March 25, 2026 (-$22.50) | Overconfident

March 25, 2026 (4 Trades) (-$22.50)

Overall Grade: D

Day Summary: So today was an interesting day. I took a 2 MES long on the funded on the 9:37 wick (grey oval on Trade 3 & 4 photo), which was a great entry for the current price action (8:30am on), but now looking at the 5 Min - ES chart (see below), I can see that we had actually been ranging all night, so holding long into the highs wasn't a great idea. However, I was very confident in this trade, and although it was tough to hold through, the recovery of the 9:41am candle made me overconfident; to the point where I just said fuck the set up and an entry and marketed in 1 MES on my live. That turned out to be a bad decision and is just a reminder that I need to remember that every trade can always be wrong, even if I feel as though I'm right. I, thankfully, stopped out quickly of that trade but that gut punch (especially going from +$110 on the funded looking for a winning day, to taking a loser just a couple minutes later) set me off and caused me to revenge trade for the rest of the morning. I was lucky to have minimized the damage on my last trade of the day but it was unnecessary risk and I was fighting the trend. Lucky is what it was. Just goes to show how quickly your emotions can change in this game and why it is so important to follow your rules to prevent you from blowing up on a day like today.

DAILY - ES

5 MIN - ES

TRADES

Trade 1 - Long 1 MES @ FOMO + Overconfident + Bias + No Setup

Grade: D

1. no set up - bad
2. overconfidence led to a FOMO entry
3. trading in the direction of current price action which is good at least, but failed to see we had been ranging all night
4. stopped out pretty quickly on this trade which is good at least, although my planned stop was a break below 6675.75 so actually it was not good
5. this should have been a breakout or bailout trade and I knew that going in but did not stick to the plan

Trade 2 - Long 1 MES @ Revenge Trading + Fighting Price Action + No Setup

Grade: D-

1. fighting price action - bad
2. revenge trading - emotional from Trade 1 - bad
3. no set up - bad
4. cut my loss quickly on this trade because I knew I was forcing it - only good takeaway

Trade 3 - Long 1 MES @ Revenge Trading + Fighting The Trend + No Setup

Grade: D

1. risky
2. broke 2 loss and done rule - bad habit - not good
3. fighting the trend - bad
4. no set up - bad
5. lucky this didn't dump straight through
6. breakeven stop was smart at least because I knew I was forcing it

Trade 4 - Long 1 MES @ Tilt + Revenge Trading + No Setup + Fighting The Trend

Grade: D

1. again, risky and got lucky
2. this could have flushed right through and stopped me out quick
3. fighting the trend - bad
4. no set up - bad
5. revenge trading/tilt - bad
6. took profits and ran after the pullback - good idea
7. shut it down after minimizing the damage before making it worse - best takeaway of this trade haha