Today marked the first day in a while where I managed to turn a profit again. While the P&L is definitely something to celebrate, I still made several mistakes that cost me potential gains. Reflecting on these mistakes, I realize they were largely driven by a fear of losing money. Read more…
Trading today felt alot better. The realisation what is going wrong has settled largely and I have come to some important conclusions as to why my trading wasn’t going well. Although today resulted in another -1000 loss, it is not something to cry over. Why did my trading suddenly turn Read more…
The scare of having two consecutive days is decreasing and I’m starting to realize I need to get back to how i traded the previous weeks. However, I wasn’t there yet and ended with another loss of -1120 USD today. My win rate is at 40% which shows even more Read more…
Following yesterday’s bad performance, I hoped today would be better. Reality sadly had different plans for me. Due to my impatience to correct yesterday’s mistakes I decided to start trading when I did not have time for it. The image below shows severe over trading, not following my strategy at Read more…
Today was a the first real negative P&L day since starting the XFA. While I started great on the second combine with a + 1000 USD day, I didn’t manage to maintain this when switching to the real account. I traded while preoccupied with other things and while being distracted. Read more…
Today was the 8th day trading on my XFA (funded Topstep account). A number of succesful trades today resulted in a total profit of 4113 USD after commission. This brings the total for the XFA to 9.505 USD after withdrawing 3k. The total profit on the XFA is therefore 12.505 Read more…