Hey guys so I got to a point that I’m desperate. I’ve been trading for 2.5 years now (not successful). I’ve been many times green for long periods of time (mostly demo up to 8 weeks with 0 red days). I also won 2 nationwide competitions with over 4000 participants. (Over a year ago)
Other than the competition money and some swings (I do pretty good swing trading but I don’t do it too often) I never ever made enough money to say ok, I’m going somewhere.
My trading setup is wyckoff as the big picture and then I try to use the Dom(not great ) for entries. I trade MES with a 3 pts SL.
The biggest problem is that I have full time job 1 hour after market open so I’m super limited to intraday trade.
Because of my work I went crazy and gambling up to 100 trades (trading really small) and of course it doesn’t work, so I lost a lot of money this way between fees and bad gambling habits.
At one point I told my very understanding wife to sit next to me in the first hour of the day so I can eliminate gambling. First day I did 5 trades. (Not good) Then after that I decided to just sit on my hands and comment the market (I also want to teach my wife little by little).
I called every single move using wyckoff. Every single swing/bar almost exactly to what’s going to happen. So I’m realizing that I do good and I like wyckoff but the problem is that I was not able to enter any trades the whole time. Probably due to fear and also just the way the market worked today as I didn’t see a good entry for me.
The question starts here. How the heck I can trade and build my account being only able to trade the first hour before I run to work?
I trade the 5 min+ 1 min for entries. Anyone knows how to in between of the 100 trades and 0 trades? I just don’t see a picture.
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