@Arbu
I find it very useful to drag myself through the mire of wishful thinking and illogic which festoons my own mistakes. Sometimes things go wrong when all the thinking is sound, which is OK.
SOmetimes, it just doesn't look right, in hindsight. You hear Cherif and Neal say it a lot - "I don't see an entry". They will both even let a stock charge up for 10 minutes and not enter. They've learned not to. They both say it's not their style. In other words it doesn't fit one of their rules for entry. Traders always say you need a set of rules, to give you the mysterious "edge". It helps with removing the emotion, making the business more mechanical.
There's a youtuber "The moving average" who sets out some rules, several sets in fact, which do work. If you stick to them, more than half the trades will work.
Cherif has a less developed intuition, so he has the moving averages on his screen.
(I don't havea well developed intuition either, but I'm lazy...)
I hope you don't mind - this is the first of your trades, on Tesla. I looked at where you must have entered, somewhere in the green rectangle on the green dotty line. Obviously it's clear in hindsight. All that was, was a little bump. It wasn't an entry. I wouldn't have entered there but I couldn't have told you why - it just doesn't look right.
If you'd used a couple of moving averages, you wouldn't have entered.
Here's Cherif's EMAs in the colours he uses, red 50, yellow 20, white 10. ( He also uses the 200 SMA and AVWAP).
The youtuber's rules say you only enter when the price rises through the 10EMA, the faster 10MA cross the lesser fast one or two, rising, for a LONG. He used different periods, it doesn't matter much. Importantly, not when you're in a period of consolidation or narrow ranging.
So that's when the price is rising, White crosses Yellow from below, and hopefully Red at least nearly
Cherif's lines confirm - no entry there.
Sure, the optimum entry would have been where the oval is, but if you'd waited until 15:07 where the white lines comes up through BOTH the others.
The exit is less clear. I think I take in how bobbly the price is. There was a dip at 15:23 but I'd have stayed in, because where the blue line is, (mauve dash), marks a recent high. The price had already blown through that. I probably would have (mistakenly ) come out and gone back in at around 15:46. Later, the price slope is a lot flatter so you'd be less optimistic on the next dip.
Those little peaks in the first dip are showing an uptrend, but at about 16:34 the price falls through everything.
To rub it in (soz!) instead of a £250 loss in those first three trades, you would at $1 a point had a $4.95 trade up to 16:25 or so.
I get it, it's easy to call nearly all of the indicators "lagging", but they usually work.
Oh you mentioned Level 2 (orders ladder) - I don't have it, yet. It can be useful when the price is approaching something llike a round hundred level, to see orders waiting at 199 or 201. I tend to get out early anyway.
Not trading today, I said I'd help a kid with A level maths. Differential and integral equations. Hows your damped harmonic motion? Already regretting it.
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