October 6, 2025 (3 Trades) (+$5.00)
Overall Grade: B
Day Summary: Today is my first review in a while. So what's gone on since !? Well, I had a black day on my 31st birthday last week. Nice! Lol. Complete tilt. I then just flopped around for the rest of the week. I then realized on Friday that TradeStation increased my commissions by 100%, only from $0.25 to $0.50 but that adds up over the course of a month or year. So I guess that is just more incentive to only trade my set up.
So about today, well I should have just kept it as a one and done and I would of had a $50 green day (average green day) by 10am. Remember that taking more trades is exposing yourself to more risk. Sometimes it's just so easy to forget that and to think about getting a bigger day if your 2nd trade is also green. That being said, I did take my set up on the first two trades today so I am happy with both of those, and although my third trade was not spcifically one of my set ups (until I added the second contract), it was an okay trade and I managed the risk properly with the help of the DOM. All and all, scratch day mostly following my set ups, and my one winner ate up the two losers, so I can't be too upset with that.
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TRADES
Trade 1 - Short 2 MES @ 21 EMA Trap + Early/FOMO Entry + Trend Continuation
Grade: B+
- playbooked set up - good
- entry was a bit early out of FOMO but the fakeout candle right before gave me intuition I was on the right side
- immediately uncomfortable on the drawdown of this trade because of the early entry but my planned stop was a close above 6782.75 so I stuck to that
- took off the partial in a good spot (retest of lows and London Low)
- tough to hold the second contract through the pullback but stuck to plan and got a couplemore points out of the second (although it wasn't worth the risk of what I could have gave up)
- all and all this was a solid scalp
Trade 2 - Short 2 MES @ 21 EMA Trap + Key Level + Intuition + Trend Continuation
Grade: B+
- playbooked set up - good
- entry - good
- coming off of a LL with a pop straight back up to potentially trap buyers at a key level, makes me quite happy with this trade actually
- kept the loss small which is good, but I did hold past my planned mental stop above 6775.00, but that essentially means I was looking for a zero drawdown trade so I did give it some chances to work but ultimately I noticed us creating HLs and knew it was time to get out before I let it get worse
- All and all, the R is there on this trade - target 6768.00
- one thing to note is that we did sweep the London Lows before this
- looking back, this is actually a better trade than I remember and that explains why I felt so comfortable in this trade
Trade 3 - Short 2 MES @ Intuition + FOMO ... Then @ Range Fakeout on 2nd contract
Grade: B-
- initial trade was based on intuition and trying to create my 21 ema set up in chop - bad
- I need to remember that strategy is for trend continuation and I need to quickly recognize when we are choppy and trade the range instead
- 2nd contract was a good Range fakeout set up + Order Flow to help nail the entry
- I thought I had it right after the second contract and immediate breakdown, so I thought this could turn into a big winner which is why I didn't close the first contract at BE when we tested that level twice after
- on this trade, I did do a good job of spotting that we were making HLs and seeing liquidity above on the DOM which helped me realize I was on the wrong side of this one and allowed me to get out early before the breakout, even though I did hold through one spike but I had noticed it as well before that, so that is a takeaway from today to trust order flow and PA and to get out before the inevitable happens