Entry comments: 2nd Trade on Phase 1 challenge 10K Account

Trading YM Mini Futures September 2025 contracts $5.00 a tick. Entered a short at 45085 and took profit at 45069 (16 ticks) profit $80.00 less $5.00 commission leaving a win of $75.00

Broker crashed, upon reboot moved from 1.15 to 1.02. Used MKT order to get out of trade. Sold on bounce at 1.06. Glad I was in small.

Small position. I let drop down to set stop. Supper choppy, I gave up multiple opportunities to get out with a smaller loss. I should have adjusted my stop loss. I was in higher that I realized, and didn't adjust my stop loss based on late buy in.

Pre-Market: Hit my stop then ran. At least it sold above my stop.

Pre-Market Bought this off first green (5min) candle breaking EMA9. Filled in the next candle (Red) continued to dip so I cut my losses.

Placed this order during PreMarket. Just outside the five minute window, but it errored due to being too close to market open. I canceled the order and moved on. At market open it filled the order anyway. Before I could enter a stop loss it tanked $0.24 per share. I set a stop loss at -$30 and let it go for an hour. I closed it out as my trading day was over.

BOUNCE

Set a trailing stop loss at 20%. It had already run to $3.45 (10%). I thought it had more potential. I wanted to try a trailing stop loss unsupervised. It was sideways the rest of the day until 11:45 when it hit the stop loss. My (bad) math had my max loss around $150. The Trailing stop worked perfect, but I will keep it tighter if I use it again.

Too choppy got out with small gain