Decided to be long MES at 10:13. Price closed above those overnight highs and started gapping up, so put in an entry on the 2-minute chart. I was feeling pretty confident in this one so I left it to play out as I took my mother-in-law to a doctor's appointment, but came back to find a loss. Nothing ventured, nothing gained. Time to chalk this one up in my journal and clear my mind for the rest of the day.

There was a little bit of a recovery overnight from Friday's sell-off; not quite taking back the whole day, but made up for a good portion of it. ES and NQ have both already wicked past OHN, and I don't really see a ONL that is particularly appealing right now. So, I'm going to want to see aggressive price movement in either direction before I decided to take a trade. Bullishly; I'm looking for price to close above Friday's Asian session high then pull back for an entry on a bullish continuation, or dump right at open and tap into the lower 1-hour FVG from Friday afternoon then structure shift back higher for a bullish reversal. On the bearish side; for a reversal move I'd want to see price retake ONL and then structure shift lower. For a bearish continuation I would want to see price close out that Friday afternoon FVG and then retrace back up to around ONL for my entry. My bias is still pretty bearish, considering none of the issues that have been causing all the panic in the markets have been resolved yet. The war, oil and gas, interests rates, AI trade uncertainty; all of it remains a question mark, so even if we get some relief today I do think we're heading lower in the coming weeks and months. I think a significant catalyst for the market to start pushing back higher would be a definitive end to the Iran war. The questions surrounding the AI buildout and who will be the winners and losers will only be revealed with time, so in my mind the war is the hot button at the moment. Anyway, I see that Kyle has just posted his plan so I'm gonna go see what I got wrong 😁. Happy Monday everybody!!

I had a short morning. Had to run out and do some errands around 10:30 so didn't really get any moves in. I did map out a short on MES that ended up playing out, but I had to log out before it came back to fill. Considered just entering the sell order and walking away for the morning and letting whatever happened happen, but I had a pretty positive week; 3 winning days, 2 days with no trades, P&L in the green for the week so I figured I'd carry that positive momentum into next week and not gamble on a huge retracement that might end up as a straight up reversal. So, have a great weekend everyone.

After Amazon's disappointing earnings last night, and the sell-off we had in the overnight I'm coming into today with a bearish bias overall. Having said that, I want to be really careful today and not be too quick to jump in. My gut tells me we're going to pump a little bit at open and then just drop off a cliff, or a dump right at open, but not going to make any moves until I see clear intent one way or the other. Not ruling out bullish trades today, but they're not prominent on my radar right now. Be careful out there.

Decided to be long MNQ 9:43. Set my stop too aggressively, I think. Looks like the move is playing out, but I was stopped out. On to tomorrow.