October 13, 2025 (4 Trades) (+$80.00)
Overall Grade: B-
Day Summary: I traded from Adriana's this morning, so I was a bit out of my normal routine but I still managed to get from red to green today. I had decent ideas but poor execution with a bit of FOMO. Definitely wasn't in that clear flow state where I'm submissive to the market. Also, with today supposed to be "Black Monday" I expected volatility, and definitely had the idea of making some money today. Considering I wasn't focused on the process, I am happy that I was at least able to get a decent green day, but I can't count on performing like this and getting away with it, especially with big volatility.
DAILY - ES
5 MIN - ES
TRADES
Trade 1 - Short 2 MES @ Range Fakeout + Fighting Price Action
Grade: B-
- technically a playbooked set up but subpar - fighting price action
- thought we might sweep Asia Highs and reverse
- looking at the 7am wick makes this tough
- 5 Min chart was showing HLs and strong bullish action
- good entry for a range fakeout trade
- have to hold this loss really. Sure, it's subpar, but at least it was a playbooked set up
Trade 2 - Short 2 MES @ FOMO + No Set Up + Revenge Trading
Grade: D
- this trade here was super risky
- could have easily popped and put me 0-2 on the day when I was already down $80 from Trade 1
- fighting the trend - bad
- no set up - bad
- felt super uncomfortable in this trade, and still added into it out of FOMO
- got very lucky to get out breakeven
- AVOID
Trade 3 - Short 1 MES @ Momentum + Intuition + Aggressive Entry
Grade: B
- short biased but I finally felt like my range fakeout (Trade 1) was playing out so i got aggressive with it
- good to take this with only 1 contract for the above reason
- this is not a playbooked set up - so not ideal, makes it tougher to be repeatable
- actually held to TP on this trade - good management at least
- planned a stop above my entry candle - hopefully I would have stuck to that but can't be sure with where my head was at after Trades 1 & 2
Trade 4 - Short 2 MES @ 21 EMA Trap + Gap Fill + Intuition + Bias
Grade: B+
- for whatever reason, I decided to get biased that we would short to the daily gap fill (weekly open price)
- did take a playbooked set up (21 ema trap) with volume nodes on the DOM to pick the level
- 1 contract thankfully helped me control my emotions because price action immediately was going against me setting HH's and HL's
- just as I thought it was going to breakout and stop me out (wide stop bc of volatility - above Trade 2 exit high) we got the red candle that took me back to green on the trade
- from there i thought i was right and added a second contract a couple mins later
- at this point, I felt better than I had at any point in the day about my positioning so I was pretty comfortable holding initially but I then had to scale out bc it didn't want to go and I was finally at decent green for the day
- second contract was a good hold and I ended up taking it off at the right spot into Range (5 MIN) and Asia lows
