This week we took 6 trades:
1 winner, around 4R
1 loss
4 break-even trades
Not a perfect week, but still a profitable one.
This is closer to what real trading looks like. Some trades work, some don’t, some get protected at break-even, and sometimes one good trade pays for the rest.
I couldn’t be on the charts as much today, but even if I could, I wasn’t ready to put big risk on the table. It’s Friday, it’s the day of the SpaceX IPO, and the higher timeframe structure on NQ looked horrible.
We were trading between two weekly gaps and two daily gaps, which increases the chance of messy, range-bound price action. In that kind of environment, forcing trades makes no sense.
A lot of what you see online is filtered. I’ve been in plenty of groups where only the best trades get shown and everything else disappears. That’s not how I want to run this community.
We’ll show the wins, the losses, the break-evens, and the days where the best decision is to do nothing.
Over a full year, most of your PnL will usually come from a small number of trades. The rest of the time is about managing risk properly and not giving money back while waiting for those trades to come.