When I shared a video of my 300 page first draft, one of your noted how much editing that must entail. Truer words were never spoken!

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When I shared a video of my 300 page first draft, one of your noted how much editing that must entail. Truer words were never spoken!
I have been, as perhaps some of you, torturing myself over what I could have done differently on June 16th. That was, of course, the market’s bottom so far, and a perfect time to get rid of EVERY short and go ENTIRELY long.
As it stands now, the Fibonacci retracements are totally clear, and I look and think to myself, “What kind of moron would have held on when the Fib was getting hit like that?” And then I wonder to myself, was I even WATCHING these same retracement levels? Maybe I’m being too hard on myself.
Turns out………...nope, I’m not being hard ENOUGH on myself. I had identified these exact levels long before the bottom, and I went and reviewed my posts from June 13-17, right when the market was bottoming, and I knew EXACTLY WHAT WAS GOING ON, and I said EXACTLY WHAT I SHOULD DO.
Did I do it? No. Why? Because I’m a goddamn idiot, in spite of being a brilliant chartist. Ugh!
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