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Journaling is not optional
I write down the reason BEFORE I enter, not after. It's remarkable how many trades die at that step because I can't finish the sentence.
The 4-week trend strip changed how I filter
Before any entry I check the four-week bars on the Markets page. If my idea fights all four, I skip it. Simple filter, and it saves me from catching knives.
Silver finally broke the range
Six weeks of compression and it's through. I'm not chasing the first candle — I want the retest of the breakout level. If it doesn't come back, I miss it. That's fine.
What a losing week actually looks like
Down 2.1% this week across nine trades. No blow-ups, no revenge trades, no averaging down. This is what a losing week is supposed to look like — a cost of business, not a crisis.
Position sizing is the whole game
Two traders can take the exact same setup and one goes broke. The difference isn't the entry — it's what happens when it goes against you. I size so that being wrong is boring.
Why I stopped trading the open
Every one of my worst weeks started with a 9:30 entry. The first 20 minutes are other people's stop losses. I now do nothing until 10:00 and my win rate went up without changing a single indicator.
The trade I didn't take
Gold set up perfectly at the level I'd marked — but it arrived during the news window. I sat on my hands. It ran 80 pips without me. Still the right decision: my rule exists because of the times it isn't obvious.
The trend strip habit
Before any entry I check the 4-week trend strip on the Markets page — if my idea fights all four bars, I skip it. Simple filter, saves me from catching knives.
Risk first, chart second
I size every position off the stop distance, never off conviction. Conviction is how I used to blow up. 1% risk per idea means a bad week is boring instead of terminal.
My weekly prep routine
Sunday: mark the weekly high/low on the majors. Monday: do nothing. Tuesday onwards: only look for setups AT those marks. Cutting the random mid-range trades halved my losses.
Patience beats prediction
Waited two weeks for gold to retest the breakout level before doing anything. The trade wasn't the hard part — the waiting was. Levels are only useful if you let price come to them.
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