December 8, 2025 (1 Trade) (+$62.50)
Overall Grade: A
Day Summary: I got back to a much needed one and done day today. I waited for my set up to show, executed on it and was done in under 2 mins. That is the ideal trading day for me and something I want to get back to after the crazy amount of overtrading I was doing in November. There's not much to critique today because I had an A day, but the two things I want to point out are that I still took off my winner a couple points before my preset TP out of emotion, which is not a good reason to close as it hit TP on the next candle, but I can understand why I exited due to how I've been trading recently. But I need to remember that those couple extra points make a difference over time and the market is going to do what it is going to do regardless of my position.
The second point, is that when looking back at the charts, Nas offered the same trade but even more comfortable due to the price action. I'll show a screenshot below to make it easier to see, but the S&P had set a 1min HL before I entered my trade, whereas Nas was still printing candles that never set a HL, which ultimately is the A+ set up I look for. It was still a great trade on both charts, and i don't have my charts set up and ready to trade Nas but that was the easier of the two set ups today.
DAILY - ES
5 MIN - ES
TRADES
Trade 1 - Short 2 MES @ 21 EMA Trap + Order Flow
Grade: A
- I was a bit cautious of taking this trade at first because of the 1 Min HL we set just prior to my entry (again see Nas photo below to compare the difference) but watching the Tape helped me enter this trade at a good spot with minimal risk which helped me overcome the hesitation to trade this
- On the last few seconds of the candle prior to my entry and the first few seconds of my entry candle, the tape was printing green like crazy and we weren't moving higher. At that point I was a lot more convinced in the short opportunity and executed my system
- nailed the entry - good
- playbooked set up - good
- set up + order flow confirmation - good
- trading in the direction of price action on the day - good
- the only thing about this trade is that I closed slightly early out of emotion, even though everything was playing out the way I wanted it to. Origional target was 6871.25 which hit on the next candle. Remember that the market will do what it's going to do regardess of my position
- Based on my intuition alone, I did close in a spot where it could have potentially faked out shorts and bounced but that was not being shown in the price action, only in my imagination so going forward I want to try to work on that
NAS Opportunity we spoke about above:
- entry would have gone at the oval
- same trade - 21 EMA Trap - but no 1 MIN HL printed before the Nas 21 EMA test so ultimately, this would have been the more comfortable trade, and it also made the bigger flush, which I don't think is a coincidence