Technicals: This is actually the merger of two trades taken back to back with virtually the same entries. I exited the first one as I thought the move was coming back down and promptly re-entered a tick lower.Same as yesterday, I waited all day to pick up that long as I was not feeling like trading at WTI open and felt it was treacherous. I had identified the zone in the chart where we were likely to find support and corroborated with my Sierra chart (See below)
I entered L2 at 81.44 and exited and then re-entered 81.43. The trade went my way and I made the mistake to put my stop at scratch and got stopped out incurring a small loss of $60
Outcome: The loss is not so much the $60 that I so desperately try to protect but the $670 I did not make had I followed my first trade set-up as seen below. It is also the loss of $650 I suffered on the next trade trying to get back in having do frustratingly watch MY trade go without me.
Post mortem: I really need to trust my process and let go of the outcome. My micromanagement is killing my setup. Moving my stop until my first target has been reached is absolutely a NO NO.
Execution detail:
Date/time | Symbol | Side | Price | Position |
---|---|---|---|---|
2022-11-17 17:32:32 | CLF3 | buy | $81.44 | long |
2022-11-17 17:45:20 | CLF3 | sell | $81.45 | 0 |
2022-11-17 17:48:01 | CLF3 | buy | $81.43 | long |
2022-11-17 17:52:51 | CLF3 | sell | $81.39 | long |
2022-11-17 17:52:51 | CLF3 | sell | $81.39 | 0 |
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