I learn alot from a bunch of people on this thread, but I learned a very important lesson from Karmo. The lesson of patience.
I have been following this thread since its beginning in late July, and little by little, Karmo's voice has been getting thru to me . . . PATIENCE!
Several months ago, I was a 10 and 20 pip scalper. If I left my screen for a moment, and came back to find a trade up 30 pips, I would almost pee myself with delight! I would jump on the mouse and close the trade at once.
It has been very hard for me to watch a trade go 50, 60, 100 pips into green,
and restrain myself from closing it. Don't get me wrong, I still enjoy scalping,
just today I had 14 trades (all winners of course, or I wouldn't be bringing them up). But just this week, I closed 4 trades with 300+ pips each.
I have 2 nice shorts open (already green), that I am going to ride down into hell. I have a separate acct I use for G/J, a mini that was just into 5 digits.
In the past 2 weeks I doubled it.
Now, I know undocumented bragging is frowned upon here, But I hope you folks will bear with me this once. When I try to talk to an Earthling about trading, they look at me like I have 2 heads.
Trading is a lonely business, and you folks are the only trading friends I have.
So without further ado, I got a present for Karmo. A Lamborghini Diablo!
Only problem is, I don't have an exporting license. So I will have to keep it here in safe keeping for Karmo.
I have been following this thread since its beginning in late July, and little by little, Karmo's voice has been getting thru to me . . . PATIENCE!
Several months ago, I was a 10 and 20 pip scalper. If I left my screen for a moment, and came back to find a trade up 30 pips, I would almost pee myself with delight! I would jump on the mouse and close the trade at once.
It has been very hard for me to watch a trade go 50, 60, 100 pips into green,
and restrain myself from closing it. Don't get me wrong, I still enjoy scalping,
just today I had 14 trades (all winners of course, or I wouldn't be bringing them up). But just this week, I closed 4 trades with 300+ pips each.
I have 2 nice shorts open (already green), that I am going to ride down into hell. I have a separate acct I use for G/J, a mini that was just into 5 digits.
In the past 2 weeks I doubled it.
Now, I know undocumented bragging is frowned upon here, But I hope you folks will bear with me this once. When I try to talk to an Earthling about trading, they look at me like I have 2 heads.
Trading is a lonely business, and you folks are the only trading friends I have.
So without further ado, I got a present for Karmo. A Lamborghini Diablo!
Only problem is, I don't have an exporting license. So I will have to keep it here in safe keeping for Karmo.