Hi There,
I had a bit of a personal melt down last week. I have far too many hobbies/jobs which I have trouble justifying when they won't make me wealthy. It boils down to wanting simplicity in my life. It is hard to explain but at times I just want to run off somewhere, get a part-time job, rent a room, and devote all my free time to trading/study/building etc. I don't have kids but I do have wonderful parents that need me, and if I have to honest, I need them. This depression passed(as it always does) and I have returned to watching the world turn. My trading has improved, I think. I am doing better but is it just luck? I still trade very small but that is what is needed as I work on honing my futures trading. My confidence is back and thats all that matters. I have thrown away those murky long term trades for scalps which focus on short moves. Now back to the good problems to have. How to increase profits and how to stay productive. Thanks for listening.

P&L (SIM)-Commissions included(1$ per micro round trip)
1. RotationalSim(only sim account now)=+72.75 with 5 trades (TOTAL=4222.50)

hI @FrankFrankie

You're definitely not alone. These feelings are fairly common, especially at the beginning of one's trading journey.


In case you haven't done so, I would highly recommend to check the Trading Psychology section of this site.

Hi There,
I am excited to trade this week and am wondering if others have to go through the same fog that I do every sunday night or monday morning. I have an entire process to "get in the groove" and become synced with markets. I have a few quotes like "Only the fool bends the tool" and "Passing on a bad trade is a good trade" to push me into the proper mental state that I need to trade. I also push myself to talk out loud and debate with myself as the day progresses and conditions change. I am genuinely curious what others do to pump themselves up. I am still not fully "in the groove" as I write this and often have to wait until tuesday for the fog to clear. I spend a good amount of time on the weekends doing trading adjacent things but do not look at current charts. I should. I don't have any good trades to share this week but I do have a missed trade that I recorded. Early last week I had a big loser and then spent the rest of the week recovering from it. Was mostly successful. My other investments have been mostly flat for months and I have a ton of anxiety about spending time on that. Perhaps my mistake with my investments is that II tweak them too much rather than just let it work. I did a full performance review of my automated long term strategy on friday and am kicking myself for not trusting it enough. If I would have just committed the majority of the funds to it and not tried to do other things, I would be very happy right now. This automated strategy is the only thing keeping me in the green at all in my investments. And even now, after seeing the proof that it works with a backtest, works in reality, I am still weary of just letting it rule. I am fearful that the moment I do that, market conditions will change radically. What if this happens... What if I had only done that... What if my ass fell off? Thanks for listening

P&L (SIM)-Commissions included(1$ per micro round trip)
1. RotationalSim(only sim account now)=-27 with 5 trades (TOTAL=4195.5)


The following is a trade that I missed but shows a nice set up the deserves to be seen. Wednesday July 8th 2026
-Price opened and immediately formed a range just above the open. Several signs started to emerge that buyers were losing control. Those signs being:
1.) Several long wicks pointing upwards showing auction preference for lower prices.
2.) Failure for any candles to make new highs after 0920
3.) General downward slant of candles.
4.) Most price action below POC and POC eventually migrating lower.
*Im sure others will see more
The perfect trade here would have been grabbing a single contract every time price failed to break VAH. This is sorta unrealistic so the more ideal trade would have been to go short after price pulled back to initial balance low around 10:40.


ESU26[MESU26 [CBV][M] 5 Min #1 2026-07-08 10~47~16.228