Trading-Mentality

Last week, I followed my plan trading trend momentum on the 1-hour timeframe fairly well. I have a few winners and a couple of losers to highlight. My winners were bigger than my losers, which led to a positive P&L in last week's session.

Last week, I wrote a post on Monte Carlo simulations. This is a follow-up post as I spent the past week running a strategy that modeled the trade statistics I inputted into the "calculator."

Three notable trades over the past week. Although August felt like a slower month, being patient and only going for the cleanest setups did pay off.

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An uneventful, maybe even a slightly boring, week. A couple of my trades ended up reverting back to break-even, which I closed, due to the Fed's hawkish stance at the Jackson Hole symposium on Friday. I immediately observed this on my EURUSD trade and a few others.

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.