September 15, 2025 (1 Trade) (-$52.50)
Overall Grade: B-
Day Summary: I will say that I came into the market today with a totally submissive, relaxed mindset with out any expectations whatsoever. That is how I should be approaching the market everyday, so that is a good takeaway for today. I did miss a good long set up early on which I will show below, but I am still content with the one trade I took today, even though it was a loser. I also didn't fall into FOMO after missing the long opportunity and waited for an actual set up. Today really wasn't a good day to be holding for downside continuation based on the current trend at the time, the fact that we had a no news monday and with the FOMC interest rate decision coming this wednesday, I need to remember to try to recognize the type of day/market we are having and make decisions accordingly.
DAILY - ES
5 MIN - ES
TRADES
Trade 1 - Short 2 MES @ 21 EMA Trap + Bias + Fighting The Trend + Held Past Stop
Grade: B-
- this was a playboked set up - good - both nothing additional such as a key level
- following current price action - good
- trading against overall trend (4am onward) - bad
- happy with that entry
- held past planned stop - planned was close above 6618.00 - espcially after noticing HL's at 10:25am -10:30am - biggest issue with this trade today
*Missed opportunity today (see below) due, mostly, to not wanting to buy the top while ADD was tanking, however, this was a good 21 EMA Trapset up:
- recent HH
- quick dip to 21 EMA - no HLs
- overall uptrend (5min & 15MIN)
- overall bull market
- took stops of 9:30am open candle
- NQ was just htting 21ema
- just was tough to take this because it did feel like stabbing at a falling knife
- also ADD opened green and immediately sold off until this point and this was 15mins into the day which led to hesitation
