I enjoy reading your thought process and trades, so keep it up!Or just too early and too tight stops.
Not much margin of error in this game.
But as an observer, its just obvious to me that if you're going for 20 point wins, which you do like to do, you're gonna get a much lower win rate and lots of BE trades than if you're going for 5 to maybe 10 points. It of course sucks to see a 5 point trade go 20 points, but there is simply no way to know which trades hits +5 and come all the way back to BE, or which trade will go +20 and hence you should hold. If it goes +5 and comes all the way back, you have nothing to show for it.
So I have to re-iterate my idea for you to trade 10 MES instead of 1 ES. Then you close out some at +5, some at +10, and leave the rest as a runner or BE exit. I think your win rate will be higher than what you're getting from hanging on for +20, and although total profits on one trade won't equal the $1,000 you get on 1 ES going 20 points, you will have more $200, $300 or $500 profit trades.
Heck, you can even leave 1 MES for an overnight continuation. I remember reading you write that you would sleep like a baby if you had 1 MES on for overnight, which 1 ES would cause you panic. So I think the dopamine hit of a higher percentage of wins, along with a smaller runner to stay in the game will works wonders to calm your mind and provide a consistent supply of money rolling in.
