What a fucking disaster.

AM: -6R

PM: +4200

Don’t even know where to start in terms of mistakes as there have been so many.

• Taking tons of random trades due to volatility
• Not taking profits
• Continuously going for home run trades
• Over trading
• Impatience on entries
• Not taking the trades that fit your strategy
• Mismanaging daily P/L
• Mismanaging weekly and monthly P/L
• Not realizing that you need a confidence booster, take a day off from AM trading and get a high probability green day

Will review when I’m not so tilted and come up with a plan to get back to basics for next month, back to consistency to get myself out of this hole one good trade at a time.

Worst month ever came to a close in expected fashion.

I didn’t keep my promise of only trading PM and did some AM

Went into a hole overnight only to luckily bail myself out.

Up good. Then took a disastrous loss right at 4pm.

AM: 0

PM: -3000

This feels terrible. Will only trade the afternoon tomorrow then reassess over the weekend.

AM: -3.1R

PM: +400

Another day, another daily stop loss hit.

Tilt meter is currently at 10.

Last 2 trades were right, got stopped at absolutely top and bottom then proceeded directly to my targets within 5 minutes.

AM: -4.5R

pm: -620

Took a bunch of trades in the Globex session and ruined my following day because of it.

Too many trades to go through. Consistently wrong in ES and CL so I need to stop trading those. More than enough good opportunities in other products that work with my strategy.

Need to make sure tomorrow is a day where I follow my strategy perfectly. I can’t let this downswing spiral out of control.

Last 15 minutes of the day presented 6R in opportunities in SI which I couldn’t capitalize on due to sub par losses during the day that had me close to my daily stop. This opportunity cost is insane and I can’t afford to let that happen

AM: -3.1R

PM: -170

Way too many trades to go over individually. I wasn’t well prepared, didn’t execute properly and overall over traded on a volatile day where there were tons of A+ opportunities. Really unhappy with myself.

Need to work on simply putting your entry, stop and target then walking away from trade. My tampering has led to most of my screwups.

I’m not letting my winners run, nor am I cutting my losses quickly. By making this change, I’ll be much more profitable.

As well, I’m not putting each individual trade into the context of what I want to accomplish that week or month in terms of P/L. I’m always trying to hit the home run instead of taking the singles and doubles which led to my success.

AM: -2.5R

PM: +750

-1.1R in SI. Undefined. Took the trade immediately when I got to my desk instead of being patient.

+.9R in GC. SFP. Took partial profits at 1.5R and moved stop lower. If I keep initial stop, 3R

-.7R in ES. Undefined. Need to wait for this SFP and its a 2R winner

+.6 in SI. SFP. Had 1.5R. Need to start taking those profits.

+2R in ES. Stop reversal. Overextended to downside. Continuously enter/exit with partials.

Overall, good ideas but poor execution on profit taking this week. Need to be way more diligent about taking profit and moving to next trade instead of swinging for a home run each time. The singles and doubles add up much quicker and more consistently. Good job keeping losses within acceptable limits as I’m trying to put on bigger size slowly.

AM: +1.7R

PM: -700

-1R in GC. Inverse. Not a very strong inverse when metals have been very strong.

+.9R in ES. Undefined. Clear PA wasn’t getting above my entry price.

+.4R in SI. Inverse. Biggest mistake of day. Had 3R plan and messed it up completely. Need to stop being greedy and take profit. Stop was at 1R but crazy market buy gave me 6 ticks of slippage.

-1R in ES. Undefined. Market was tanking very quickly and I liked my idea of averaging in. Cut right through my price and hit my stop. Happy with risk management.

+1.3R in ES. Stop reversal. ES dropped 40pts in less than an hour. Because of previous ES loser, wasn’t sized in properly.

+2.1R in GC. Undefined. Topping out in both metals + ES was bouncing. Should be 3R but I got greedy again.

Lots of trades but today was very volatile and presented real opportunities compared to other days where I’ve over traded. This is one of those days where I’m a bit upset while I had an above average day P/L wise as I feel I didn’t execute up to my potential.

AM: +2.7R

PM: +400

-1R in CL. Stop reversal. Overnight hold, no real movement after the stop. Should get out flat

+1.1R in SI. Inverse. Good

-1R in HG. SFP. Didn’t SFP

+1.1R in HG. SFP. Perfect SFP but I didn’t do full size. Went way further then I thought.

-1.7R CL. SFP. Good SFP but wouldn’t break down. Kept on adding to position as it went against me

+.6R CL. Stop reversal

+1R SI. Inverse

AM: -.1R

PM: +500

Took a few trades in the Feb 17 AH session

+1R in SI. Inverse. 3R hit

+.5R in GC. Gap play on the open

-.9R in HG. Mistake trade. Entered because it was moving. Knew I was wrong immediately but didn’t exit

+1.1R in CL. Inverse. Perfect exit

-1.2R in SI. Bad trade. Inverse had already happened hours ago and would’ve worked but because I was sleeping, I took this undefined trade instead

-1.5R in GC. Inverse. Good trade idea, bad risk management

+.2R in SI. Inverse. Had 1R but wanted more. It wasn’t moving so I should’ve gotten out

-.9R in HG. Inverse. Only on 15min, not a major level, not a good trade

Overall, way too many trades. Possibly due to the fact I increased my stop to allow for a max of -3R per day, from -2R. Will monitor that closely.

AM: -1.7R

PM: +1400