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4/22/2019 Preparing for the trading challenge. Think I'm in a good place mentality for it. Got chopped up by $MSCO and lost my gains. Almost got caught in a nasty wash down as well but stopped out before that happened. Kept trying to catch the move down and after two attempts I left it alone. Still working on my sizing, but definitely on the super upside today. Made some great trades, but also cut some off too early. $SQ 4/22/2019 $HAL 4/22/2019 $MDSO 4/22/2019

Monday April 22nd, 2019 Sleep: 7.5 hours. Mood: happy for the long weekend to clear my head. ready to trade. first trade of the day was a ORBD in AMD. i waited for a pullback to the MAs on the 1min chart and got in. got out a minute later on a new 5min high towards the 200 MA on the 1min. it was at about half my stop loss when i got out but since it made a new 5min high i didn't want to stay in the trade. i should have waited to see if it was going to pop and a new 1min low before getting in short. it didn't matter either way, it ended up going higher. GOOD: got out with a small loss. RFI: too early on the entry. MOOD: good, happy to limit my losses. CONSISTENT: yes. last trade of the day was an ABCD in AMD. I wasn't watching when it made a new 5min high at 10:15 so i missed the first push. i got in at the moving average on the 1min chart. i put my stop loss too wide and though i sold at the profit target, i didn't make much money on the trade. i got spooked out of my last 25% on the spinning top to new 5min low. i should have waited to see if the previous day high was going to provide support. GOOD: sold at profit target. got a great entry. RFI: risk level was too large. i was hoping to get in at or around PDC but i should have used that for my stop loss. MOOD: good, happy with trade, otherwise. CONSISTENT: yes. Happy with my trading today. limited my loss on my first trade and my second trade had a great entry. i'm probably a little in the red with commissions but all in all a good trading day. What I did good today: emotional control on both trades was much better than last week. What i did bad today: too wide of a stop loss on my first trade. What can i do better tomorrow: need to adjust your stop by what the market is saying, not what i want it to be. Other comments for tomorrow: Keep working on emotional control and making good trades.

Monday 4/22/2019 I had a well-being score of 5/10 this morning. Nerves were a little on the bad side, mainly due to a double S/O on Thursday. Took one live trade on AAPL. I wasn’t too crazy about much in the premarket, then just before open AAPL reached 120k shares and 0.5% gap which is enough to call AAPL in play for my setups. I was looking at MU and AMD after open as well, but AAPL is the only one that setup. AAPL had a really good “Vish” setup when it broke VWAP, but there were too many TLs near it to take the trade. So I waited for the price to clear the other TLs, but then the trade becomes a “step” setup which normally you have to wait for the finish of the 2min candle, unless there are really strong TLs to break. There were three TLs, a daily TL, 1min candle wick and 50MA all at same price. That was too powerful of a combined level to wait, so I took the trade when it broke all of those 3 levels. What AAPL looked like when I took the trade: 1min chart 5min chart Checklist showed a very strong setup: There we a lot of good TLs to take partials on. The first partial was on the high of premarket. Next was the 203.39 level, then I usually take partials at the half dollar, which I did. Then another partial at the next level at 203.87. At that point I had so few shares left that I exited at the next level $204, which happen to be the peak of the run. Since I got more than one dollar from AAPL I was done for the day. What I did good today: Was able to adapt my setup for what the market gave to me. How did I challenge myself today? Correctly took partials on all the correct levels. A lot of emotions to take or not take the partials since there were so many levels. What I did bad today: Had chart configuration issues again. Just noticed right before opening. I should have checked an hour before. What can I do better tomorrow: I need to keep working on my chart configuration. Unsure why it is not stable. Need to find issue and resolve it quickly.

Glad to hear it. Same thing with me. SIM is really good for testing out strategies, but I never felt that it helps with psychology. I think it teaches me poor discipline. So I shy away from using it.