JWN -18%

Daily setup: gap to top range after flush
Entry/play: 1 min run up after drop
Management: didn't take hod which was box resistance. Suffered the rest of the day and the rest of the crappy things I do.
Psychology: crap

psychology/mood post

Is it coming across? I'm annoyed. I'm trading greedy/scared/swearing... These are glaring warning signs that I'm not chill.

Need a reset. Need to take a series of singles. I'm not going to repair this quickly (greed), so I need return to strings of success.

Next week is Thanksgiving week. I'm going to take the whole week off. Seriously.

LK -65% on stabbing around

Daily setup: recent flier. gap up to new highs
Entry/play: preempt ndh
Management: gave it too much room.
Psychology: just fing aggravated

TSLA -27% all kinds of wrong

Daily setup: gap below high flag
Entry/play: puts after opening drop and stabilize
Management: didn't take p/l target, then after a pullback I got scared and tightened stop too much
Psychology: too big. too scared. didn't take p/l target and so I missed my price target when it got there. I already know trading tsla to go one strike out to help slow it down for me, but I really played this too emotionally.
Update, I also stabbed at calls in there, for a loss. Efffff

AMD +23% missed the big bite

Daily setup: pullback day (along with market) after recordbreaking run up
Entry/play: postO, preempting ndl when market also weak.
Management: too early! had some pain before it came back down (recurring theme). So then I was spooked out at breakeven on half, and didn't have guts to hold for my whole target, which it did eventually reach.
Psychology: Glad for a winner, but I don't like trading scared. Means I'm in too big, I guess.

LRCX +10%

Daily setup: gap below high box
Entry/play: turn down after surge
Management: spreads, ugh. In the first min or two, I could have gotten 2.7 for 20% p/l target, but I "wanted" 3.0. Missed it and went through torture (plus 50% loss, approx) before it came back in. Then squeezed stop/limit.
Psychology: Bad. Big spread problem, known to me. Need to take limit orders and be satisfied in that environment.

NOW +108% toxic gainer

Daily setup: Gap up
Entry/play: postO, after a really volatile open, new high after stabilization. Very big position for my account size.
Management: Terrible. Didn't trail stop well (big spread) and yanked it. Didn't take target. Took it home. Exit day 2 at my original dream target, but with a blind limit order. I can only call it lucky bc I got top tick on a whipsaw.
Psychology: Greed and luck = toxic gainer. This is one of those trades that skews my mind. I didn't take a decent gain opportunity day1 bc wanted more, yanked stops. Day 2 got fing lucky.

NVDA -15% day 3 exit

Daily setup: Previous day rinse, entry day surge, within high base
Entry/play: postO, ndh. kind of a chase
Management: um, not good mgt. yanked a few stops. Tried to yank one day1 stop, and luckily I wasn't fast enough bc would have been fatal. Day 2 it went hard against me, day 3 I got lucky and got a surge day (vs total destruction).
Psychology: terrible. broke lots of rules including not trailing stop into a gainer. sweated this trade for 3 days. DON'T

NVDA beautiful dump +95%

Daily setup: relative weakness, surge failure, nms
Entry/play: preempt ndl
Management: trail stop. Only one put so when it got close to a conservative target, squeezed stop.
Psychology: great. Being on the right side of a dump is fun!

QCOM +44%

Daily setup: Gap above high flag
Entry/play: new 1min high
Management: combination of targets and stops
Psychology: ok. Bummed not to have taken more at 2nd target (greed), but glad as always for the stops