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Good day, plus $200.

Good day of trading. +$156 today.

+ $60 before I head to my job this morning.

The most important lesson is that your mind has to be sharp and fast if you want to daytrade profitably. If you feel groggy or sleepy, or have brain fog, it's going to cost you as it did me today. I can't blame my entire loss on brain fog perhaps, but a significant portion of my $400 loss...

I have to post this chart again, except on a 1-minute timeframe, and in a full-day view, because there are so many important lessons in this chart for me right now.

I'm going back to my full-time job on Monday, but will continue trading and posting here part-time, possibly just 2-3 days per week.

Actually the futures stopped trading at 5pm today (Friday!). But the DIA is up 50-cents since 5:00, which means the Dow futures right now would be the equivalent of 50 points higher (or 25,563). Just for perspective.

This is the Dow futures, 5-hour chart, as it currently stands, 6:40pm EST. Certainly doesn't give one the feeling of a "gap up and run" on Monday. Hmm. Currently neutral in my thinking for Monday.

Today is Juneteenth. And tomorrow Trump gives a speech in Tulsa. So another possibility is that his speech sparks riots and looting, and we find ourselves Monday morning with a gap down. Hmmm. Decisions, decisions, lol.

Here is the SPY chart for perspective. Doesn't look as good as QQQ. SPY looks like it could gap down on Monday and continue downward. Hmm.

I was surprised that it got down to $26.84 intraday and then bounced a dollar without first going through yesterday's low. That probably should have been a warning signal right there. Notice that it pushed through yesterday's low after-hours. I'm still trying to figure out the proper bias for...

Of course TNA follows IWM, not QQQ, so here is what the IWM chart looks/looked like today.

Here is a slightly different view of the QQQ. This is the view that looked so promising for new highs today. Hmm.

And here is what TNA did after hours