I can't blame them pesky ES journal monitoring, market making stop hunters today! Traded in secret and for transparency i'm in the red lol. Not down much, but not very pretty trading today for me.
It was an exaggeration, yes, but it was a day where you could have made multiples of your average day and enough to weather a ton of red days. I've been cutting my winners short for most of my trading years, but in later years and especially this one I've started really running my winners. You may not have read it, but I catched a 100 point short on the 1st trading day of September. And yes, it was tough to hold it all the way. I was shitting bricks even though the trade was 50 + points in the money as I was constantly contemplating if I should close it, thinking about profits I'd lose, thinking about where to put the trailing stop, etc. Yesterday, I was in the trade, but at that point I just wanted to secure a green day and played it too damn safe getting spiked out on the 12:00 pullback. It's a functionality on the Topstep platform. You can lock your account and you won't be able to trade until the next day. Nice for gamblers like myself. Just did it again today after securing a green day. LOL. Long from 60 to 95. Enough to pay for my prior losses and a bit more (but not much).