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Thursday April 11th, 2019 Sleep: 7.5 hours. Mood: good, ready to trade. Only took one trade today, an engulfing crack on WTW. i waited for a pullback to the VWAP to get in risking the 19.01 level to the LOTD. I was so volatile in that minute and i got a bad fill. The risk was too far away to begin with but i was trying to risk 20 cents and ended up risking 30 cents messed up my R/R pretty bad. Selling was good and according to my plan. if i'm nitpicking, i should have wait to sell my first half until it broke lower. GOOD: good plan RFI: sold too early MOOD: more comfortable in the trade than earlier in the week. CONSISTENT: yes. What i did good today: took only good trades. What i did bad today: selling too early What can i do better tomorrow: sell less earlier

April 11, 2019 - $AMD (Partial + 1) Took a 15 min ORBD on $AMD. I got a partial, and took another half out near the profit target. I exited when the stock came back to my first out. Overall I was satisfied with my execution of the trade. Sample Set Results P G S P E S P P 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20

After losing out many times after my last post, I stopped my journal. I felt embarrassed making the same mistakes over and over. Also, felt like I wasn't getting anywhere and only trading just because. Trading was not feeling fun and began to get frustrating so I had to take a step back. Nothing I was doing had a strategy to it. I traded patterns, but didn't have a consistent strategy to stick to. I'm still figuring that out, but also working on my mental. My patience is HUGE and is helping me not take everything I see without really really really talking to myself before hitting the keys. In the background, I've changed some things that so far seem to be working. I realized a lot of my trades had similar blunders and involved early entries. Some of them also were because of being short biased and trading opposite of the trend. I'm seeing things differently and a lot more clear on both the short/long side. My short bias is beginning to fade as I hammer down on the strategies I've been using. I'm using tradingsim to retrace my mistakes and it's helping me back test my strategy and find out what works/doesn't. I'm seeing myself develop as a moving average trader. I see these moves easily on both the long/short side and I feel comfortable taking these. The crazy part is, I feel comfortable taking these trades even when I lose because I know the trade works. As of writing, the previous 3 days I've been green realized. Gonna keep banging it out and eventually increase my sizing. Working on finding good places to stop out if the trades don't work out. Below are a few trades I've done that have worked and didn't. Some of my entries are still too early, but will work on finding a common ground in the tradingsim when I back test some more. $ICPT 4/11/2019 $WTW 4/11/2019 $X 4/11/2019 $ROKU 4/10/2019 $HUYA 4/10/2019 $DAL 4/10/2019 $CERN 4/09/2019 $ROKU 4/09/2019 $X 4/09/2019 $ZGNX 4/09/2019 $ROKU 4/04/2019 $VFF 4/11/2019

Thursday 4/11/2019 My 1 year anniversary joining BBT!!! I had a well-being score of 4.5/10 this morning. But I made a decision to trade full size today again. Nerves still bad. I took one live trade today with MU . Again, like yesterday, I was staring at AAPL, TSLA and AMD since they were really setting up in the premarket, but again MU was the one with the setup. It was a nice “simple” 2min ORB setup. It had a nice small candle body with really good levels above it. It did a reasonably sized pull back and I went long. What made me nervous is the order flow seem to just stop right after I took the trade. It took over 30 seconds before the time/sales started moving again. I took my first partial (bad fill) at the HOTD (excluding PM) but it took about 90 seconds to get there, so my finger was on the sell-all button the whole time since I thought I would be S/O at any moment. Usually the 2min ORBs you reach your first target or get S/O in 30 seconds or less. Then I took my second partial just below the 42.43 TL. Then it just missed my 3rd partial (high of PM) by 1c. Then it bounced off the 42.43 TL 3 times which I use as an indicator for a reversal. I was about to exit out, but the 1min chart looked so bullish that at the 4th bounce I decided to take another partial and leave 20% of my shares. Which was good since it never reached my third partial target and reversed so fast I had some slippage on my B/E S/O. The forming 2min candle when I took the trade: Checklist: Then MU was creating a nice engulfing, but I needed to step away from the platform to “reset” my brain. When I got back setup was gone. But that is OK I really wanted to try trading SIM and see if there are any issues on the platform. I decided to count the mouse clicks needed to change my platform to Demo using the so called “no failure” way. It was 65 mouse clicks!!! And took a couple of minutes. Wow! Any way I then took three SIM trades without issue. I won’t add them to my journal except to mention they were all small winners (made it to 1st partial then retraced to B/E where I exited). I know they were SIM trades but I can’t remember ever taking 4 trades (Live or SIM) in one day and they all were winners. A good way to celebrate my 1 year anniversary! What I did good today: Didn’t get too caught up in premarket bias. Switched away from my primary watch-list when they weren’t setting up. How did I challenge myself today? Took a partial just because it felt like stock will reverse. What I did bad today: A little upset I missed my S/O a few cents. What can I do better tomorrow: Still need to work on my nerves. They are bad about 80% of the time. I can’t keep trading like this.

Wednesday 4/10/2019 I had a well-being score of 4.5/10 this morning. But I made a decision to trade full size today. Too many days on SIM and half shares. Nerves on the bad side. I took one trade today with MU . AAPL, TSLA and AMD were the stocks really setting up in the premarket, but 9:32am arrived and I still saw no 2min ORB setup. Then MU formed a mini ABCD setup. MU bounced nicely off of VWAP twice. I went long on the second VWAP bounce with 41.83 as my S/O and 42.12 as my target and 42.00 as my first partial. I got a bad fill which dropped my R/R to slightly below 2 (~1.8) but I thought good enough to hang on plus trade immediately went into my favor. I was concerned that my first partial level was too strong as a TL that it may not punch through. That has happen to me before and it looked like it was about to happen again as the price bounced hard off the 42.00 and moved back down to within 1c of my B/E where I almost S/O. But an instant later it moved higher. That near S/O got me nervous and I took another partial though it was not at any TL. Then it reached my target where I took a partial. I got a bad fill on my last partial and the stock started heading down where I exited completely at B/E. When I took the trade: After that trade, I took a few minutes break from the platform. When I came back I didn’t seen anything setting up well except MU again as a short. But I wasn’t very convinced so I decided to take it as a SIM trade. I switched my platform to SIM and I was surprised it took a live trade. After I worked with DAS support, I have taken a few SIM trades without issue. But, apparently there is still an issue. I immediately got out of the trade and started a long chat with DAS support. After a long chat and two uploaded videos I am left still in doubt of the platform. Tech support thinks that since one of my 4 montages did not have the “global” clicked caused the live trade. But I did not use that montage for the trade. After clicking the “global” I tried it a few times and got a live trade again! But, when I manually switch over every montage, one by one, even though I will not use the montage for the trade, the SIM seems to work, But that is almost 50 mouse clicks to safely switch from Live to Demo. Besides being painful, in case I make a mistake with one of those clicks, I am back in a live trade again. DAS tech support said I should make some videos and email it to the developers. I guess it is possible my layout is unusual enough to cause some issues. What I did good today: Waited for the setup, didn’t force a trade just because the time was 9:32. How did I challenge myself today? Finally took full shares in a trade. It’s been awhile. I didn’t want to lose my nerve. What I did bad today: Took early partials. What can I do better tomorrow: Need to control my nerves on the partials.

April 9, 2019 - $AMD (Stopped out) April 10, 2019 - $AMD (Partial) Missed posting yesterday as I had some unexpected traveling occur. Below are the past two days trades. Overall I was happy with the trading; however, today I missed an entry on $DAL (15 min ORBD), because I worried too much about being wrong instead of just trading the setup. Still working on that issue. Sample Set Results P G S P E S P 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20