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...
by Tilley | Jun 30, 2023 | Trade Reviews, Trading
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...
by Tilley | Jun 2, 2023 | Trade Reviews, Trading
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...
by Tilley | May 24, 2023 | Trade Reviews, Trading
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...
by Tilley | May 19, 2023 | Trade Reviews, Trading
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...
