Trading-Mentality

Focusing on the 1-hour and 4-hour timeframes over the past few weeks have been uneventful. In addition to the lower summer volatility, trend momentum signals also have not played out for me. As a result, I scratched quite a few trades as well as having a few hit my stop loss.

The week ending July 31st was tough. Price action was very unpredictable, which resulted in several stop losses and manual exits at a loss. From a strategy standpoint, I don't think there were any issues with the trade entries.

I don't have many trades to recap this week. There is one trade that I've held throughout this entire week and I am still holding through this weekend's close. I also entered one new trade, which is currently not showing much momentum.

In my previous post , I shared my theory to multiple timeframe analysis. Practicing what I preach is a lot harder to do, but I am trying. I took a couple of trades where momentum remained insignificant so I exited accordingly. However, this week's recap will focus on two key trades.

I have been developing my own theory to multiple timeframe analysis (MTA). MTA is almost the equivalent of a buzzword that every trading Youtuber "guru" likes to mention. However, I feel few get it right.

This week was very uneventful. I took several losses. Some trades just didn't work out. Other trades were due to my impatience as the entry decision was not optimal. I'll cover several trades and let's hope these lessons learned translate to a better June.

The week ending April 24, 2026 was underwhelming. The confidence from the prior week built up and I took more trades than I should have. As a result, some trades were sub-optimal because I did not wait for a full trend structure to form.  There were also a couple of other trades where I scaled size a little bit too aggressively. This post will be short to recap some of the sub-optimal decisions that I made and how I should have approached the setups differently.