It's been about a week of unprecedented stability and I figured that I am ready to step up game into becoming a professional trader. I am going to use this community for accountability on meeting my daily process targets. Today's Main Goal: Read Part 1 of Anchored VWAP book and take notes ( 60 pages in total)

Good days work! Cheers!

Adjusted medication to a higher dose, and added to my morning routine breathwork and working memory training which should help stabilize dopamine and stress levels. Today was one of my most productive days in a long time. I spent the most of it going through the lessons and I did about 4 ones in total. I am still in the process of making flashcards for them, so that I can study them over time and really internalize all the concepts. I liked the concept of self governance as a must for trading, and the shifting of the dominant brainwaves states we want to have during trading. I think this alone would solve a lot of trading issues that I had in the past, and having a clear sequence of where I should be in what moment in the market, makes it really simple to follow. There was so much in each session, and it gives me a whole list of stuff to work on, which motivates me a lot. Some things, like exiting off of MAE/MFE data, I've been doing intuitively, but not to the level of statistically analyzing those different setups. This especially would effect how I trail stops, because that is something I would do quite often when scalping. Lastly, the cycle sizing matrix was a brand new concept and I guess my biggest question is whether we define the cycle based on the larger timeframes in general or based on the timeframes we are looking to trade? Looking forward to another awesome and productive day tomorrow. I love learning and doing this stuff and I'm grateful I found this community to help guide me along the way.

Haven't checked in a while. I had another pretty big flair up of my condition that took me out of the game for a few days. I thought it's important to share here, because me treating it and getting better is integral to my success as a trader. I have quite a severe version of bipolar type 2, in that I have been cycling into episodes 1-3 times per week. It's been extremely debilitating and has taken a massive toll on my life. I'm extremely lucky for my wife, sticking with me and I am even more blessed to have become a father through all this. I didn't want to share it because I wanted the focus to be on my trading rather than my disorder and admitting bipolar in this business could really damage any reputation I would try to build with a prop firm or investors in the future. But this is my reality, and I don't want to hide from it anymore. I'd rather put in the work and have a great track record that speaks for itself. I've been off medication for a while. I've tried a bunch of stuff but it hasn't really helped or even made it worse. I've done a great job with mitigating each episodes and the intensity of most of them has really diminished. Still, they happen really frequently, and I am going back to seeing a psychiatrist because there are still a lot of things I haven't tried. I started doing 4-6 hours of walking on my treadmill desk, and meditation and those things have benefitted me a ton, but still haven't stopped the episodes from happening. I am going to make meditation one of my priorities this month, since it is really changing my life for the better and has so much carryover to trading. That said, today was a really productive day. I was able to set up a monthly volume profile on Sierra Chart and watched a bunch of tutorials regarding footprint charts and other indicators. Sierra Chart is quite a complicated platform but I am beginning to get the hang of it and I think that by the end of the month I will be quite proficient with it. After I setup my charts, I am going to rack up 100 trades on replayer and analyze them, with the goal of proving profitability and gathering data on my psychology, behavior and setups.

Just a heads up. ES is currently trading at 7598.00. This is a tricky area when looking at the 60 minute chart. I suspect a test of the overnight lows is in the cards, but that is likely a trap to move higher. Just giving you a forward looking view. Risk is the move 15 points lower to trap traders. Then a move right back to this location. Our trade from yesterdays trap to the sell side is completed for 42 points total hitting our max MFE target.