you trade 1min chart with 5 pip target you can understand what I mean.

No, my spread is 5 pips. I am looking for more pips obviously. must overcome the spread.

sure you can not trade with 5 pip spread. I mean there is no difference between 1min chart and 1 Hr chart. only speed is different.

as I had mentioned below. I kept trading and traded different patterns and price actions. Lost down to -%11 ( totally -%15 from where I was ).

now again started to trade only patterns with tighter SL/exit level. currently I am up to -%7.80 ( 2.20 recovered )

if I can recover from here and got up then will start trading live again.

also then I will share why I tested this action. I guess I had an idea why traders making mistakes in winning periods and start loosing.

   nordic_ posted:
   this was a big war between buyers and seller. and sellers won. I can post here many 1min chart screen shots how war was wild, long and painful.

I had %1.166 today. if I would trade live I would stop. but on demo I will keep trading

Ok. I got up to -%6.65 ( daily +%1.20 ). then keep trading and start to make mistakes.
I should find why I start making mistakes after daily %1-1.5 level break.

I also improve the RR ratio to 1:1.20
it is almost 1:1 which is great.

But I should find the mental reason of why I start making mistakes after certain profit level. actually I am not looking for daily %5 %10. that is not the point the point is why I change my trading desecions after some point of level????

what I noticed is ( thanks to MFB ) price actions catch me when US open hours. and I enter the trades that I must not enter.

another fault is, when I guess the price move and if it goes as I had predict and when if I did not take that trade, I took the next move no matter what even if I know that it will fail and after I see I made a mistake I dont exit and insist on stay in trade most probably until SL hit.

I may punishing myself with the looser one that I did not take the winner???????????

   nordic_ posted:
   another fault is, when I guess the price move and if it goes as I had predict and when if I did not take that trade, I took the next move no matter what even if I know that it will fail and after I see I made a mistake I dont exit and insist on stay in trade most probably until SL hit.

regarding to my trading hours, most of the time I make profit before US open and when US open I cought by the price actions and open wrong trades. I think this is the main issue for me currently. first I must stop that mentally then will go back to live.
not trading at US hours is not an option. I must fix the mental error, stop trading US hours is only will hide it.

before US session I am up to %0.58 today. I am clean no Drugs(GRID)!
if it would be live I would NOT stop. I will keep trading US and want to break that mental limit.

   nordic_ posted:
   Ok. I got up to -%6.65 ( daily +%1.20 ). then keep trading and start to make mistakes.
I should find why I start making mistakes after daily %1-1.5 level break.

today I had %2.50 including some US session.( I am counting 0.01 Lot trade 0.10 I had a I loaded wrong template if not %2.00 )

I stop here. it is good to have some positive trades in US session. I guess I understand the reasons. I will post it later.

stop.

reasons
- after some hours I lost the focus. I need to leave trading for some minutes after every trade. this reset mind.
- most probably I start US session with profit and this make me over trusted.
- If I stop trading in mind and then start trading after that desecion again I make huge mistakes.
- due to start US session in profit(most probably) I start saying 'try this' instead of 'xxxx pattern' and after entering that 'try' when trade goes against me I got angry and wait until SL.(SUICIDE)

So my desecion is I will stop trading and shut down machine after having a reasonable profit/loss.

as you can see from the account history SL are so tight and there are no more grid and rescue operations. I am still having max 2 trades on some trades to average the price. due no one can know how much it will pullback. but those 2 trades using the first opened trade SL at the same level. means I DO NOT WIDEN SL AFTER OPENING THE 2 TRADE.

and there are examples of SL hit averaged trades at the history.

a lot of things had been changed until I start 'pattern' system but I guess I am at the wright track with
- cancelling rescue operation
- tigtenning SL


the trades at the history with 1-2 PIP profit/loss are the exits of damaged patterns after entry.

walker

in week time %40 of total trades are traded at asian+eu session and the rest %60 traded at us session. this value also shows how my trading activites are changing in us hours.

this how I trade

when I feel better will increase the lot from 0.1Lot 1000$equ to 0.2Lot 1000$equ. while using Hard Stop when system works no worries.

daily Pivot is the actual support
notice RR ratio regarding to SL TP ratio.