My first twenty years of trading I kept two journals, one for the signals and the other for emotions and what little voice was saying what I should do, but didn't. Eventually I used columns and figured out I had reoccurring emotional thoughts and through time I found that what I saw was over 90 % of the time, I was wrong of what I saw after I was in a trade. I actually thought for a very long time that 'they" would force the market to devise price bars to make me feel in a certain way, LOL. I became very good at "feeling" when it was BMW trade/stay longer or let's end the trade early to save a little. But what I became good at was just keeping journals going and not do what emotions were saying and instead, form rules that I could back test but were based on my emotions. So like on the "runners" when I get the BMW feeling, instead of canceling stops, more prone to get out. When I get the feeling to end trade early-add contracts and risk much smaller. Developed Time stops to get to breakeven plus one tick based on winning trades to get to breakeven. Time stops made a huge difference for me. Those commissions really add up, so getting that plus one or two ticks on breakeven trades cut out the commissions altogether after awhile.
I notice on your charts when you enter in "wave 3" of course you do well, but getting in late are losses. I have trouble understanding what you identify trend to be?
One thing I discovered long ago was so many ticks beyond recent pivot to be continuation of trend or if less than that "number of ticks" was good possibility of reversion to the mean and trend trades not to be taken.
