Slogging thru the micro-mess

It’s so tempting to put a bunch of money on the site, and then trade it up with mini’s.

It seems like micros are just burning money with commissions. But I need to prove trust in my system.

I need to build a system. And the longer I go without re-depositing, I’ll have plugged the financial leak in the boat that has been my attempt to trade.

That’s the biggest one, space and time for mistakes. And I’ve made a ton of them. And am still making them. Mostly of the “not patient enough to wait for more signs of a turn-around”, attempting to bottom pick, over-leverage, adding when not ahead or no edge is visible and just emotions taking over and adding a bunch then puking.

Even through today was a good day. My yesterdays are worse than the good days currently. And today I sold too early on a good trade I could have held to target.

I’m basically scared of a V shape when I need to be okay with that happening to hold trades for longer (or maybe one move of stop?). Bad longs were a response to covering action, but not buying action.

Almost like with my entries, if I want to get long, I need to see the confirmation and then try to get filled 1 pt or so below, that the structure is better to get setup into. Too much market bleeds via trades I can’t scratch except for losses once I see the trade isn’t working.

I took 3 losing trades in 4 minutes. That’s a leak.

Trades that were good today (blue lines):