January 29, 2026 (2 Trades) (+$53.75)
Overall Grade: C+
Day Summary: I felt like I was approaching the day with a good mindset today, but after the first few minutes of price action and me missing a good down move, I became immediately frustrated. I did not handle the frustration well either and forced a couple trades (combine, funded and personal live), but thankfully they were all shorts and the heavy selling pressure saved me. That just goes to show you how important it is to trade in the direction of the trend. Not that we want to rely on it, but it is more likely that you get lucky if you have the trend on your side. Unfortunately, had I held my winning trade today, I could have made ~$140, and had I entered where I should have according to my set up, I potentially could have made even more. But I was not on my game today and going into drawdown on my first trade affected my mental due to how quick we were moving. That caused me to close my winner early when I already had my STOP at BE. Just not really a good day for me today even though I managed to escape with a decent green. The opportunity was there though and I fumbled the bag.
DAILY - ES
5 MIN - ES
TRADES
Trade 1 - Short 2 MES @ Trend Continuation + FOMO + Risky
Grade: C
- playbook set up - NO, simply based on trend momentum + intuition - bad
- FOMO
- poor entry, had I waited for a target line I would have had a way more comfortable and profitable trade
- the trend saved me on this trade
- oversized for how much we were moving, especially when I'm supposed to be in trader rehab still
Trade 2 - Short 1 MES @ 21 EMA Trap + Key Level
Grade: B
- playbook set up - yes
- good entry (21 ema + key level)
- trading in direction of trend - yes
- all around good but I did not feel comfortable in this trade an exited BE
- this ended up selling off a lot more (like 20 pts) so I missed a good move just for not being confident in my trade, especially considering that this was a better trade than Trade 1