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Start of my 4th week live on DAS (previous 3+ months live on Etrade-Pro) and journaling on BBT site. Risk: $25/trade Max allowable trades per day: only 1. I am having an over trading issue that I am trying to resolve. So I have a self-imposed limit of one trade per day. But I am allowing myself this week of a second trade if my first trade was a winner. Since I revenge trade, I don't trust myself to trade after a loser. Monday 2/25/19 Well being score of 5.5/10. But very nervous about trading today. My lack of discipline on Friday and the whole weekend to think about has caused my nerves to be an issue. My two allowable trades were with AAPL and KHC. AAPL was a small winner so, without any rule breaks, so I was allowed a second trade. I really like AAPL in the premarket so it was top of my watchlist. I waited for the second 1min candle to finish (not easy for me) and break the tech level (174.66) I drew from premarket. The price did a curtsy at this level so setup was good. I got a great fill and price took off quickly. I took my 1st partial at 1R. I know from the chart below you may wonder why didn't I take a 2nd partial at 2R, but have a look what happen in the middle of the 3rd candle: It actually backtracked to my B/E and I exited. Yes if I gave it 1 cent more leeway it would have reached 2R. But at the moment that is my rule. It may not make sense <5min because you will get S/O often and miss moves. But I am currently unable to handle a winning trade turning into a loser. So I must stop at B/E. The 2min ORB setup checklist: Setup Powerered by Veto Simple The Curtsy Wrong way The Step 2nd 1m Vol B-Bands Mini ABCD 421 VWAP R/R 2-7 to 1 Vish candle DTL break Break VWAP 2m candle Strong 1st >0.5 ATR HiLo break Not on watch-list Englf PM So good setup and good execution allowed me a second trade today. I was watching MU for a 5min ORB, but didn't want to take it since there was a strong tech level it needed to break first. I was feeling quite nervous and really questioning myself since I haven't taken a 5min ORB in many weeks. Due to that I lost discipline and switch my chart to KHC when Andrew says he was looking at it. The large wick in the wrong direction automatically vetoes the trade for my personal setup rules. But I took it with Andrew. I haven't done that since SIM. But luckily the market was kind to me and immediately stopped me out. And I really mean it. Can you imagine if that was a winner and what bad habits that would have started!!! What I did good today: I kept to my 1min 45sec no trade rule. Followed rules on my first trade. How did I challenge myself today? Took a second trade, though nervous about it. Had AAPL on top of my watch-list even though it was not on the watch-list on the morning show. What I did bad today: Followed Andrew on a trade, though it did not satisfy my setup rules. What can I do better tomorrow: Follow rules, better not to take the trade.

February 26, 2019 - $GE (Hit Profit Target) Had a good setup on $GE, I altered my profit taking plan after entering because I knew the $GE was trading within a small range. I was looking to take profit at or below the MA on the 5 min chart. The stock had a quick drop below where I covered some and when it quickly popped back up to which I exited. Sample Set Results P G S G S 6 7 8 S S P G 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20

Tuesday 2/26/2019 Well being score of 6/10. My nerves are still high. I just had two days in a row of breaking my setup rules, so starting not to trust myself. My one allowable trade was with HD. HD looked very good on my setup checklist, but I executed poorly. Lots of momentum power. The price did the curtsy on the TL (Tech Level), 2nd min vol was strong and had a strong place to take my first partial (maybe too strong since it bounced from it). I took the trade as it broke the 184.04 tech level. My stop was the 50 SMA. It spiked back through the 50 SMA (barely) which spooked me, but I really should not have tried to S/O. I had my first hot key mistake in February where I “sold all” instead of cover and thus doubled my position (something E-Trade Pro stops you from doing). In hind sight I should have re-evaluated the trade and see that it never really hit my stop loss point and either stayed in or cut my shares in half. But when it touched the 50 SMA again(but not break through) nstead I panicked and hit “cover all.” I regretted it as I pressed the button. I didn’t miss out on much though, it made it to my first partial and that’s all. But it was poorly executed. I took the correct shares that enables me to wait for a clean break of the 50 SMA, but I dropped the ball. So not very happy. What I did good today: Kept to my setup rules. I kept to my 1min 45sec no trade rule. Entered the trade correctly. Took correct share size. Kept to my 1 trade/day max rule. How did I challenge myself today? Traded outside of AMD/AAPL/MU. Did not even place them on the watch-list or give them a chart. What I did bad today: Did not let the price get to my stop out, which is a clean break of the 50 SMA. Instead I stopped out when price touched it. I consider this a really bad mistake. I use to be quite good with my stop outs. What can I do better tomorrow: Besides to focus on my stop outs, I should also consider not making a trade if the stock has TOO STRONG of a first target. HD had a daily and premarket tech level at the same spot. This might have created a too strong of a TL and thus in reality is my final target. Then my risk/reward ratio is below 2. Thus. I should either not take the trade or go into it assuming it will be a scalp and exit fully if it reaches my target.

February 25, 2019 - $JD (Partial) Had a good setup on $JD, took a Partial and then the stock moved back to the break even point, so I exited in accordance with my profit taking plan. After one more drop and pullback $JD finally moved to the profit target I looking for. Sometimes it works, Sometimes it doesn't Sample Set Results P G S G S 6 7 8 S S P 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20

Hi folks, here is a copy of the playbook template I discussed in the Feb 14 recap. The file is obviously a sample meant for each individual trader to complete with their own strategies, patterns, and setups. https://drive.google.com/a/bearbulltraders.com/file/d/1bmu3XzT_KtzTfya2Fo7Uqc7DZG_N7q-B/view?usp=sharing Please download a local copy as .xlsx

Tuesday February 26th, 2018 Sleep: 7 hours. Mood: ready to trade. first trade of the day was an ORBD on HD. I got a good entry and put my stop above the VWAP. i talked myself out of it and got out right at resistance. GOOD: entry RFI: got cold feet and got out at resistance. MOOD: feeling dumb i bailed at a resistance level. CONSISTENT: no Once HD held the VWAP, i got in short again on a pullback. it finally broke below the $183 level but then got bought above and then it squeezed big time and i got out. GOOD: Got out at my stop loss level RFI: Little bit of a revenge trade and i could have got out earlier MOOD: ok, happy i didn't get killed on the squeeze CONSISTENT: yes Last trade of the day was in M. i broke all my rules on that sell off. got in short on that huge down move and didn't mark a stop loss. then i should have covered at least some at the PDC and PPDH but it happened so fast i missed it. then i held on for a way bigger loss than i needed to take. One of the most frustrating things is KNOWING that i need to wait for a pullback and get a good entry and then doing the exact opposite in the heat of the moment. ah frustrating. GOOD: that i still have auto risk controls for when i do dumb stuff like this trade RFI: no setup, impulse entry with no planned risk. not taking profit at levels. MOOD: frustrated i got caught up in this dumb no setup trade. CONSISTENT: no What i did good today: good discipline on the first two trades. What i did bad today: got caught up in the huge selloff in M What can i do better tomorrow: only trade your setups. don't get caught up in the mania Other comments for tomorrow: Frustrated to hit max loss the day after i hit my target. i'm feeling better about my trading (Macy's notwithstanding) but i still can't seem to get ahead i feel like one and a half steps forward and one step back like i'm treading water. New rule: Try to never rely on the auto risk controls. always get out on your own.

Feb 21st (Sim) P&L After Commissions: ~50 Trades: 3 Today was a tough day to trade. Not a lot of moves and everything was moving fairly slowly in the mid morning. I ended up going 2 for 3 with about $50 in profits after commissions. Face value looks pretty good, but the first trade HTZ I took wasn't pretty. $HTZ - It looked like it was going to be a false breakout to me, even though it was a little early in the day. I took it short when it came back to VWAP. My stop was right above VWAP, but the trade moved so quickly when it popped up that I hesitated on the exit. At that point, I was down about $50 unrealized which was more than I wanted to risk on the trade. It did seem to hold about the $18.70 level and didn't look very strong. It started to come back to VWAP and I'm not sure why, but I added a small size to my position. I originally took 150 shares and added 50 more. This was a dumb add and I shouldn't have done it. The stock popped up one more time and I got out when it came back down to VWAP. I exited at the point where I added to my shares. While my loss wasn't big on this trade, it was not managed well at all. $CVS - Entered short after it bounced off VWAP. Couldn't break the 20EMA on the 1 min and came under the 5 min VWAP. Felt it was a good entry. Took a few minutes in the reverse ABCD and then dropped. I did a pretty good job of waiting for first profit and even holding some in case it continued downward. $FB - I took it short when the price action was weak and it was holding trend lines. Timed the entry very well, but I only covered about half my shares for profit, the rest at slightly past B/E. Can't complain about a green day, but I can complain about not trading as well as I want. The HTZ trade had very poor risk management, it just didn't kill me on the trade which is fortunate. It was a very slow day in the market while I was watching so I only ended up with 3 trades. I am very happy with that and happy that I remained patient even when there was nothing to trade. That is what I am most proud of today.

Feb 20th (Sim) P&L After Commissions: ~25 Trades: 18 Sloppy day today. I took too many trades and jumped into things too quickly. Patience still needs work. 42% win rate and a green day overall, but I am not happy with how I traded. I went 8 for 18 with the majority of the losses coming from trading DVN. I went a little crazy and revenge traded it after it got me for a big loss. Its night and day how I traded DVN vs everything else. $CVS - Broke under the 200 and I went short on the retest of the 200. I probably should have sold more when it dropped down, I held about 40% that I sold near break even. $DVN - This one faked me out and I made a lot of mistakes afterwards with this stock. I thought it was a VWAP break long. My biggest mistake was taking too large of a share size. This stock moved more quickly than I expected it to. I took some profits when it hit $32ish, but I went very small with the profit taking. I need to reevaluate my R/R and profit taking. It dropped on me and I made the mistake of letting it drop on me for multiple minutes before I got out. I should have gotten out at B/E then it made another big drop so I waited to see what it would do there and I'm lucky to get out before it made the 3rd big drop. In about 3 minutes it moved from $32 to touching $31.10. Not a move I felt comfortable with. I do realize that when something makes a huge move against me, if I don't stop out quickly enough, then I hold too long. I can stop out usually just fine when something is a reasonable move that hits my stop. Its when the stock really goes against me that I won't accept the bigger loss right away and I will take the wait and see approach, that is something that needs to be fixed. From there I went short and long and got chopped up 4 more times. Taking $111 loss on the stock on 5 trades. I knew when I was in it that I was revenge trading it, but I just didn't stop. $CVS - Went back long on CVS after it bounced off VWAP and broke above the 50sma. That was my cue to enter and I took it with no hesitations. It looked strong in addition to giving me the right setup. I did try to add on to my position in a pullback, but it didn't really work out and I exited shortly after. I went with 1/3 of my normal size on the pullback. No regrets with the move. $GRMN - This was a very sloppy trade. Everyday I keep a spot open in my notebook for reversals, I had GRMN on there so I guess I was looking for a reversal. I felt it was coming and took a small share size at $82. I added when it broke the 50 even though all the indicators were not there. I wanted the moving averages to cross as well, that is the setup I am looking for. I took it anyway. I was bad here because it clearly went against me and I should have stopped out, but I held. I think it was because it was sim and it wasn't real money and partially because it was not a full size. It started to come back down and I shorted again. Finally giving myself a full size. Sold all at break even. For the second trade I immediately went back in, hoping to catch the reversal. It was premature. I took a full size right away. I knew it wasn't ready, but I didn't want to miss the move. FOMO kicked in. I got in at $82.10, I held through a small pullback and when it broke down the second time, that is when I knew it was the right time and thats when I should have entered. I took a symbolic 1 share to signify that I would have and should have entered here. It was the same price at $82.10 but the setup was what I was looking for in addition to the weak price action. It broke down immediately with no problems. I covered along the way, I saved the majority of my shares for VWAP which was my final target but had to stop out when it was looking stronger. I tried multiple times on GRMN to catch a reversal, but it was the final time where it was just so obvious to me. That is where I should be entering this stock and in all my trades I need to just take what is obvious. Don't reach for anything. If you miss it, you miss it. Often times my best trades are the most obvious ones. I need to have the patience to wait for those. $LUV - This trade was similiar to GRMN for the reason being that the second time I entered, it was just so obvious that this was the trade to take. The first time, I wasn't confident, but I figured it could reverse to VWAP and I didn't want to miss it. It was also on my reversal list. It dropped down right away and I did a terrible job stopping out and took a partial stop out. Very bad first trade. The second trade was the obvious reversal that I was waiting for. I saw it and had no hesitation that this was the right move to take. Went in and sold on the way to VWAP. $AAPL - Again went for the reversal 50SMA break on AAPL. AAPL wasn't on my original watchlist, I replaced DVN with APPL. I decided on AAPL because it was fairly strong in the morning and I thought it would be a good reversal candidate. I was watching solely for the reversal. I took it when it broke the 50SMA instead of waiting for it to retest because it looked extra weak and it was. I didn't take any profits because the goal was VWAP. It cameback to the 50 and bounced off of it. I then decided to take profits since it wasn't going to be as easy of a move as I wanted it to. Tested the 50SMA one more time and I decided that it was time to get rid of the shares and I sold on the way down and when it came back up to the 50 for the 4th time which it broke. Could have been a little more aggressive with the profit taking, but I'm trying to find the balance between quick profit taking and longer term holding. A couple of key takeaways for me today. I need to keep working on my patience. A stock may be looking like its going to make a certain move and maybe it eventually will, but I need to wait for the right entry and the right confirmation. When everything is right, I will see it and it will be obvious. I should only be taking trades when I have the feeling that a certain move is obvious. That means I see it and so does everyone else. A few times today, I entered too early, because I wanted to maximize the entry, when it increased the risk more than I wanted. Second major takeaway, I have to know when I am breaking my rules and stop it. I knew I was revenge trading today. I knew it, I told myself to stop trading. I even deleted DVN off my watchlist. I did end up typing it back into the montage and trading it one more time for my 5th loss. My emotions are hard to control at times, so its best to do everything I can to help mitigate them. I need to walk away when I am revenge trading or if i I lose control emotionally in any way. One other thing that I did not do well today, was I was in 4 trades at the same time at the end of the day. I entered them at different times and I held them for a while, but I shouldn't be in 4 trades at the same time. That is just way to much. It all worked out and I was profitable on all of them, but it isn't the trading style that I want to create. And one more, I went long 7 of 18 trades today. This is much higher than I have been doing before. I attribute this to trading the watchlist and taking what the market is giving vs constantly clicking around and trying to look for and force trades.

Thursday February 7th, 2019 Sleep: 7 hours. Mood: good, ready to trade. First trade of the day was a VWAP L in FEYE. it couldn't make a new 5min low and break the LOTD, i got in on a new 5min high. it engulfed and i held on because i keep getting shaken out of my winning trades early in the day but in this case i should have just got out. took a bigger loss than i should have. GOOD: ok setup, RFI: could have got a better entry. could have limited my losses more. MOOD: frustrated every day this week my first trade has been a loser. CONSISTENT: yes, got out with 1R Next trade was a reversal in GRUB. it came up to the VWAP and made a new 5min low. i got in and got a terrible fill about 30 cents from my entry. then it just rode up on me so fast i got caught like a deer in the headlights. i was lucky to get out with only a $12 loss. the spread was way too much for me to be trading. that was a nightmare. GOOD: got in on a new 5min low RFI: dumb trade, the 15min chart was bullish, and it made a bull flag. this is the same dumb trade i always try right at that time of day that never works but i do it over, over and over again. MOOD: scared, frustrated. CONSISTENT: no this thing went way way past my stop before i got out. Last trade of the day was an engulfing Bull flag in STI. i was hoping for a new 15min high and for it to strart coming back up. The plan was to wait for it to get close to the $63.67 level and then get in long. i looked away from the computer for a minute and saw i missed my entry and it bought back up over the MA on the 1min chart so i FOMO'd my entry a little bit. then it just made new 5 and 15min lows for as long as i watched it. I was just straight up wrong about that trade. the entire trend was down and it would have been a much smarter move to get in on the short side on a new 5min low. i don't know what's wrong with me today. it was a bad day of trading. GOOD: risk level was appropriate RFI: completely wrong idea. MOOD: beat down. frustrated. CONSISTENT: yes, got out at my stop. What i did good today: quit trading. What i did bad today: garbage setups, not getting out at P/A, letting the price run past my stops. What can i do better tomorrow: you have to stop taking dumb reversals at the VWAP. Other comments for tomorrow: sucks to hit max loss and then be down for the week. need to regroup for tomorrow and finish out the week strong. i'm thinking about going back in to SIM for a while. my winning days are $10-$12 and my losing days are max loss $30 consistently and my equity curve is a 45 degree slope down. i'm going to trade live tomorrow then think about it over the weekend but i really need to work on getting back to having winning days.

Wednesday February 6th, 2019 Sleep: 7.5 hours. Mood: good, ready to trade. First trade was an ORBU in MU. i put my stop too high and held it for a new 5min low and got stopped out. I am frustrated that i chased this a little bit and the R/R was not good. also getting real tired of my first trade not working everyday. GOOD: got out on a new 5min low RFI: bad R/R bad stop loss. not a good trade. MOOD: frustrated CONSISTENT: not really, i should have got out at my original stop, i took a 1.7 R loss on this trade. Then it held the WVAP and i got in long on a new 5min high then added to my position at break of HOTD. sold half at my profit target. the second half i bailed when it made a new 5min high but the volume died so i got all out. happy with these two trades. GOOD: added more on a winner, good initial R/R RFI: could have scaled out better above profit target. MOOD: happy to have a green day. CONSISTENT: yes. What i did good today: scaled in nicely on the second trade for a winner. What i did bad today: took too much of a loss on my ORBU What can i do better tomorrow: Respect your original stop, even if it wasn't a good idea to begin with, better to get out with 1R and make more trades then hold on and take 2R or worse. also, don't chase trades, especially in the first 15 minutes. Other comments for tomorrow: keep up the good trading, try not to make your first trade a loss tomorrow.

Tuesday February 5th, 2019 Sleep: 8 hours. Mood: good, ready to trade. first trade of the day was an ORBU in SQ. had my stop at VWAP and i got stopped out. i should have held on longer than i did maybe, but it did touch my stop. i think next time I need to give it to below support not right at it. i didn't get stopped out for much though. the market shook the crap out of my weak hand. My nerves rocked me on that one. GOOD: got out at planned stop RFI: got out too soon. even though it was my stop MOOD: frustrated that every day my first trade is a loss CONSISTENT: yes. Next two trades were in CRON. i got in long above the PPDH support on a new 5min high. i went to sell and at around $22.60 but my montage wasn't highlighted and my hotkey didn't work so i waited for it to come back up but it kept falling and then made a new 5min low so i bailed for a small profit/breakeven. GOOD: waited for confirmation to get in. decent R/R RFI: didn't take profits when given the chance. MOOD: frustrated that i got out with a small winner but i've learned from other trades that if it's making a new 5min low, it's better just to get out of the way. CONSISTENT: yes. Then it came back up and made a new 5min high, i saw a good R/R with the MA on the 5min charts so i hopped back in. sold half at the break of the HOTD and then the last half at the even $23. happy with this trade. GOOD: didn't let my emotions from the previous trade stop me from hoping back in on this one. RFI: could of held the first piece for better selling. MOOD: good. happy to be green to start the week CONSISTENT: yes. What i did good today: didn't let my previous trade in CRON effect me and got in for a good winner. What i did bad today: put my stop too tight on SQ and got stopped out of a winner. What can i do better tomorrow: put my stops below the support, not right on it. give it a second when it hits the stop, i might get a bounce. Other comments for tomorrow: keep up the good trading tomorrow.