December 1, 2025 (6 Trades) (-$20.00)
Day Summary:
DAILY - ES
5 MIN - ES
TRADES
Trade 1 - Long 2 MES @ 21 EMA Trap +Key Level + Order flow
Grade: B
- looking back at this I am actually happy with this trade
- play booked set up - good
- took this trade off of a strong bullish move (15 MIn - could have easily tested range highs) - good
- stuck to planned stoploss - good
- gave it a chance to move higher - order flow looking decent - good hold
- BE stop was smart in this play but i thought I got tagged out right before the breakout
Trade 2 - Long 2 MES @ Range + Trusting the Chart
Grade: B-
- not a playbooked set up - not ideal
- still, entry was at a decent spot based on trusting the chart
- good hold but I was thinking to myself that this trade wasn't workiing quickly and I should just get out - good recognition even though I failed to execute that based on greed and thinking about the money
- good job stopping out - this was a manual stop out just before the preset OCO but I knew the thesis was wrong
And here's where I went on TILT
Trades 3 & 4
Trades 5 & 6
Now even though I shouldn't have taken this many trades and i put on risk, I do want to recognize the fact that i flipped my bias to trade with the price action and that is huge. I was upset with the amount of trades I took today, but that flip alone allowed me to take two decent short trades (Trades 4 & 5 not 6). I did stop them out breakeven out of fear which is it's own problem, but the potential was there to make some money because I recognized I was wrong on the long trade and started trading the price action. I was managing my trades at this point out of fear, probably because I've been red a lot recently, but that means nothing. I did feel like I was on the right side of those short trades (PA + order flow) I should have been willing to put on a little bit of risk.
I also want to note that Trade 4 & 5 were better, safer opportunities to get short than Trade 6