Trade 42 -37 points


Impulse bull bar but no follow through full stop out this is the weakest part of my trading so far in this sample size. My loss size is just too large

Trade 43 +13 points


Impulse bullish bar above 9 EMA +13 points

Trade 44 +6.5 points


Another bullish impulse bar at +6.5 points

July 17 2 hour window


July 17 Preformance -21.5 points


Today the biggest problem with my trading presented itself again which is outsized losses I have to begin hard capping my stops at 20 points, otherwise I will spend the rest of the day climbing out of a hole instead of keeping my losses correlated to my winning trades

Finished the day - 21.5 points so very reasonable but when I take a loss it so far is always a large loss compared to the size of my winners

July 13-July 17 Preformance


A week that ended green at + 33.5 points

But my winners just are scalps but my losses are swings so I will need to figure out what needs to change.

30 Sessions reults 1 minute MNQ


Took roughly 2 months but completed the task 30 sessions one market with defined stop loss on every trade.
The market I chose was MNQ the reason for that was simply the opportunity would be consistent for a 1-minute chart.
While I was correct in opportunity my risk per trade was skewed on mnq even the 1 minute 20 points ($40) could not consistently be my default risk on the 1-minute chart.

The biggest takeaway from my 30 sessions was even though I net made money the trading was not long term profitable with a profit factor of 1.19. 56 trades total taken.

What I love about trading is the same thing that makes it so humbling. THE NUMBERS DON'T LIE. I believe it was @HumbleTrader who pointed out that my trading profitably is dramatically skewed towards the Dow futures both MYM and YM and after completing my 30-session exercise I would tend to agree with what the data over the last 5 years had already clearly stated. I am still glad I completed this 30-session exercise and gave myself a real chance at trading the Nasdaq.

Moving forward I will focus all of my trading on Dow futures both MYM and YM. I will continue the journal and journey here as a reminder to just stay focused. There was a outage I believe for a week or two, but I am glad to see it is back up. Just doing this journal was a great exercise in forcing myself to not lie to myself about my trading competency and profitability.

[yt]https://www.youtube.com/@SoberTrader1517[/yt]

Going to stream my trading starting Monday just to build a visual archive of each trading day