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A boring month is a good month
Eleven trades, six winners, up 3.4%. Nothing dramatic happened and that is precisely the point. Consistency isn't exciting to watch.
Bitcoin's weekend behaviour
Thin liquidity on Saturday and Sunday makes levels lie. I don't take crypto entries on a weekend anymore — the wick that stops me out never appears on the weekday chart.
The stop loss you move is not a stop loss
Learned this the expensive way. If you widen it once, you'll widen it again. The number you set when you were calm is the number that was right.
Why I trade fewer pairs now
I used to watch fourteen pairs and know none of them. Now I watch four and I know how they breathe. Depth beat breadth for me.
Waiting for the retest of the DAX breakout
Marked the breakout level and that's my line. Above it I'm interested, below it I'm not. That's the entire plan and I'm not adding to it.
Three green days does not make me a genius
Noting this here so I read it back later. The market gives you a run, then asks for it back with interest the moment you start believing you've solved it.
Oil is a different animal
Crude doesn't respect technical levels the way indices do — it respects inventories and headlines. I trade it smaller and with wider stops, or I don't trade it at all.
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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