EQ Day

 I like this term so I'm going to use it. Essentially, it's short for "execution quality day." It's basically a day or a session where I believe I did the best that I could regardless of the outcome.

This has certainly been the case given that there haven't been that many opportunities in the futures market. To briefly show this, here's the chart showing the price action on ES. NQ and YM don't look any better either.

ESU1

I made one change to my charts. Previously, I used 5,000 contracts per bar on NQ and 3,000 contracts per bar on ES. I recently swapped these two. The reason is that lower contract increments work better when there's volatility. You can get cleaner moves. Since ES has been rather choppy, I bumped it up to 5,000 contract increments in order to "smoothen" it out.

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After a very choppy session, I was able to end the session with a small profit. I didn't "lose it" when I started going negative. I continued to just grind quality setups whenever I saw them. Ultimately, it paid off.

I also had a very nice win in the FX markets too. It was over on the EURNZD pair, chart attached below.

EURNZD 1-Hour

I saw that EURNZD was topping out so I entered short, which can be seen in the first down arrow. After price broke below the "floor," I sensed that there was a possibility that momentum would pick up. Naturally, I scaled in and was able to ride it all the way to the next major level. Overall, I'm happy that I was able to make a plan and see it through.

This screengrab also shows how problematic the FX industry can be. I typically use Oanda as my price feed since my broker (CMC Markets) isn't connected directly to Tradingview. Oanda works great for the most part. However, there are some days when they'll have random spikes. They are one of the only brokers that have this spike. I checked the price feed of my broker along with the price feed of Global Prime and IDC and none of them have this spike. Like my broker, Oanda is a market-maker. Perhaps they were so offside that they needed to price spike in order to stop out some larger positions. Who knows?