by Tilley | Apr 13, 2024 | Rules, Trading
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...
by Tilley | Feb 5, 2024 | Trading
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...
by Tilley | Jan 7, 2024 | Rules, Trading
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...
by Tilley | Sep 28, 2023 | Trading
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...
by Tilley | Sep 23, 2023 | Rules, Trading
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...
by Tilley | Jul 11, 2023 | Trade Reviews, Trading
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...