When you have a good gain and nail the price action ($RCON) early in the week, you get overconfident. The rest of the week you want to make more, you want to do better, that's human nature to be GREEDY.
But with that mindset of almost needing to do better, you start forcing setups and plays that aren't there or just haven't developed yet. This is what I did with $SPI by anticipating a breakout by trying to save 1-2 cents...never worth it.
And then to top the week off chasing a play ($FORD) because I had missed better entries when the stock wasn't overextended. These mistakes and compounded losses are that wasn't disciplined and didn't need to happen.
Moving forward I want to focus on the best by paying more attention to risk reward, intraday pattern, and multi-day pattern.
@vmunz yes trading scared, although uncomfortable, is really the best way
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