Yesterday made several trades, but didn't have time for journaling. Will fill everything today.

# 28.08.2025 - MGC

## 📊 Context

- **Opening Type**: Open Drive
- **Opening Location**:Outside Value
- **Day Type (Projection)**: Double Distribution
- **Shape Type (TPO)**: b (probably long liquidation)
- **Overnight Range**: Wide
- **Bias**: 🟢 Bullish
- **Narrative**: Trend continuation

@MGC - Context - Aug-28 0741 AM (Tick(800))


# 28.08.2025 - MES

## 📊 Context

- **Opening Type**: Open Drive
- **Opening Location**: Inside Value
- **Day Type (Projection)**: Trend
- **Shape Type (TPO)**: Trend
- **Overnight Range**: Wide
- **Bias**: 🟢 Bullish
- **Narrative**: Trend continuation


# 28.08.2028 - MCL

## 📊 Context


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

@MCL - Context - Aug-28 0743 AM (Tick(300))

Yesterday I made big amount of trades following my rules. They was in profit, but they all was scalps, I was not satisfy the fact that they scalps and I pay a lot for commission. So today I decided to hold trades for longer time through pullbacks. Unfortunately today I lost all yesterday profit, but I find out that if I feel uncomfortable, I need to close trade, even if I don't believe in intuition - somehow it works. Probably instead of wider stops and profit targets - I need more tight stops and targets but scale in or use bigger size, because all my best results come from consistent profits on 1-2Rm with only several ticks in profit. I need to think about it, because never thought about scalping, but the best results come from them and trading risk events.

I notice that on footprint - different assetts behave differently.
For example it really shown absorption for MGC. Price usually trending in imbalance, when imbalance stopped - better close the trade.
For MES - imbalance rarely occurs, more often first I see absorption and after I wait decrease of velocity on tape near absorption level. When delta shift - there is a bigger chance of winning trade if I enter.
MCL is totally different, it's could sit on range for long amount of time and than jump through the ladder quickly and stop again, in most cases after jump it reverse, so better to close half and tight stops after reach 1R.

I need rethink my process a little bit. Initially I was using TPO for my main assumption of price direction. While it useful, I notices that anyway I more focused on ladders and footprint. I still using TPO to define possible levels of interaction.

I changed setting for MGC chart to 1000 ticks, because 800 was not enough and there was big amount of movements. Didn't expect so much trades on MGC.

# 01.09.2025 - MGC

## 📊 Context

- **Opening Type**: Open Drive
- **Opening Location**: Outside Value
- **Day Type (Projection)**: Trend
- **Shape Type (TPO)**: Trend
- **Overnight Range**: Wide
- **Bias**: ⚪ Neutral
- **Narrative**: Big move already happen, or rotate in current value or move down to previous.

@MGC - Context - Sep-01 1010 AM (Tick(1K))


# 01.09.2025 - MES

## 📊 Context

- **Opening Type**: Open Auction In Range
- **Opening Location**: Inside Value
- **Day Type (Projection)**: Normal
- **Shape Type (TPO)**: None yet
- **Overnight Range**: Wide
- **Bias**: 🟢 Bullish
- **Narrative**: Rotate in previous day range, suggest that current move down is pullback.

@MES - Context - Sep-01 1010 AM (Tick(1.5K))


# 01.09.2025 - MCL

## 📊 Context

- **Opening Type**: Open Auction In Range
- **Opening Location**: Inside Value
- **Day Type (Projection)**: Normal
- **Shape Type (TPO)**: b
- **Overnight Range**: Wide
- **Bias**: Neutral
- **Narrative**: While price today suggest bullish move, price couldn't reach previous high for several profile in row.

@MCL - Context - Sep-01 1010 AM (Tick(300))

# 01.09.2025 - MES Trade 1

## 📌 Setup & Context

- **Location in Profile**: Single Prints / LVN / HVN / Edge / Breakout / Inside Balance

- **Screenshot at 30m**:
@MES - Context - Sep-01 1026 AM (Tick(1.5K))

- **Screenshot at 3m**:
@MES - Footprint - Sep-01 1026 AM (P&F(5,3))


## ⚙️ Execution

- **Trigger Type**: Absorption Footprint Imbalance Tape
- **Entry Reason**: Leaving of POC in direction with trend. Overall good trend signal with small pullback, where I enter.
- **Exit Reason**: TP

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

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

Row of bad trades due to revenge.

All MGC:

Trade 1

## 📌 Setup & Context

- **Location in Profile**: Breakout

- **Screenshot at 30m**:
@MGC - Context - Sep-01 1100 AM (Tick(1K))


- **Screenshot at 3m**:

@MGC - Footprint - Sep-01 1100 AM (P&F(4,3))


## ⚙️ Execution

- **Trigger Type**: Level breakout away from POC. Volume increase
- **Entry Reason**: Level breakout away from POC. Volume increase
- **Exit Reason**: SL, but could exit with profit. The problem that MGC move with jumps, so very hard to spot signals.

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

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


Trade 2

## 📌 Setup & Context

- **Location in Profile**: HVN

- **Screenshot at 30m**:
@MGC - Context - Sep-01 1101 AM (Tick(1K))

- **Screenshot at 3m**:
@MGC - Footprint - Sep-01 1101 AM (P&F(4,3))


## ⚙️ Execution

- **Trigger Type**:None
- **Entry Reason**: Thought that it's pullback from breakout.
- **Exit Reason**: SL

## 📈 Outcome
- **oss**
- **Would I take this trade again?** No
- **Emotion check**:Rushed

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

## 📌 Setup & Context

- **Location in Profile**: LVN

- **Screenshot at 30m**:

@MGC - Context - Sep-01 1106 AM (Tick(1K))



- **Screenshot at 3m**:

@MGC - Footprint - Sep-01 1106 AM (P&F(4,3))


## ⚙️ Execution

- **Trigger Type**: REVENGE
- **Entry Reason**: REVENGE
- **Exit Reason**: SL

## 📈 Outcome
- **loss**
- **Would I take this trade again?** No
- **Emotion check**: Rushed

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

## 📌 Setup & Context

- **Location in Profile**: LVN

- **Screenshot at 30m**:
@MGC - Context - Sep-01 1122 AM (Tick(1K))

- **Screenshot at 3m**:
@MGC - Footprint - Sep-01 1123 AM (P&F(4,3))


## ⚙️ Execution

- **Trigger Type**: Suggest, that I pick the bottom.
- **Entry Reason**: Suggest, that I pick the bottom.
- **Exit Reason**:SL

## 📈 Outcome
- **loss**
- **Would I take this trade again?** No
- **Emotion check**: Rushed

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

I'm removing MGC from my list for some time. I couldn't properly read its behavior, there is no absorption, price jumps with strong imbalance, orders often pulled off. Prices trend not due to volume, but due to lack of liquidity, I often see that, when someone start buying even with not big volume, orders simply pulled of and price jumps till it find liquidity, after it could immediately reverse, I don't have a good reaction to trade it. I'll be focused more on MES. I keep MCL also, while it have very thin liquidity, if it start trending in the morning, it could do it till evening,