I participated in the trader's challenge this week and each day I tried to win the day by hitting home runs instead of taking base hits, completely forgetting about proper setups, revenge trading just everything we are taught not to do. I wouldn't even take profits when I was up because I wanted more, pure greed. But I'm actually glad this happened since it taught my some very valuable lessons about what not to do and what could happen if I traded this way live. If I had won then would I have learned some horrible ways of trading that would have eventually lost me money in a live account. I'm not knocking the challenge at all only the way I traded during it. I did have a plan each day of which stocks to trade and wait for those setups but once the bell opened I completely abandoned those plans and traded like a goon. I didn't adhere to stops!? On Friday after being down immediately after open, I took some time, thought about everything and opened my SIM account and traded my plan. I caught X as it went to the 9 MA on the daily and my original target was the take half at the 9 MA then the rest at the 20 MA which it hit but it was SIM and I was over it already. I also had a plan to trade BYND when it hit the premarket low of $66.56, it broke it but started coming back up and I took it long and it went through VWAP and fell but didn't come back to my break-even and ended up at $72. I guess this is my confession on my extremely poor trading this week.
I do understand that SIM has little to no emotion. I go back and forth with SIM and live to control bad behaviors/habits. I look forward to hearing about your journey this month and wish you much success.