November 10, 2025 (3 Trades) (-63.75)
Overall Grade: C-
Day Summary: I missed a long out of the open today and although I didn't feel like I had FOMO at the time, I do think it ended up influencing my mindset for the day which ultimately led into me making the poor decision of forcing trades late in the session and giving myself an unnecessary red day. To be honest though, it's not like the long I missed was my set up, just me making a correct guess based on price action, so I should not have let that get to me. In terms of my trades, my first one of the day was uncomfortable but still my set up, and I ended up scaling out of a loser, something I've been considering trying, when I thought I might be wrong (as I was in drawdown for most of that trade) so I was happy overall with that trade. I then waited for another 60+ minutes just to take two unnecessary trades at 11:15am. It technically could have been my set up but I knew I was trading it late based on the down move we had just had, but also I FOMO'd my entries and just gave myself a poor R in a subpar set up. I managed the losses but they were back to back (revemnge trading), FOMO entires, and subpar set ups so really I am just disappointed in myself for taking those trades, even though they weren't horrible trades.
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TRADES
Trade 1 - Long 2 MES @ 21 EMA Trap + Trend Continuation
Grade; B-
- playbooked set up - good
- immediate drawdown was uncomfrotable on this trade and I had to remind myself that this is my set up and I had to be willing to accept this loss
- pullback low came within ticks of my stop
- scaled out of a loser after giving it a chance to turn into a winning trade - new technique but good to impliment it
- trading in the direction of the trend (15 MIN) + Gap Up
- premarket was very rangy so I could somewhat expect that this wasn't going to be a 21 EMA Trap rip through highs type of trade - Know The Day
Trade 2 - Short 2 MES @ FOMO Entry + No Set Up + Guessing/Gambling
Grade: D+
- Thinking about the money - guessing gambling, biased hoping for aggressive selling to continue on a fake pop - BAD!
- no set up - bad
- FOMO entry bad
- this trade is nothing but giving up easy money to the market for no reason other than lack of emotional control
- I knew I was in trouble on this trade when it made the first HL after my entry
- I knew I was late to the game on this move but just had to try it anyways and hope to get lucky
- I should had shut down the charts by this point in the day and I did know that and tell myself to do that but I stuck around and look what happened. The usual...
Trade 3 - Short 2 MES @ No Set Up + FOMO + Revenge Trading
Grade: D
- you can immediately see this was revenge trading as it was taken just two minutes after taking the loss on Trade 2 - bad
- no set up - bad
- kept the stop tight at least but I got stopped right at the high to a tick lol
- unnecessary give away to the market - every dollar counts - no easy buckets!!
- I'm glad I shut it down and walked away after this trade but to be totally honest I should not have even allowed it to get to this point. I know when it is time to call it, and I recognized that today and continued to try to make opportunities in the market. I would have been so much better just stopping after Trade 1, locking in small green and protecting my account for another day where I will undoubtedly see a set up I know I can capitialize on