I think it is because each week I am less and less negative. This week was only minus 13 points. Last week was minus 24, the week before that, minus 83. I'm kind of half joking and half not. This week was tough. Although the market is in full Bull mode it seems making new All Time Highs each day, it is difficult to trade in the morning first thing, and as I've said before, my strategy can struggle in particularly volatile markets where candles will swing from Bullsih to Bearish with each passing minute.
But, all I can do is continue to trade my strategy and take each trade as they come. I struggled a little bit this week with some Scalpers Remorse. For example I closed a trade at what I though was a good level, only to watch it breakthrough without me. I also held trades and let quite a few go from 13/15 points of profit, to Breakeven. I was kind of in two minds about trading/ scalping. At the end of the day I need to really heed my own advice -
My job when I trade is to make points, but, I don't have to make ALL the points.
Now obviously I'm not going to regress all the way back to when I first started trading, and close a trade as soon as it's 4 or 5 points in profit, but if I have decided from watching the markets from 0800 - 0840 (when I get ready to place my first trade) that I am going to scalp, then I will scalp and if a trade takes off without me, so be it. And vice versa. If I decide to trade, I will not be sad when I get stopped out for zero after being so many points in profit. This for me, apart from 'staying in an active trade' is one of the hardest parts of trading, because, it's so subjective. But the most important thing, now matter what I decide to do on the day, is to stand by my decision and know that I made, at that particular moment, what I thought was the best decision.
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