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11/14/25

Today I missed the setup I was waiting for all week, because i overslept. I was still able to spot two continuation moves after that though. The first move was after we respected a 3m gap while making a lower low then higher high whited formed a breaker. Since I entered off of the closure my entry was a bit high and I couldn't have a wide stop, so I ended up getting stopped out. The second move happened after we made a lower low into a gap then formed a higher high with my tp at the inversion. Price was moving in my direction and since I was already down I moved my stop to break even on the day at 300, then it hit my tp. Both trades hit tp after stopping me out, so my goal for next week is to set and forget and only move my stop to break even when I'm equal risk in profit or when price provides another proceed point. Overall small week, Mostly just took base hits, but we need to be either hitting break even, stopped out or full tp. No more exiting early unless I don't trust the trade at all/given a reason to(like SMT) Also finish backtesting tonight.

GOALS FOR NEXT WEEK:

BE PATIENT. IF THE SETUP ISNT THERE BE OKAY WITH IT LEAVING WITHOUT YOU

EXECUTE AS CLOSE TO perfection AS POSSIBLE EVEN IF IT RESULTS IN A LOSS

DO NOT MOVE MY STOP TO 150 UNLESS GIVEN A REASON TOO

MAX 2 TRADES

11/17/25

With it being Monday, I technically dont have a bias but there were a lot of bearish signs especially after tapping into a daily gap and taking fridays high. Market open we sweep out some lows and make a breaker block and fvg with strong bullish momentum so i got in off of the second 5m candle after it dipped and went back up to make the gap. Target was way higher than it needed to be so i ended up closing out with around 1:1.5rr but it hit 2rr before that.

11/18/25

I GOT MY FIRST PAYOUT. It honestly feels surreal and im extremely grateful to even be in a position like this. I know its only the beginning and I know how far this could take me if i continue to lock in and always keep my edge, stay disciplined, and always try my best to be atleast 1 percent better everyday. LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

11/19/25

Bias for today was bearish, but we had a lot of bullish confluences. On open we made a lower low higher high after tapping into a 30m and 5m gap respecting it creating a protected swing along with a breaker block. We also had daily smt to the upside with ES. I took my entry off the inversion + creation of a fvg to take it to London 0/25highs. I was planning to hold so that it hit the highs on ES as well but i left my tp at london on NQ and it completely smashed tp to take daily high. I did feel a bit of FOMO from it, but at the end of the day we still hit our target.

11/20/25

Bias for today is bullish. We had a lot of resting lows to take and London low was still there, so I was thinking we take those then go up to the daily gap. I ended up getting in early, then revenge trading just to try and get the combine over with.... which resulted in me blowing it up and having to start over. We then manipulated those highs into the daily gap, inverted a 5m gap on es and made another gap as well as a bearish breaker block. I took that trade to the low of the range but my main target was London low(I was on a combine so I maxed out 1500)

I NEVER want to do that again, all of my ideas for the direction hit, but I refused to take that loss and be patient until the next/actual setup. PATIENCE IS KEY, DONT FOCUS ON MONEY FOCUS ON GOOD SETUPS.

11//24/25

There was no real bias, but coming into today we have SMT + Manipulation so i was looking for longs. On open we went straight up, so i waited for some type of retracement and we got that in the form of a 5m fvg that we closed out of on the second green candle. I took my entry there just targeting two rr but I wanted to try letting it run. I had my combine following so i just took my base 2rr hit, and it wouldve came back to stop me at break even if i left it aswell.

11/25/25

No bias for today, but we had daily smt to the downside so I was looking for shorts. On open we close out of a 5m gap after the second candle but we swept london low right before that so i wasnt too confident on that close. It then dumped into a 4h/1h gap and we saw some rejection with no clear entry yet. Price then started consolidating, so i waited for the low to be taken then push up which it did on my first trade but i got stopped at BE. Still looking for something else i waited until the consolidation was over, where we had SMT to the upside so I waited for the push up and close above the downclose candles, entered and got stopped out pretty quick.

11/26/25

Bias today was bearish. I saw a decent pre market set up that ended up stopping me out twice right before it moved immediately into my direction, the issue was having my stop too tight. We had a good reaction off an order block which made a propulsion block after manipulating asia low so i got in but got barely stopped out then it went in my favor. The same thing happened on my main, but I cant quite remember exactly what i took. I need to start journaling immediately after i trade, that way i dont forget. Or I can alwys screenshot my trades after i take them.

12/01/25

No bias today.

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First trade was off of the sweep of these failure swings to the left but there was still more liquidity to take so I ended up getting stopd out after entering on the cisd/ breaker block formation with SMT to go along. Switched to the combine after that loss, then we reswept more lows on nq still leaving an SMT so I got in on the momentum to make a breaker but the candle didnt fully close yet. Moved my stop to BE and it got hit right before going straight back up to hit TP. I also saw a 1m gap +ob continuation move that ended up stopping me out because my stop was too tight, but it also hit TP. My last trade for the day was off the reaction of a breaker/fvg that was in discount which hit 2 rr, there was great bullish momentum. I did slightly overtrade on the combine, so now were scaling down until back in profits.

OVERALL loss on the day, but we had HTF alignment with the 4h candle 2 to then have good expansion on the c3 open, but we retraced pretty deep so im not sure how far itll go. All of the trades except the first one ended up hitting tp, and I didnt feel any FOMO waited for the setups to form and either took the loss to the chin or the dub. PNL LOSS BUT MENTAL AND STRATEGY W. WE FOLLOWED THE PLAN EXACTLY.

12/02/25

No real bias today, but we had 2am manipulation into 8/10am continuation or distribution. We were starting to accumulate, so on open i was looking for the opposing run to stop hunt then at least take out daily high to either reverse or continue expanding to the rest of the 4h highs. There was a good 4h candle to support expansion as well as a good 1D candle to inverse that gap as well.

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12/5/25

Coming into today I was really focused on taking shorts to daily low/asia low. I was up late last night and took some asia trades that i ended up losing on and lost on both my trades during NY. On open there was a decent fvg setup but I just let it fly without me then waited for the pull back. I ended up taking a fvg/breaker block entry after respecting the 1h breaker/ fvg and closing back inside the range forming a c2 closure where i looked to get in. This was in alignment with the 30m/15m/1h as well as hitting our OTE levels and forming that protected swing. Overall a pretty terrible week in terms of PNL.

12/8/25

Coming in to today there was no real bias, but I was favoring longs into the daily gap or a sweep of Fridays high. On open we swept out session lows and created a breaker block, which was exactly what i was looking for but ended up getting stopped at break even. We then ended up dumping after just barely not taking out any of my bullish targets, so i started looking for short opportunities to the range low. I saw a 1m breaker get formed as well as a 1h bearish breaker then looked for a CISD on the lower timeframe, but I didn't end up taking it because price looked like it was about to consolidate and we had SMT to go up. That (wouldve been) trade wouldve ended up smashing tp. Then I ended up taking another contunation entry off of a fvg, order/propulsion block in the midway point of the range and also got stopped at break even. I've noticed that usually my first or third trade ideas end up hitting most of the time, so I might have to start going with my first setups i was thinking about taking and if i miss it then take the next CLEAR setup, no bs trades.

12/9/25

Original bias was bearish to go and hit the daily low, since we were already trading away from the high that London put in. We still had both session highs to take and daily high, so after LOD got taken i looked for a CISD on the lower timeframe combined with a c2 on the 1h and a c2 on the 4h. We got both of those aswell as a breaker block formed + SMT then I entered off of the 3m CISD, which i ended up getting stopped out before the move hit 2rr.

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12/10/25

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Today my bias was bullish until proven otherwise. On open we swept out the daily low on ES but not on NQ forming an SMT, so I put a positional entry for the formation of a 5m breaker with my stop at the end of the breaker which ended up not even forming and i got stopped out. I shouldve waited to see how it would react off of the 15m/5m bearish gap. I waited for another setup with my bias still being bullish and there ended up being a good play after forming a good c2 and catching the bottom wick forming of the next 1h candle for expansion. We reswept our opening low/daily low then inversed two 3m gaps and a 5m gap so I entered with my stop slightly below equilibrium of the gap/breaker. We took out some highs and made a protected swing so i moved my stop to the base of the candle and the price retraced down to my invalidation and i got out break even on the day, with news coming out later that day so i didnt want to risk my profits if we decided to range until then. It never took out the low and went to hit 2rr after that little consolidation.

12/12/25

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