Trade template

# 13.08.2025 - MCL Trade 2

## 📌 Setup & Context

- **Location in Profile**: Breakout from POC

- **Screenshot at 30m**:
@MCL - Context - Aug-13 0956 AM (30 min)


- **Screenshot at 3m**:
@MCL - Footprint - Aug-13 0957 AM (3 min)

## ⚙️ Execution

- **Trigger Type**: Footprint Imbalance, Tape
- **Entry Reason**: Strong rejection from higher value, breakout from POC, increase in volume and imbalance.
- **Exit Reason**: First exit on absorption, trail SL and second exit on SL.

## 📈 Outcome
- **Win**
- **Would I take this trade again?** Yes
- **Emotion check**: Calm, Confident

## 🔁 Review Flags
- [ ] Hesitation
- [ ] Poor read
- [x] Good execution
- [ ] Misjudged context
- [ ] Impulse

# 14.08.2025 - MGC

## 📊 Context

- **Opening Type**: Open Rejection Reverse
- **Opening Location**: Inside Value
- **Day Type (Projection)**: Trend
- **Shape Type (TPO)**: b (is it reversal or long liquidation ?)
- **Overnight Range**: Wide
- **Bias**: 🟢 Bullish
- **Narrative**:Reach previous high and calm down before economic data.

@MGC - Context - Aug-14 0839 AM (30 min)


# 14.08.2025- MES

## 📊 Context


- **Opening Type**: Open Auction In Range
- **Opening Location**: Inside Value
- **Day Type (Projection)**: Normal
- **Shape Type (TPO)**: D
- **Overnight Range**: Narrow
- **Bias**: ⚪ Neutral
- **Narrative**:Market wait for ecumenic data

@MES - Context - Aug-14 0838 AM (30 min)


# 14.08.2025 - MCL

## 📊 Context

- **Opening Type**: Open Auction In Range
- **Opening Location**: Inside Value
- **Day Type (Projection)**: Normal
- **Shape Type (TPO)**: D
- **Balance Zone (if any)**:
- **Bias**:⚪ Neutral
- **Narrative**: Market wait for Alaska meeting

@MCL - Context - Aug-14 0839 AM (30 min)

# 14.08.2025 - MGC Trade 1

## 📌 Setup & Context

- **Location in Profile**: Breakout of POC in direction of previous day high.

- **Screenshot at 30m**:
@MGC - Context - Aug-14 0916 AM (30 min)


- **Screenshot at 3m**:

@MGC - Footprint - Aug-14 0916 AM (3 min)


## ⚙️ Execution

- **Trigger Type**:Footprint Imbalance, tape
- **Entry Reason**: Price break POC and start to move to previous high
- **Exit Reason**: Half exit on absorption, another one on BE (trailed stop)

## 📈 Outcome
- **Win**
- **Would I take this trade again?** Yes
- **Emotion check**: Calm Confident

## 🔁 Review Flags
- [ ] Hesitation
- [ ] Poor read
- [x] Good execution
- [ ] Misjudged context
- [ ] Impulse

14.08.2025 MES

This trade was made on risk event, unfortunately, I couldn't provide screens, because I got again this bug with MotiveWave, when order was executed with past date.
I waited for pullback, absorption and enter, exit on opposite absorption, made 3R.

Go to vacation till the middle of next week. This week ended with positive expectancy and overall on trades losses much smaller than winners:

Need to add templates from Dalton book to better evaluate asset performance.

@VillainAntagonist,

Your transition to positive expectancy shows systematic improvement. The 3R trade on MES demonstrates disciplined exit management - recognizing opposite absorption as your exit signal indicates mature market reading skills.

The MotiveWave execution bug you mentioned (orders with past timestamps) is frustrating but documenting it helps identify patterns. Consider keeping a separate log of platform issues to differentiate between trading errors and technical glitches.

Your focus on keeping losses smaller than winners is fundamental to long-term success. Adding Dalton's market profile templates will enhance your asset evaluation framework. Profile analysis particularly helps identify value areas where your absorption setups might have higher probability.

Enjoy your vacation - stepping away with positive expectancy reinforces good trading psychology. Markets reward patience more than activity.

When you return, how are you planning to incorporate the Dalton templates into your current absorption-based strategy?

-- Fi
"The Matrix is everywhere. It is all around us."

# 22.08.2025 - MGC

## 📊 Context

- **Opening Type**: Open Drive
- **Opening Location**: Inside Value
- **Day Type (Projection)**: Normal
- **Shape Type (TPO)**: Trend
- **Overnight Range**: Wide
- **Bias**: ⚪ Neutral
- **Narrative**:No any narrative, waiting for Jackson Hole

@MGC - Context - Aug-22 0941 AM (30 min)


MES

- **IB Range**:
- **IB vs Average**: ⬆️ Above / ⬇️ Below / 🔄 Equal
- **IB Classification**: Wide / Narrow
- **Opening Type**: Open Rejection Reverse
- **Opening Location**: Inside Value
- **Day Type (Projection)**: Normal
- **Shape Type (TPO)**: P
- **Overnight Range**: Wide
- **Balance Zone (if any)**:
- **Bias**: ⚪ Neutral
- **Narrative**:No any narrative, waiting for Jackson Hole

@MES - Context - Aug-22 0941 AM (30 min)


MCL

- **Opening Type**: Open Auction Out Range
- **Opening Location**: Outside Value
- **Day Type (Projection)**: Normal
- **Shape Type (TPO)**: D
- **Overnight Range**: Narrow
- **Bias**: 🟢 Bullish
- **Narrative**: Price continue trending, overall bullish bias, but don't see any opportunities for momentum. Price trend slowly.

@MCL - Context - Aug-22 0942 AM (30 min)

I'm back from vacation, but sick all week. Will not trade today, because in bias - today non convince day due to evening FED chair speak.

Today was pretty busy at home, open only single trade, but in bad location near high absorption on CL. I was in trade for several hours in loss, close it immediately on BE, didn't have time to monitor trade, but after I close it - price go in my favor with big upside move. Feel bad due to this, but I shouldn't in first place to open such trade, when I don't have much time to follow it.