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0116 TUE what worked today--open drive search (system returned "semi": "long" and "energy": "short); 60m cycle models; monday night W1 plans; what did not work--mindset (distracted by work all day); identified some gaps in my model (conditions not clearly defined); not enough hours in the day...

0111 THU no trades today. waiting for a 120m trade setup to mature--tomorrow and or next week. there weren't many great system trades for me today mostly because of timescale (mis)alignment. one trade the system would have taken is long index after b39. one requirement of that trade is a pair...

0110 WED Not too many my kind of opportunities showed up today. what worked today--PA (reading relative strength between the two sides kept me out of trouble, internals), 60m channel real time analysis, time of day functions, more productive after market close today; what didn't work--open...

0109 TUE decent day what worked--read the market ok, read relative strengths well, adhered to systems, and managed execution very well. <-- really need to template today's process flow what did not--time management after market close, self-inflicted brain fry (product of poor prioritization...

01/08 MON Not a lot of comments on the index today -- strong trend day, no bar below 20ema etc. Exited all of my trades too early today. Scalped where I should have swung, etc etc. my daily process after the market close was a wreck. overwhelmed with work and the amount of...

01/05 FRI happy friday, traders and all. took today off, I'll wrap the week up with a quick summary of some takeaways from the first week of 2024 if I find time this weekend, i'd share chart markups and or plans for the coming week. they say there is a big winter storm coming though. i...

01/04 THU lots of opps*, at least earlier today the top of the opportunity funnel was too full for me to manage effectively. not all of them converted and I wasted bandwidth here and there. lessons learned. *since mid-December last year (a little more than two months into this journaling...

01/03 WED No report today. Doing deep work tonight. General comment-- trading range Z day for the most part as planned. odds of trendier PA in the next two sessions may be improving. HTF shifting into more TR regime.

01/02 TUE the good: type-2 system continues to test well in field. since tightening up a few parameters, the opps that filter through appear to be of better quality. the bad: sometimes feel rushed to multi-task--filtering opps in real time, monitoring multiple markets, constantly making...

12/29 FRI Backfilling journal entry. (had an amazing New Year's) es 5m

12/28 THU 2nd last trading session of the year. another small range-bound TRD. i did not find many safe trades from my small playbook in emini today, unfortunately, mostly practiced type-2 playbook trade entry in stocks, tests went well. the broker with whom I have my training account had a...

12/27 WED A trading range day. es 5m almost fully recovered from holiday hangovers!

12/25 MON Had the sweetest Christmas. Returned from a trip over the weekend a moment again. Friday report was incomplete--did not trade on Friday before xmas holiday, tested a few more system variants, updated playbook library. Tuesday plan: no trading plan. administrative work. will be back to...

12/21 THU not my best day. biggest takeaway today is--must focus on being where I have an edge. there were markets on my scanner that featured more promising environments for my playbook trades. instead of being where my systems have the highest probability of profiting, I was forcing trades in...

12/20 WED Turnaround Wednesday? Haha. Interesting day. Constructive day for me: a new playbook trade type I was working on tested well in field today, then I took the PM off to run a few holiday errands. The first playbook trade type continues to fire in markets i watch. Missed a good one in...

12/19 TUE running experiments in single stock markets today. pros: -- they teach me a more diverse set of lessons about my playbook trade in a shorter period, i am picking up the fine line between working variants and false positives faster; -- they gave me ideas to add to future playbook...

12/18 MON morning trading wasn't very smooth. big storm in the area, I had to check on a down fence and some trees a few times (became safety hazards) which did not help. highlights today / from the weekend: ran more analysis based on @Georpe 's last comment (thanks for often stopping by and...

12/15 FRI did not manage today's TR well. bar-by-bar notes show I did not find good entries around several TR MR locations. systems sputtering a bit in today's trading environment; I need more calibration. early on during the AM session was trying to trade single stock markets that exhibited...

12/14 THU good day for PA. 5m es

12/13 WED FOMC day. Though there was a somewhat predictable iow tradable TR prior to the statement and presser, price movement paled in comparison to what came after. I did freeze after 2pm ET (B55)--the original plan was to avoid trading FOMC, and I did stick with it. I think a conflict that...