Daily Recap - Its been a while since I posted anything on this digital journal. Ive been having an even harder time with this choppy slower market. For a while at the end of 2021 I was almost profitable and now I have stumbled again. Yesterday(Sunday) was a good day, I had a AHA! moment. I realized that almost every single entry or trade that I have taken was just at random points in the charts and so were my risk levels. They weren't based on any single key areas of past days. So there was no real reason for a stock to bottom out on a dip level and push higher. Then on Sunday when I studied the KAVL chart for the past several days, I found out why some dips and hard crashes can be used as risk levels and potential entry points. Why some spikes mean nothing until the chart has proven a certain level. When resistance levels from the past days are broken through and then become clear support levels. Like the stock is not allowed to go below that level any more. Today I used what I learned on KAVL over the weekend to trade it today, and it worked. Easily predictable, with clear levels and an entry. It was the first trade where I was not scared, excited or angry. It took its time and it didn't matter. I saw the setup and as long as my risk was not broken the trade was still working. It was honestly peaceful and my confidence is boosted a bit. I also used what I learned on KSCP for a paper trade after it proved itself and that worked also. I thought to myself "so this is how Monico and Grittani are so calm and collected in their trades". So simple, yet I've made it so hard for myself.

Daily Recap for Jan 3rd and today - Emotional couple of days back to trading. Feel out of the loop. I think I had this false pre conception that the market was going to be red hot starting Jan 1st and that is not the case at all. I need to react to the market as it is and not how I think it should be. Im hesitant to take entries in the proper areas because for my style of trading it is so close to risk levels that it seems more likely to fail than to succeed. I keep wanting the stock to prove itself more but then after it shows strength and that it wants to go back up I get fomo and take I higher entry with wider risk and as soon as it pulls I scare myself out. Whereas if I would take the entry right close to vwap or the lows then I would not be afraid to hold through the next pull as long as it does not break my risk. My goal is to keep myself out of that trap.

Daily recap for yesterday and today - Yesterday I did not trade so well, fomo overtrading and just not seeing the patterns well. Fortunately I was able to end the day down only $30. Today my mindset was in a better place. Made some very good trades and even though I still overtraded and had a lot of fomo today I kept my losses smaller than my wins. Showed signs a few improvements and can clearly see with anyone else influence that the market is heating up this week. Hopefully it continues. Finished today up $155

Daily recap - I really dove in on my past trades on the weekend and it revealed that I am still watching the right stocks and trading them but I have been getting in at the wrong areas making me think that they are not working. However they were working just not how I wanted them to. So today went much better. I traded very scalpy but still managed to make about $300 off of ISIG today. I was in it early in the low 7's and got so scared of it failing and losing profits I kept scalping it all the way up to the 15's. If I would have held at least until after the halts I could have made 500. But im happy with my trading today because for the most part I traded safely. Except for a couple larger losses near the open, from breaking my rules. +$301 on the day

Daily Recap, nov 24 - What an absolute crap day of trading. I broke every rule, bot every high and sold every low, did not wait for tickers to set up, chased and panicked out. I could not have done much worse. 3 days of good trading trumped by 1 bad day. This is what I am trying to avoid and I let myself slip into old habits. Shame on myself

Daily Recap - The last 3 days I traded have been nice little green days. 211, 91 and today was 115. Ive adjusted to the market and began trading a little more scalpy and its paying off. Even while I've been feeling like crap from covid. I was too sick to trade yesterday so I missed the big LGVN squeeze but that's alright. there's a high probability I would have traded it poorly with my fever at its worst. I will look to continue what Im doing well, which is focusing on the biggest % gainers of the day and avoid my mistakes with my main mistake being getting caught chasing instead of waiting for confirmation. I keep finding that even if a stock starts taking off without me, it is much better to wait for a good entry and not chasing which causes me to become emotional. I want to keep this streak rolling.

Daily Recap - Had my best trading day today. I traded very well and did much better at controlling my emotions. I used proper size, had better entries with the right risk levels, only had 4 trades and 3 of them were on LGVN on the leg ups in the a.m. My only loss was $6 and my smallest gain was $30 while my largest gain was $139. Finished the day green $211. I was also disciplined with not chasing fake moves after the big move has happened.

Really wish I could have some one on one time with Sykes, Roland wolf and Matt/Bryce. I feel like it would really help me but I don't know if even that would actually do anything for me

The last few days I've really noticed that I do not do well with stocks that don't move fast or take more time. When I enter I need the stock to move right away otherwise I start to lose conviction and doubt myself and become emotional. I think this is why I am more drawn to listed stocks instead of OTC's and why I am not good at swing trades. Ive never had patience and I still don't. I wish I could relax and trade with zero emotion, like Matt. Just simply looking at a target and a risk level. It seems impossible for me.

Daily Recap - My trading when I am not affected by emotional trading is profitable. Not very much but it is a good start. Today I was profitable and happy with my day until I looked at my days P/L and noticed that I was only up $54 after a couple small losses where I was hoping that a couple of stocks would continue their morning spike. I became extremely disappointed with myself because I thought that number is so small and insignificant. I wanted it to be more. Up until that point I was done for the day so that I wouldn't give back my gains, but after seeing that number I felt like I had to try and get more. I think the root of my trading issues comes from my goals and my aim for my profits from trading. My goals give me a very deep purpose and meaning which creates almost inconceivable motivation and determination but also creates a severe desperation that makes me very hard on myself and a feeling of severe disappointment every time I slip back from my target. A lot of the time I get depressed if I have another red day or another losing trade. I feel like I can not afford to lose, and yet no matter how many rules I make or how I try to trade, another red day is inevitable which brings on depression.