Sorry to hear that, PeterT. I have respect on your analysis and trading. In my experience, I had out of my software platform, a statistic of first week of december to beginning of febuary, every week profitable. I almost doubled my account. When this new wave of huge quantity trading, I neglected to see the differences (with my parameters, what had been a chat of ~3 minutes finished to an average of 25 seconds chart ). Before I discovered this, greed got the best of me, and the rate of the candles would make me always late, and with stops which weren't adjusted to this volatility (especially in cfd's ). I dropped plogical control, fruion kicked, and return to january account values.
Trading might appear easy, but is constant awereness of a single self and constant control.
My advice is to do , what I do if I am in that situation: believe hard in what you need to change and would like to change to keep in the match, and operate on it, regardless of what profit/loss you achieve. Keep practicing it and working on it. Last year I did this, and alot of mistakes I needed. But its difficult to change mentalities, do not think that in 1 transaction or one week that the habits die.
Do a trading plan, not only for your trades, but to the development on your trading, and work on it. I have confidence that in the event you work hard, you can accomplish it !