Bad entries were the main reason I jumped ship. Told myself that I should only be entering around $15, or even high 14s, and I still didn't stick to my guns. However, I did say that if $15 didn't hold, I would call it a day, and once I saw 14s starting to print, I pulled the trigger. Painful loss, but I'm still overall positive on JOAN.

These entries were all too high. Should have stuck to my guns and waited till at least mid-15s if not low 15s/high 14s. Gotta learn to let the stock come to me, not chase it.

Annoyed that I didn't take profits when it was above 16 days prior, and it got slapped back down. So now I'm just taking profits when it gets close to resistance. I'll inevitably miss out on the big runup, if/when that happens, but better than being in this thing for weeks because I was waiting for a homerun.

Really sloppy entries. Jumped in at $16 and watched it fall all day. Averaged down at $15.75 and it continued to fall. Averaged down the next day at $15.45 and $15.15, the last one on leverage. And it went even further the next day down to $14.50. Terrible entries all around. Thankfully, I only had to wait one more day and it was back to $16 at which I got out. I want to keep playing this one, but with better entries.

Had I been more patient with this, I could have come out ahead, but it's a scary one. No volume, the spread is wider than the Grand Canyon. When it moves, it moves in huge percentages. So as I saw it start to break above resistance, I played it safe. I was a little patient though, as my loss was much bigger before, but I waited for it to come down a bit. I thought I saw this stock showing signs of cracking, but it looks more to be consolidating. No play for now.

Ok, this is probably my biggest fuckup of the year. And it wasn't because of impulsiveness, or lack of planning. It was going fine actually. But I put in a sell order premarket at $7.35, but I hadn't had my coffee and I was putting it in on my mobile device which I've never done before. Long story short, it was a BUY and not a SELL. So it completely fucked my average price, put me in a margin call, and just made for a really bad day. Never trading before coffee again.

Now we're talking! This is a trade I actually planned out the night before. I literally dreamed about it. Even though the % profit isn't that great, I'm mostly proud that I got in on the second red candle of the day, and nearly called the bottom. I watched the super slow and boring price action all day. I gave myself a $22.50 stop out, in case the trade went against me, but it never got that close after the open. The only thing I didn't like about this was that I was shorting a 52-week high.

Another channel trade. It actually ran another 2 days before completely tanking back to $35.

Part II of my channel plays. Got out premarket because it likes to gap and crap. Happens every time, it's so predictable.

My second attempt at JOAN. This time, I saw it in a channel between 14 and 16. Fuck the breakout, I'll start taking sure small gains. This was one of 4 channel trades I made and one of 3 that worked out.