Daily Logs

No trades on the 2K tick chart today. During this session I became sure about giving the 5-minute chart a real try, and it’s clear that it can’t be done simultaneously whil...

Got to trade the open for once. The market was very sideways in the beginning, but then we got some news—probably tariff-related—and the market took a nosedive, dropping ab...

Another day with decent price action. It was a weak uptrend with not many setups, then consolidated into a small range for the rest of the session—overall not an easy struc...

The day started with a downtrend when I got to the chart. The channel broke, but the downtrend did not get a retest and instead reversed upward. There were not many setups...

The day started with a nice-looking downtrend. Not long after I began trading it broke the big downtrend channel, and I was expecting a correction and then an attempt at a...

I started late because of my day job, but when I got to the chart there was a very consistent trading range, almost between the ONL and ONH. I missed a few nice trades in t...

There was no momentum left in the market, and it stalled. A doji formed, and it did not look good. I hate monkeying with trades, so I left it, even though it was a great ch...

The day started as a downtrend, and when I got to the chart the wider downtrend needed a new low. No setups that I liked formed on the way down. After two measured legs dow...

The day started as a nice uptrend, and when prices got back to the EMA and trendline I took a chance on a HL after a visual 2EL on my second EOD chart. The uptrend channel...

The day started as a big trading range, with big moves up and big moves down. There was a lot of movement and pretty predictable price action, but there were not many setup...

I got to the chart a bit late again, and there had been a nice downtrend in the overnight and early session. By the time I got to the chart, prices had transitioned into a...

I got to the chart planning for a quick session before heading to a concert. The market was in a range-like structure, but it was slow and did not offer any setups before I...

The day itself was in a range structure, with two legs up and two legs down. Context was pretty easy, but once again there were no clean setups even when the context was cl...

Overnight had a steep spike up, then shifted into a very choppy, tight range. When I got to the chart, price attempted an upside breakout and I was hoping we could get an u...

Overall structure was pretty weird. It followed the usual cycles, but there were lots of V-shaped reversals, which made it hard to get entries even though the short-term co...

Market was range-bound most of the session. There was a decent downtrend in the overnight and early morning, but I missed that—and looking back, it didn’t offer much I want...

The day once again started as a trading range. Volume was very low and price was painfully slow for the 4th day in a row. I can go a few days without trades, but when it’s...

Started very late since I had things to take care of at work. The market was really slow and choppy all morning and didn’t produce much. Structure was a trading range with...

When I got to the chart, price was in a range-like structure. There were a few opportunities early on that I missed, but nothing spectacular. My plan for the day was to be...

Overnight formed a trading range between ONH and ONL. Price then broke below ONL and developed a downtrend. I didn’t see a clean way to get in. As price kept pushing lower,...

Overnight formed a downtrend that kept working lower into the start of the session. I got to the chart just before the channel broke and was looking for shorts, expecting a...

Overnight made two legs up, then the morning session traded down, effectively shaping a trading range. Price broke the downtrend channel and made a new low. After that, it...

I got to the chart about an hour after the open. The market was in a range with a bearish imbalance, hovering around the Overnight Low (ONL) for a long time. It wasn’t clea...

Got to the chart about an hour after the market opened, and it had already started a nice downtrend heading toward the Overnight Low (ONL). In hindsight, I didn’t see many...

I started about an hour after the market opened today, since I’m now back at my day job. The market had been trending down strongly in the morning with very few pullbacks t...

Prices made one leg down during the overnight session, and after the open, we got the second leg down. After that, the market formed some kind of wider range, but with a be...

We were in a range from the open, with prices moving up and down inside an 11-point zone. After a strong move to the top of the range, there was a sharp leg down. I didn’t...

There was an overnight spike down that formed a new low around the open. After that, price went into a small trading range and stayed there for quite a while. There was som...

The day began with a clear trading range structure, but after price broke out of the Overnight Highs a couple of times, a bullish imbalance became obvious. It slowly develo...

arly in the session, there was a lower high (LH) that confirmed a second entry short (2ES), not long after the open. The setup looked great and lined up well, but the signa...

The entire day has been one long, painfully slow grinding trend to the upside. The uptrend started off weak, with price chopping above and below the 21 EMA, making it hard...

The day started with two legs up during the overnight session. After the open, the market reversed and broke below the overnight lows, kicking off a new downtrend. I was de...

The day started with two legs down in the overnight session. However, prices failed to break through the overnight low, and we saw a reversal into what eventually developed...

The day started with a nice, steep uptrend that looked really promising. It began to develop into a potential spike-and-channel structure, but prices soon started consolida...

A difficult day. After the long weekend, I was eager to get back on the charts and fully committed to taking the first quality setup that appeared. Unfortunately, it turned...

Summer price action is definitely here. The day unfolded within a ranging structure, but the overall price action was tough to read. Many short-term channels had overshoots...

Another very slow day with a grinding uptrend. The market had low volume, which likely explains the lack of real momentum throughout the session. I took two trades today. T...

Today was a tricky session right from the start. The price action was slow and a bit messy, and it wasn’t immediately clear what kind of structure we were working with. The...

Today was an FOMC statement day, and the market behaved pretty much as expected. Leading up to the release, things got extremely slow—no real movement, and definitely not m...

Today was rollover day, and that really showed in the price action. The session began with a strong spike and channel pattern that initially looked promising—there was a cl...

Another difficult day with very few clean setups. There were some more aggressive entries, but I’ve been focusing on the highest-probability trades — and those just haven’t...

Very strange market structure today—there were multiple spike-and-channel patterns, lots of overshoots, and price action just didn’t seem to follow the usual rules. It made...

Another day without trades. Unlike earlier in the week, today I didn’t even see any setups I liked in hindsight. Price action felt uncertain, and nothing lined up clearly e...

The day started as a broad range day — very slow, and I didn’t spot many setups in real time. There was one Higher Low setup that I only recognized after the fact. It confi...

Not an eventful day. It was slow and choppy by the time I got on the chart, although the start of the session looked a bit better. I didn’t see many trades I felt confident...

A few years ago I was sure I would never swing trade. I really liked the idea of scalping — quick in, quick out — and spending less time in the market to avoid fakeouts. Bu...

When I got to the charts there was a big downtrend going, but soon after the channel broke and formed a steep uptrend. The bigger downtrend could already be drawn with a br...

Another day with decent price action. Even though I did not take any trades on my PA accounts, I find these new Tradify evals a bit distracting. I originally thought they w...

Another difficult day. It seems the more experience I get in reading the price and context, the harder it becomes to trust my own read. I did not trust anything enough toda...

The day started with a strong leg up, probably news-driven. When I got to the chart prices had just made a new high of that leg. It was likely to expect another leg going u...

The day was pretty choppy. Over the weekend I got myself five new Tradify accounts, and the plan was to trade them a bit aggressive to try and pass them quickly. But the ma...

The day was pretty weird. At points the price action looked completely random, with overshoots and channels that never made new extremes. Looking at the 10K chart the struc...

I started late because of work, but when I got to the chart there was a nice downtrend going. Overall it was a good day price action-wise, with easy-to-read context and a f...

The overnight session had a spike up and a try for a retest but did not fully make a new high. Prices then reversed down, and we got two legs down as the downtrend played o...

The day started out looking like a trading range. The market made a leg down, broke the ONL, and then another leg formed. I drew a secondary channel that fit really well. A...

I got to the chart late due to some tech problems with the NinjaTrader platform, but I did not miss much. The market was super slow and choppy. It was rollover day, so that...

When I got to the charts there was a nice uptrend going, and soon after a clean 2EL and F2ES formed right at the 21 EMA and the trendline on my chart. I jumped in and it wo...

It was another slow day. The overnight price action had a strange shape, but it looked like two legs down and that prices were about to reverse when I got to the chart. It...

Overnight traded in a range and was just about to break out when I got to the chart. It started to look like we could get an uptrend going, so I drew a spike-and-channel to...

Price had a steep spike during the overnight session. The downtrend played out with a new low, but it still looked bearish, so I drew a spike-and-channel and kept an eye on...

We had a slow, weak uptrend that kept chopping higher. A few setups showed up, but it was the usual trade-off: either good-looking setups in poor context, or great context...

Another brutally slow, choppy day. Structure was range-like with a slight bullish bias. At times it looked like a very weak uptrend was forming, but I had to keep moving th...

Got to the chart a bit late. Price had been rallying all morning—likely off Jackson Hole / Trump headlines—but I didn’t see many clean ways to get on board. By the time I s...

Prices formed a downtrend after the open, but there weren’t many setups I liked. The downtrend played out and reversed. After the first leg up, a HL formed — I skipped it....

ot to the chart a bit late after work. RTH had been in a range most of the session with a slight bearish imbalance. After one more push down failed to continue, price moved...

The day started with an overnight spike down, then price rallied into an uptrend with a few nice entries. I hadn’t started trading yet, and by the time I got to the chart t...

The day started like a trading range, but price broke out above the ONH and an uptrend formed. The trend looked strong at first with the EMA holding, but the push phases go...

Started late again. The market had already been trending strongly upward during the overnight and morning sessions. When I got to the chart, price was breaking the uptrend...

Got a very late start today since I was stuck at work. The market began the session in a range, but eventually broke out above the Overnight High (ONH) and started forming...

I started about an hour after the market opened today, since I’m now back at my day job. The market had been trending up strongly during the morning session, but it didn’t...

It was a big bearish day. The market trended lower with an initial leg down, followed by a retest of the channel, then a second leg lower — and eventually even a third meas...

The day started once again with very little overnight price action. There was an uptrend continuing from yesterday and through the night. After the open, the market started...

The overnight session had a sharp spike up followed by a spike down. After the market opened, it settled into a very tight 7-point range. Price moved up and down through th...

Today was a strange and tricky day. The market structure was hard to read and didn’t offer many clear opportunities. On the 10K chart, the session eventually formed what lo...

The day was marked by a slow, downward drift for most of the session. It wasn’t an easy environment to find clean setups either—price action stayed sluggish and lacked stro...

The day initially looked like it might shape up to be a range day. Price action began consolidating into a tight sideways range shortly after the open, offering very few cl...

nother slow, grinding uptrend—classic stair-step structure. Small pushes up followed by sideways movement, then another small push higher. The market just kept chopping alo...

The pre-market action showed two legs up followed by a single leg down, hinting at the possibility of another leg down and a developing trading range structure. However, af...

Today, price spent nearly the entire session inside the Overnight High (ONH) and Overnight Low (ONL), forming a wide range. However, this range didn’t have well-defined sup...

The day started with a clear downtrend structure, and for quite some time, it looked like the broader downtrend would push for a new low. But when that never materialized,...

The day started with an overnight spike, but the market reversed early and developed into a downtrend. The structure was decent at times, and there were a few mediocre setu...

Starting to become a bad habit now—another tradeless day. Every day I sit down at the computer and tell myself, “Today, you have to execute if something shows up that’s wor...

Another tradeless day today. The market was extremely slow by the time I got on the charts, and nothing worthwhile set up after that. What’s especially frustrating is that...

Today was a slow day due to the contract rollover, which brought low volume and choppy price action. Early on, the market looked like it was trending upward, but it eventua...

I didn’t have much time to trade today, but I managed to squeeze in a short session before heading out to a concert. The structure was more clear than it has been on most r...

It was a rangy day overall, with a strong sell-off toward the end. The price action was difficult to read in real time—nothing looked clean or obvious. Looking back, the st...

Very low volume and extremely slow-paced day. It started off looking like a trading range with a slight bullish imbalance, but eventually developed into a weak trend. Howev...

No trades taken today. The market spent most of the day in a range, with a slight bearish bias toward the end. I found it difficult to commit to any setups. There was one v...

Another slow and difficult day for me. The market moved in a slow, crawling uptrend with very few clear setups. I find it hard to trust mediocre entries in strong, slow tre...