Being defensive & lowered size, I recently found that even if it goes my way doing this brings negative value to my expectancy so tis a habit I must break or build rules to prevent from sizing down unless necessary. The rest of the trade was handled well. Found myself close to my goal after some grinding, moved stop loss up to lock in no matter the outcome but not my TP then it ripped through that level. Content and moving on.

Stop brought to break even on this little break out over previous and premarket highs with significant volume out the gate. Slippage on the entry but wouldn't have taken profits here either way. Chop city. Content and moving on.

Feels good to be wrong and still lock in profits. Lots of internal work since last week and plenty more to do but I feel anew. 180-degree perspective change for me I found myself at 10% with enough time to exit but I'm trading different now. I'm using the set ups to ride the trend. This means more break-even trades, profits given from time to time, but I will begin capturing the larger part of the moves.

Not even mad, just disappointed. Lowered size, chased up a couple pennies & because of the bs previously I brought my stop loss up equally to reduce any extra crap & doing so I punted another, original stop never even looked at before it ripped 40% from my entry 2 minutes after getting stopped out. Tapping out for the day, this is too much.

WOW. What the hell is goin on today. Retested this after watching for a while, felt like the resistance was still too strong so I flattened my position in the green. The order executed my .51 exit at .45 ............. wtf 10 minutes later and it still hasn't even touched the .45s. Even with these ridiculous events my losses are managed, I did my job. That's 10% stolen from me twice. Rough way to end the year but a good place to bounce from.

Avoidable but almost impossible to dodge. Stop limit order placed 13% above current price action, where I believed if it grinded its way to, it would be a green signal for my set up. First time this has happened to me, and I was just in shock, jaw dropped for a moment. Normal price action then boom, ripped to my entry and before the bot could finish saying "order filled" it shot below my stop and fed me 2.5x the pain.

Sized down & still punted this. Commission & slippage took a couple bucks & I get reminded how powerful emotions can be and the importance of following through with my action. If I believe it is worth my money, I need to allow the plan to play out. This wasn't a great play but still room for a 2 to 1 holding the 9 the whole time.

Bread and butter. Not executed perfectly though, judgement felt cloudy and I still felt anxious, wanting to just lock in. Need room to breathe. Excited for this break. Coming back with a more refined process & repeatable action.

Ahh pt 3... Because everything was goin well. I was being super disciplined and staying on my toes. Cut the size and decided the risk (gamble) was worth it, retested the $2 cross with a stop limit buy over the wick of the previous push thinking it would cause another surge. I'm not that guy pal. Good lessons to review tonight. Still moving forward just a self-inflicted bump in the road. After having a taste of that trailing stop, I'm going to keep focused and keep taking good trades.

Retested again once major resistance was crossed. First time finding myself feeling like I have time in a trade instead of trying to get in and out with anything. I was able to trail my stop and at a certain point brought it to my goal and felt accomplished with this trade before it was done.