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TinGull

Practicing Focus....

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Hi there,

 

Wondering how I could practice my focus? I see great things when I look at a chart as it's happening, but for whatever reason I'm not paying attention to a setup as it's happening as best as I'd like. I'm seeming to be looking for one particular setup, and all else is being blocked, while other great setups happen. Just curious what you folks do to practice your focus?

 

THANKS!

 

Yoga and Pranayama (Breathing exercise).

 

Without breathe, you will not alive. Breathe controls us (If you are angry, anxious then respiration increases).

 

How about controlling breathe to control yourself. This is what Pranayama is which helps me a lot.

 

sds.

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I just wanted to add a couple of thoughts. During the trading day, when you get an urge to check a website or some other type of distraction, that is the moment when you should focus more on price action and setups. I found that if I ignore those things that take me away from trading at that moment, a really great setup appears instantly or something important occures.

 

I cannot express enough how important meditation and just being mindful of your breathing during the trading day.

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I just wanted to add a couple of thoughts. During the trading day, when you get an urge to check a website or some other type of distraction, that is the moment when you should focus more on price action and setups. I found that if I ignore those things that take me away from trading at that moment, a really great setup appears instantly or something important occures.

 

I cannot express enough how important meditation and just being mindful of your breathing during the trading day.

 

Hi Snowtruck and welcome to TL. You make a very good observation in your first post here. I have noticed in chatrooms that traders will comment on how boring a market is, how they're going to find something else to do, etc. Soon afterwards the market will move, they miss the setup which was unfolding only to return later to curse the market(s).

 

I can't comment on meditation or breathing techniques as I prefer to take breaks when I feel I need them. I don't worry too much about missing trades as there's always going to be another come along.

 

My focus tends to be on market action rather than myself. I focus on price by considering the market to be a game played between bulls and bears. In my journal I note price levels each side needs to get the upperhand.

My preparation includes compiling support and resistance levels which become a playing field for the game. By continually trying to assess what each side needs to achieve pricewise my focus is to anticipate rather than chase the action.

The nearest price targets for each side change often, adjusting to the game, unless the market becomes choppy or rangebound when I can then simply choose areas where one side will regain the upperhand.

Risk is managed by choosing to side with bulls or bears in only those parts of the playing field where they have space to run with the ball.

Of course I'm also using sentiment, volume and moving averages to assess which side is likely to dominate but for keeping focus I'm running gameplans for each side.

 

Going back to traders being distracted, I find I have the opposite problem - of becoming immersed. I've come to recognise when I'm being drawn in to a small area of the playing field, usually by the reward to risk setups. These are the times when I'm just as vulnerable to those checking other websites, etc.

This is often the best time to zoom out and look at the playing field from afar, daily, hourly charts instead of 15min and so on.

 

An example of my method of focus from my journal today;

closed HALF ES long at 1227.75 for 1.5 , sentiment is getting a little bullish again, bears are becoming more successful at rejecting 1232.

1:17pm - ES 1227.75 , bulls trying to hold here? 1228/1225 are the most obvious areas of support

1:26pm - ES 1223 , bulls unable to hold the important 1225

1:32pm - ES 1225.5 , 1225 , testing 1225 from below could be bearish? (20/15 still rising below price though)

1:34pm - ES 1225.5 , falling 200/15 above at 1234.75, i.e. next resistance for bulls.

1:37pm - ES 1224 , when we take out 1220 on the downside then we increase the odds greatly over a rollover

1:39pm - ES 1224 , bulls holding well even if they are the wrong side of 1225

1:47pm - ES 1225 , if sentiment becomes more bearish again I may start looking for longs against this down move!

2:07pm - ES 1224 , hopefully, this market is going to move one way or another shortly? I think sentiment is too bullish for longs yet. I suspect we need to test 1220 at least.

2:24pm - ES 1225.5 , we've been range bound for a while now, though the range has been wider than depicted in my notes, we keep coming back to this 1225 area. Quite clearly, 1225 has become a line in the sand for many today. Bulls are increasingly trying to use it as support this afternoon.

 

The notes are often contradictory as I add views from different perspectives and some thoughts turn out to be completely wrong but as you can see from the prices, I try to keep myself busy with the game even when the market isn't making any real progress.

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