Up is down and down is up. Over trading for multiple losses...on a Friday. HURTS!

Today up was down and down was up. Nothing did what it was "supposed to."
Today I seriously overtraded. While I did follow my system rules, I didn't take heed to stop total account losses.
What should I do on a day like this? I need to mind my total account loss. Don't take one more trade. The fact that nothing is behaving tells me not to waste any more time and money.



ROKU
gap up
pivot and bounce
-31.71%

NVDA
gap up
ran up, down, piviot and buy.
-42.86%

YNDX
gap down
wiggled around, short new low. spread too big
-57.18%

SPY
nms
run down. bounce and base below vwap,
-28.61%

AAPL for breakeven

Daily setup: watchlist. preempt daily breakout
Entry/play: vwap bounce
Management: trail/squeeze stop
Psychology: fine. If anything, bummed to have "wasted" my money on this sub-optimal daily setup.

TSLA -7%

Daily setup: pennant bd. watchlist.
Entry/play: short fail ndh at daily resistance
Management: trail tight stop
Psychology: fine. I had $$ in my eyes, but most importantly I observed "cutting losses brings profits". Helps that I had AMAT cushion.

AMAT +60% in too small

Daily setup: gap
Entry/play: waited more than 1 min new high bc of premkt resist. good thing bc it made smidge ndl before bounce.
Management: My stop was small. Should have gone bigger position. took p/l target. trailed and squeezed stop
Psychology: Good. I like that I waited for a good pivot entry and not chase. Tried to use a new calculation about position size, but hard to get all the parameters in fast situation. Glad I went "safe" but wish I went bigger.

ZM +18% after wrap

Daily setup: breaking down pennant
Entry/play: watching this pennant and 5ema. Intraday weakness, held the 5, but basing there. Preempt ndl.
Management: wide spreads so need to take target and not f' around with stops. At my ask, it didn't fill for a while and I got scared before it finally filled. Continued to squeeze stop down. Maybe should have grabbed out on 10:07 spike, but squeezed stop and can't complain.
Psychology: I took this trade after I had called it a wrap. Is that money burning a hole? I think the setup was valid and I played it right, but if I would have lost money, would I say it was impulsive?

UNH -5% then it ran without me

Daily setup: gap
Entry/play: after initial surge and pb near vwap, preempt ndh
Management: initial stop below pivot, then raise stop below breakout area. I got flushed on volatility there, and then it ran hard way past my target.
Psychology: OK. MU gainer was nice green cushion and that helped a lot. Here I went smaller not to mess that up. Was my stop too tight? No. I just got shaken out on chop. That can go either way, so I should just stick to my plan. A bit of fomo but I got my piece, and this time my piece was a small loser.

MU +44% beauty

Daily setup: gap
Entry/play: preempt ndh after pivot
Management: trail then squeeze stop
Psychology: Good. Nice opening trade. A loss here could have been big %, but I think the $ was moderated by position size.

Tuesday 2/11 trades

TMUS loser

CRWD gainer

SPY both ways ugh.

QSR +38%. Grab and go

Daily setup: gap
Entry/play: after whoosh and stabilize, long for continuation.
Management: Initial stop below pennant. After it didn't stop and looked to bounce, I added. Trailed stop. When it paused just below my T1, I took some off. Then squeezed stop on the rest.
Psychology: Good! Love how I played it and didn't go down with the ship.
No reason to give room. Grab and GO!

BYND -6%

Daily setup: NMS
Entry/play: after pb and pause below ndh
Management: initial stop below pause. trail stop below b/o bar.
Psychology: OK. was bummed at first, but super not-bummed when it went to ndl.
1. better small loss than psychological damage
2. never expect nms to behave like my usual setups