there is wisdom in your thoughts Dewey. It took me forever to realize that the surprises were a constant in the markets and ending the day flat prevented many trips to the woodshed because of those surprises. Fully realizing those two elements, was my first step to the process of developing my fishing strategies.

I burned a lot of midnight oil trying to figure out how to take advantage of those surprises without shooting myself in the foot. My break through for the foundation for fishing came about by accident when I had several times in a couple days that I forgot to cancel stop orders, I was using for damage control on positions I had liquidated. Those stop orders that should not have been there turned into very profitable mistakes. A light went on and further research showed me I had been making trading harder than it needed to be for too many years. Anxiety is always there with each trade because I know I might be proven wrong but I don't have to deal with the pain as long or as often, that I used to have to deal with it. The pain is generally just minor scrapes that go with the territory of playing the GAME as long as I follow the Prime Directive.