On Position Management
I've been doing a lot of trading soul-searching these days. It has been a long slog of (almost) a year of trying to pass a prop firm evaluation to get funded. But it's also been a very educational year; I have learned SO MUCH from Adam Mancini in terms of picking up...
Red day thoughts
After taking a pummeling in my accounts in mid-January, I mentally reset and got my act together to string a win streak for the rest of the month. Broke the streak today, womp womp. My eval account wasn't in bad shape, but I had a free reset from Topstep that is set...
2024 babyyyyy!
Howdy, party peeps! Welcome to the new year. As far as trading is concerned, 2023 was a blah/slightly red year for me, but a very big year for learning. I focused mainly on ES (aside from the few times I derailed myself with SPX options and the occasional one-off...
Trade Review: 9/27/23
We finally got a tradable bounce today! And I was finally able to catch some points via the fake breakdown that happened this afternoon. In full disclosure: I took a few trades before this FBD. I did short this morning after it seemed like price was not making much...
Climbing back on ye olde wagon
Why hello there, how are you. You never call, you never write...oh wait, that's me. Hi hi. It's been a minute! I have indeed been trading since July, but I have gotten VERY lazy about tracking my trades and blogging (obvi), and boyyyy does my P&L show it. My...
Trade Review: 7/10/23
Under "normal" circumstances ("normal" is very subjective now that I have a 7-month-old), I never would have caught this trade. But my baby woke me up around 2:30 am for a late night snack, and I was able to place a trade. But let me back up first: Mancini has talked...
Trade Review: 6/29/23
It's been a little while, but I finally caught another Failed Break Down setup today! Between taking care of my baby, traveling, and still learning the ins and outs of NinjaTrader (which I'm getting a little better at, btw), I haven't been around the computer in the...
Prop firm + Trade Review: 6/1/23
Maybe I have just been out of the loop, but over the last couple months, I've been hearing more and more about trading futures via prop firms. There are quite a few out there: Uprofit, Topstep, Apex, etc...but I recently decided to give Bulenox a try thanks to a...
Trade Review: 5/23/23
Today, in a word: oof. The day began with me eyeballing the Sunday night low of 4186.50: Here's the breakdown: Low: 4186.50 Low of Undercut: 4186 Entry trigger: 4192 First target: 4205 Second target: 4217 Stop Loss: 4184.25 Factors in favor: RSI reset clipped lowest...
Trade Review: 5/17/23
Took a trade from the 16th into the 17th -- an OVERNIGHT trade! *le gasp* Here's the breakdown: Low: 4120.50 Low of Undercut: 4120 Entry trigger: 4126.50 First target: 4134 Second target: 4148 Stop Loss: 4118 (then moved up to trailing stop) Factors in favor: EOD...