May 7 through 10
I observed a valuable lesson this week. Just like in life, to do something well you must be focused on it and can not just do it to do it. In trading this can have some serious consequences. For the past four days, I have been forcing trading. By this I mean, I had time to conduct my pre-market routine and trade the open, but my post market routine and reviews I could not get done, because of the enormous amounts of other things in my life going. The overwhelming feeling of being over tasked definitely slipped into my trading this week and I am just glad I was able to maintain my discipline with risk management which help persevere my capital.
In all I took 6 trades this week 3 on Monday and 3 on Thursday, all of which were outside my edge. My results were 4 stop outs, 1 partial, 1 hit profit target (although my execution was terrible, so I gave most of it back to my broker).
Now for the good news, next week is a new week.