Discipline Saved Me Today - Avoided Self Sabotage

I was driving this morning to work and checked my palm pilot after the CPI report time release window and saw futures were gapping up bigtime, I said I should buy the futures here, they are going to the moon without me. Im gonna miss the 100 pnt move. Then I remembered that I made a rule that states "Rule #5 Never trade futures from your palm pilot while driving 70 MPH to work" DUH! So that kills that desire to get long from my palm pilot. So I get to work, and I'm saying gotta trade, gotta buy those futures and buy them now like right now, please pull back dont leave without me! Then my computer takes a big uno wut on me and it wont work. It wont let me log onto my brokerage account. Takes me 20 min to get online finally I felt like strangling someone from my broker. Not even sure it was their fault there just good to vent at sometimes. Then the ES futures were at 1334 when I remembered Rule #3, "Never trade until I have drawn my S&R lines on my chart program" and then rule number "#2 Never buy the globex high." While I am drawing my S&R lines the ES I think the BSC news drops and ES spirals down below 1300. So I said I will short my favorite high beta play to get in on the action (skipping my reg routine), I immediately get stopped out. I reload the same short, and get stopped out again in seconds but they were min losses but psychologically they hurt more almost draining to my psychee. I then realized that I was to emotional to trade from all the previous stuff and I just sat on my hands for a while until I got control of my emotions which took about 3 hours. I now realize that this game is about the basics of following your morning routine, obeying your rules, and using unconditional stops. There were several opportunities for me to make a big mistake today, luckily I followed my rules which I think can save you when your not thinking clearly and logically. My rules saved me today from self sabotage so although I did not make money today I proved to myself that my rules work and they should be followed no matter what. Cuz "Anything can happen."

good rule hedge...

I'm glad I'm not the only one. Must be an Oklahoma thing.

i felt like i had 100 nq points in the bag today...i bought in the low 1740's...the CPI comes out as I posted last night would surprise the mkt and in 20 minutes i am up 40 points...then the bsc news hits and my profits go back to zero.... i feel like the grinch took away xmas