the irritating thing for me, is that I don't pay enough attention to all of my notes that I have scribbled everywhere. Lucky for me today wasn't one of those days that I only looked at todays menu items. I was baffled with one of the items for today, "probable reversal day for cattle" and below that was ? maybe hogs also. No explanation for why but yesterday I was getting this urge to buy hogs but the June chart was not very conclusive for a strong burst of UP. For some reason, my notes from last Friday caught my eye, "next week start using the July contract". I had completely over focused on June and overlooked the usual of going out to the next month. I hadn't even looked at a July chart but at first glance I spotted a $1 fish pond wide open if there were any hungry fish, the dinner bell was ready to ring.

just barely got my north lines set @ 80.07 for the open. Deposits made rather quickly @ 80.50 and 80.95. I liked the chart structure and the potential reversal day made it easy for me to grab another long @ 80.50 with damage control now @ 80.25. I plan on taking it into tomorrow but it's about that time that the Prime Directive starts insulting my intelligence for not keeping what I have. If I can hold out into the final minute and have a look that the buy signal trigger @ 80.95 will be triggered-----I'll take my chances with tomorrows open. The sad part is, the Prime Directive usually wins the argument and is usually correct. I don't know why I bother with the argument. Must be a small addiction for a little bit of anxiety.