My Trading Journal
June 2026
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Tuesday June 8th 2026 - we are back!!
yup, looks like direction is bullish today! of course, why would they let the ipo suffer from the correction? anyway, i'm in such a great mood today. things are looking amazing in my personal life. maybe it's a reflection of the markets, maybe the markets are a reflection of my life. things are in a state of flow. i've got plans. the universe is manifesting... let's keep rolling the dice, and keeping our probabilities high.
Monday June 8th 2026 - another glorious monday morning.
it looks like the markets are starting to come back! thank goodness. i thought the bull market was maybe reversing for the large correction. i suppose we have more room to go. Also this week is the long awaited spacex ipo.. it's a great time to just be tuned into the markets! i am having an issue with my stops not triggering when trading mnq.. and i'm kinda having to tough it out doing manual stops which is so difficult for me. perhaps because i'm trading lower liquidity times, i'm not sure. but when i see the level touch and surpass my stop and it does not trigger i immediately get a sense of disappointment because i know i dont have the willpower to exit! this is something i'm actively working on. the other thing is ensuring i'm seeing confirmation of a move, and picking a more desirable entry for a decided move before acting impulsively. let's do it!!
Sunday June 7th 2026 - back to work!
the weekend was nice, spent some time with family, but it's back to work tonight! actually, i got my copy of market wizards on friday so i was reading that over the weekend and the anecdotes and bits of insights are so magical :) so i guess i was still working!! but markets are open again so i can breathe! this week i am here with fresh eyes again and i'm starting it out by studying my charts with more depth and analysis so i can really finely pinpoint my setups. after that huge waterfall of the indices i really wonder what is to come tomorrow!
Friday June 5th 2026 - what a revelation
the biggest losses come with the greatest clarify and drive for change. several times i was smacking myself thinking 'what am i doing!?! it's SO obvious!!' when i just zoomed out. the issue is i've been changing instruments. I started off with EURUSD. once i got comfortable, i wanted to learn a different instrument so i went over to MES. once i got a footing on MES, i am now more interested in MNQ. and wow it's so different. not only am i switching asset categories but also each ticker has its own personality and this is so important to know.. you cannot blindly apply any person's teachings for trading from ticker to ticker. each one requires its own individual assessment and study. I was trying to apply MES principles to the MNQ chart which was stopping me out repeatedly and aggressively time after time. Once i saw that was what was happening and recalibrated my viewpoints and study, what i saw on the MNQ chart was just beautiful - elegant. She plunders through key levels like a ferocious lion, and the V shape reversals are dynamite! No choppy behaviours and hesitations at key levels like I was used to on MES.. it feels so.. pure but that i'm understanding its behaviour more. i'm hoping to settle here on MNQ.. let's see if i can find a home here!
Thursday June 4th 2026 - i started off patient - mercy of tilt
my first trade was a small risk trade, and i was patient and happy about it. until it turned against my favour. after today i realized i cannot enter trades on the basis of it being low risk so it wont affect me even if it goes sour. at that point the bias was undecided for the day, i just went in willy nilly, all cute and whimsy like mary poppins. that small risk loss tilted me today and i had an overall huge loss from several bad trades after that first one. my bias was wrong the whole time and i was being stubborn and egotistical after that first trade. if i had waited until i was much more confident in the day's bias i would not have entered those trades. the thing is a lot of the time we see the patterns on the charts and bias is not usually off, especially when we build intuition as daily traders. the problem is those days when it IS wrong, it's compounded and you're fighting against that ego monster. if i was not invested in that small first trade, if i was not financially invested, i likely would have been able to see and think more clearly and change my bias to the correct one, completely unbothered. that was not the case for today and it was yet another lesson. all the progress i made back this past week wiped.
Wednesday June 3rd 2026 - patience is my worst challenge
impatience is never rewarded. the tales of the market and of history repeat, perhaps in different guises or symbols but inevitably we are presented with circumstances and patterns that have appeared previously. being able to see the patterns or having awareness of the unpredictable nature of the beast of the market is not enough. how we execute is everything. can we restrain ourselves until the right opportunity is in front of us? the markets are just cut throat this week, and i'm sure everything is feeling the brunt of it. if you are making out alive, kudos to ya! i'm obviously not ready yet. but let's keep going.
Tuesday June 2nd 2026 - life outside of trading
i get so obsessed that everything i do and think about revolves around my trading work, process and journey. one of my biggest dreams is to live in different places in the world throughout the year, and that's a huge reason for wanting to learn trading as an income producing skill. I have to remind myself to keep those macro goals in mind and in sight, so as not to lose myself in the trading tilts and the addictive tendencies that can arise. zooming out so to speak. i think about what countries allow favourable tax residencies. i think about what countries offer good trading time zones. i think about which countries offer great weather months. i think about internet accessibility, convenience and amenities of cities, affordability and infrastructure for getting to and fro around the city. i think about the food, the ability to do my day trading work in that area while travelling there that would not trigger tax or visa conflicts. i am in real time re-building my life from the ground up thinking about these very important matters. and i'm also obsessed with that, as much as i am with my newfound trading obsession. but just balancing things out is so important. i don't really believe in work life balance per se - if i love what i do it doesn't feel like work.. today's thoughts are more to do with i just need to continue to prioritize time for my routines, life planning, and other interests in my life as much as i do with my work!
Monday June 1st 2026 - can't believe it's june already
wow. just wow. time flies when you're having fun i guess. so when i first started having interest in trading global financial markets, i had no care in the world about politics, macroeconomics, how money works etc. boy was i wrong! im now a student of the world's geopolitical and macroeconomic events and fluctuations... i still love technicals in terms of reading charts but i add confluence by looking at the macro signals for the day that further validate my hypothesis or maybe contradicts it. this helps me to add or subtract conviction and therefore percentage of probability in my setup for the day... and to size accordingly. i'm quite proud of myself for understanding finally how interconnected all the markets are. i'm so new to the game and am just getting started, and i feel like the world is there for me to learn, explore, dive head first into.. like a kid in a candy store!! i'm refining, honing everyday and sharpening my tools.. for the gladiator fight!!
