Today was a day that I started off at the first valid reference, but was stopped out, the second was a valid reference, but early, the third time around the same entry was the trade that payed. By the time the third trade came I was feeling a little fearful, but did not let that prevent me from taking the trade. I think that comes from a high degree of confidence regarding my structural analysis. I believe in my own abilitys. The interesting thing is this is what gets me in trouble when I am wrong, as I gave back 26 points during a chop near the VWAP with in a balanced market. Now there is a fine line here to walk between truncating a strengh, and refining a weakness. This is why the simulated process is so important. To test these things out. A strength of mine is lack of fear in trading, a weakness is lack of patientance. Regarding my error yesterday in the VWAP area, I believe I was subject to an ancoring bias, in that I had my T4 target of a few trades at the 1247 area. An area that almost got hit, but not quite. There were many signs that was a low probability, a low confidence day, a weak test of the "A" period high, chop around the VWAP, etc, yet I was married to the idea.Going foward, as much as I like my "T" levels for offsetting positions incrementaly, I am going to use that concept for stop placement only, and revert back to my style of a few years ago where I have maximum flexibility. I had a dream last night that my right hemisphere of my brain was a trapped animal (a bear), in a cage screaming at the key keeper which was in the cage next to me, that was metaphorically the left hemisphere of my brain (the analytical side). So, when I take all positions, I will still veiw T3 as 10 points, and at that point will trail the stop on T3 and T4 based on structural tenents. Lets see how this goes. That way I can possibly maximize the trade to a higher degree. Having said this, the exercise of offsetting the different T levels has many positive attributes also, I will discuss the pros and cons some other time.