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It's been a minute. Why? Well I've been at it long enough to realize which environments I'm better at trading at and which I should be more selective and slow. I traded incredible from an execution and outcome standpoint in January and March. March especially was a very volatile market with VIX 20+ driving large ranges on a daily basis. That is in very stark contrast to late April and early May which has been a slow grind up. When the market is volatile the setups appear more

I've been able to think slower and not cave too impulses, but the underlying overthinking remains. The source of that angst, overthinking, double guessing, I believe, is due to loss acceptance. I believe this is it because the times when I've truly accepted the loss AND not trying to make money, PA becomes incredibly clear and trade execution becomes very simple. What's going to happen is going to happen. I typically will set stop loss levels and profit levels but if I haven'

Okay, it's been a minute. Why? Well the beginning of the month I was not in a great headspace and gave away my best month ever in January. The only reason it hasn't been worse is I withdrew most of the profit from January. Early Feb tilted it back. Then as the cycle goes. Got serious. Here's the things I've learned that I somehow need to imprint in my brain: With ATM cons and a proper 10m setup I don't need more than 5 contracts to move the needle There is absolutely never a

+6.5% Positions were 60 delta 1-3 cons There was one trade where it became obvious and so I added cons for a quick in and out. One other time I took a 10 contract position. I stopped out for a 5% loss only to have it rip 20% in my direction. Smaller size would've kept me in. I constantly size too big despite feeling calm, slow and confident when sizing properly. Today I sized small and banked. So much easier to stay small, take the loss and re-enter or re-asses. +6% with 3 co