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12/12 TUE CPI report day. "Bad" news != bad news, the market firmly held a bullish bias. Did not have the right trading mindset today. Disruptions in my personal life bled into trading. Spent most of the day collecting stats and backtesting. es 5m

12/11 MON Small Monday before CPI, before FOMC, during es roll week. 5m es

12/8 FRI NFP. ES contract rolling week will start es 5m

12/7 THU Ok day. Holiday markets getting a bit lazy, replaying a lot of recent programs, with moves getting more efficient over each repeat. 5m es

12/6 WED Trend day. 5m es

12/5 TUE small trading range day, coiling tighter into nfp. es 5m

12/4 MON Meh day. One of the sub-systems got its timing perfect today. The operator (yours truly) had to interfere, and closed a good position too soon. Spent the weekend digging into my system. Got about one month's worth of rough stats to work with (October was too random to be useful <--...

backfilling 12/01 FRI on 12/02, bc was out sick on 12/01 PM @ironchef-- hi, thank you for stopping by and taking the time to reply. I will review my model and system this weekend. Happy Holidays and a profitable new year to you too! 5m es

making up for missing elements in journal entry 11/30 THU es 5m hi, @longandshort -- thanks for the question. my cumulative pnl is close to BE since Oct 9th, ugh because it's friday, I'll throw in more details for entertainment: * I trade in my training account--it's equities, no leverage...

11/30 EOM. An interesting day. Weak bear channel first half day; the market eventually found itself more stuck-short before the final hours of November and resolved upward into a late-day reversal/month-end covering rally. I took the PM (after B54~) off as I didn't have good experience trading...

11/29 WED was finally able to concentrate today. pnl a little better as a result. i probably used up most of my focus capital. have just enough energy to post two slide markups. 5m es ^what was most interesting to me today was there were a few places where I got stuck debating scenarios in my...

11/28 TUE (posted 11/29. did not hit post reply button the night before lol) Not a great day. The high-level plan covered today's scenario however I couldn't execute well. One big problem was I had other stuff on my mind Monday and Tuesday. I wasn't able to fully concentrate before B54...

11/27 MON Market felt as though it was still on holiday. Sleepy cyber Monday, small TRD. I was forcing trades and executed very poorly. While reviewing, my takeaway was that the trade logic wasn't terrible, but my management certainly was. each trade idea materialized to some degree (they have...

11/24 FRI I took today off (placed one LO to scalp short in B14, not filled, and then I basically signed off afterward). Recent history suggests the shortened Friday trading session after Thanksgiving is often a light and small day. Not sure how reliable this stats is though. I did spend some...

11/22 WED not happy with my trading today. i know quickly after the fact what I did wrong but that doesn't prevent me from making unforced errors at least once. the only bright spot is pnl still green and better than Monday and tuesday. having followed the market cycle framework for a while and...

11/21 TUE very meh day, small trading range day; better than BE but barely so. i spent hours backtesting an idea after the market closed, lost track of time; will post my simple plan for tomorrow and not much else simple plan ^i made the plan shortly after today's market close. now with new...

11/20 MON Not good, BE day. It's 100% my fault. Some bigger issues imo: *consistently slow starter on Mondays *plan did not cover all contingencies--critically, overlooked a piece of key cycle context on 60m *trading was sloppy later in the day as I got tired 5m es

11/17 FRI a typo in yest slide. 1116 es, not 1115 es. today was a better day. made better plans, traded better, better pnl. what made a world of difference today is my level of focus. that's what "mind over markets" means to me (sorry dalton if I completely missed your point) also put together...

11/16 THU Not so great, BE day. Distracted and had a slow start. Nevertheless, am looking forward to Friday. 5m es for anyone reading, my labeling looks like silly gibberish haha. a personal process has been developing organically. it's very basic stuff, the labels are just mental shortcuts...

11/15 WED Good day. A lot of reviewing and planning left to do and a bit behind already. 5m es