The news was fairly benign and the market did not launch one way or another to any great degree. I started getting signals and initiated a couple of trades that were stopped out quickly. Between 8:45 and 9:21 I had 5 trades, 4 stop outs and 1 break even.
What to do?
I may have mumbled some bad things, shut down the charts, and then went and bought a coffee.
With some sober second thought made a decision to wait until after the New York lunch hour and then come back to the market and see what happens.
So the first chart below shows the action around the first 5 trades and the second chart shows the action around the next 7.
Needless to say the trading went a lot better in the my "after coffee" trading session.
While I did turn a losing day into a winner I could have also just added to the losses. The key was to STOP for a while, clear my head, and come back to the market without the revenge trading attitude.
Trading is hard.
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After coffee trading
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