That day started with two stacked bars. When bar 3 showed up, I entered long expecting we could fill the overnight gap and potentially continue in the range from the overnight session. But as I entered, the market reversed and I tried to get out at BE and it worked out.

I failed to see that this was now actually forming a H2 Buy, so I probably should have stayed long.

When bar 6 formed a bull breakout bar I entered long again. I was aiming for +10 pts. on my first contract and +20 pts. on my 2nd. Price made a deep pullback but finally hit my first target of +10 pts. When price started to pull back again, I took my 2nd contract off at +5 pts. I was not eager to sit through another pullback. Price would have hit my target of +20 pts. a bit later.

Price formed a wedge top and the bulls had made two legs up, so I was looking for a potential MTR. We got a nice bear breakout bar after a HL double top, so I entered short. Just as yesterday, the market looked like it was forming a reversal, but instead it just chopped sideways for a long time.

I got +5 pts. on one of my contracts, but closed the two other at BE since it got very sideways and I did not trust the trade anymore. Pretty frustrating, so I took my dinner break.

While I was on my break the bears did finally break out like I was expecting, so I missed the move of the day. But at least my read on the price action was correct.

Price did not quite get to the current day low, and the bear channel looked tight. So when we got a 2ES / BOPB at the breakout area of the range I took the short, expecting a retest of the lows. The signal bar was not great, but I took a chance. We did get a pretty strong pullback.
I took the trade off at -15 pts. loss. I should probably have closed it earlier, but it really looked like a good case for the bears. Moving on to the next trade.

I closed my trade and just as I did, the market reversed down and formed a bear bar. If that showed up a bit earlier I would have held the trade.

But when another bear bar formed a breakout out of the range and closed below the EMA, I entered short again, aiming for the previous lows.

Again price stalled and I took it off at BE. What a terrible trading day—no trades get any kind of follow-through and the market just chops around. Very frustrating. I closed my chart after this.