Hello all, Can I place trades basically anytime the market is open? I remember seeing something about closing out trades at a certain time, but then I thought I saw something about them loosening up the rules. I'll go back and search but if someone has a quick answer that would be appreciated. Thank you

Hey invest Fam! I posted a bit ago in celebrations when I passed my first 50k EA. Well… I passed another the next day, ripped some success, and then watched my wings melt as I did my best Icarus straight to crashing both… Well after a few weeks of scrutinizing review and practice, I was ready to go for the next round on Thursday with completely re-formed strategy that ended 3 accounts today where you see them in the screenshot. I’ve got so much more to learn, but here’s a couple things that I hope can turn my mistakes into your lessons. 1. Be careful of high profit targets on a $2,500 drawdown. If you’re above 3:1 in an EA, trail it before it accidentally eats 30% or more of your drawdown in one trade -no, I am not saying big ratios are bad! Increasing your reward is one of the best things and one of my biggest improvements. However, if you’re in an EA, the drawdown does not grow. Let’s say you’re risking $200 and shooting for a 5:1 ($1000 profit). Your trade pushes to 4.5 before reversing and slamming your stop. Well that 2500 drawdown was increasing with that trade. So will be down your $200 loss plus the $900 profit you had at one point. From $2500 to $1400 drawdown in one trade (plus commission if the 1400 wasn’t bad enough : P). Pretty brutal huh? On this run my average risk ratio was 6:1, but if I was above 50% of my profit target, I put in a trail-stop or trailed manually to protect my drawdown. This was pretty crucial for me. 2. Trust yourself!!! -Yes, self confidence is important, but there’s a lot of need beyond that. I have watched myself lose as much if not more from over-caution and self doubt than I have from being too aggressive. Closing trades that would have hit profit no problem, being too scared to place the better trade, then following it up with a bad setup because of fomo. It’s a messy cycle. Yes, I messed up from over aggressive trading, but that was actually a poor response from the backlash I was feeling from letting fear change my decision making process.

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Ok so here is one I haven't seen asked so I thought I would give it a go 😁 So once I am absolutely certain that I run the evals through ESZ24 "Which Im not perfectly certain of yet...lol. I am going to do a one trade and done for the passing of the eval. When Kyle brought it up, I thought it to be a no brainer. I am taking 2 hour lunches this week in order to try to get those done but... We have to have 7 trade days on the board which is no issue because I will simply set my TP to get 3150 just in case when I enter and exit a trade in the other 6 days...I don't hit a down tick. So here's the question 😀 I didnt get the 2 hour lunch today to do this plan but need the other 6 days regarless, so should I do one of my in and out trades today to have one day on the board even if the trade is at .00, it is still a trade for the day and moves me ahead one day. Thought?

I set this trade this morning (west coast) on GC and my trade entered at the red arrow. Yet never hit my TP, even when it should have at the red circle. Is this just a bug or has anyone else experienced this when trading on a paper account?