September 16, 2025 (1 Trade) (+$62.50)
Overall Grade: B+
Day Summary: I've been waiting for that continuation short day and we got it today in the morning. It was still difficult to execute, but I did end up taking a decent trade. I say decent because the entry was not ideal (not a playbooked set up) but I was still very confident in this trade and that gave me the ability to hold without stress. To be fair, we also were not moving a lot of points so my max stop was quite wide on this trade. I likely wouldn't have held to max stop, and most likely gotten out with a close above yesterday's HOD which still gives me greater than a 1R on this trade. The better entry, and a playbooked set up, did show 3 mins after my entry though and I tried to execute it on the funded account but got no fill. Immediately after that we got a viscious red candle that made me feel a whole lot better on this trade and allowd me to hold my winner for a few extra points.
DAILY - ES
5 MIN - ES
TRADES
Trade 1 - Short 2 MES @ Trend Continuation + Aggressive Entry + Confident Hold
- aggressive entry - no set up - not ideal
- confidence in the PM trend and price action - good
- bid red candle happened in an instant and pushed me well into the green on this trade and gave me confidence to hold for more on this trade
- target was 6668.50 and that did hit after a considerable amount of chop and pops right after my exit so i am happy I got out where i did
- this is by no means my best trade, but trading with the trend/price action can help you in that regard because it is more likely to recover for you
- *note* tapped 15 MIn fair value gap before this sell off (plotted in PM)
- overall was looking to short into baited bulls here and that is essentially what played out - good reading the market sentiment