SIA's Trading Journal - 2025

Yet another zone breached without retracement. The system may not be followed today, interesting. Will look for one more opportunity before I reached my max quota of trades for today. Will do a more focused review tonight after my intraday trades are done.

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Thank you Tonggiang for the praise! Appreciate it! 😃

This morning after marking out my zones, I setup both my sell and buy limit orders and went out for a walk. 30 minutes later, I checked my phone and price action barely missed my EP by that 0.01%. A moment of anxiety set in, “What if the trade didn’t enter because of spread?”

When I open my trading app, a sense of relief as the trade did enter and TP-ed. Let’s do this.

Tested my system on the US session one last time and came to the conclusion that my zones only work during the Asian and Pre-US London session. Trade SL-ed, lesson learned, let's move on, let's do this.

Trade SL-ed. Interesting observation as I was trying to refine my zones further and make them more narrow, the less retracement reactions I am seeing nowadays. Sometimes what is considered as refinement to us may just turn out to be detrimental instead. Reverting back to the old system.

Trade SL-ed. When a trade goes smoothly, it reaches TP level, but guess what? Broker spread got in the way by 0.5 pip. It was a pain train when I head back to my trading app to see a SL instead of a well deserved TP. But it is what it is, move on, to the next trade. Zone's working well again, that's all I needed to know.

Marked my zones, setup my limit orders, let price action do its thing. 1 Hour later, price action goes into my trade order, goes down, about 10 pips away from my SL, retraces and proceeds to hit TP. A decent trade to start the week with. Let's do this.

Trade SL-ed. Price action broke through marked zone with ease. Since yesterday price action did not touch my marked zones, I left it there and decided to rely on them today. It may be necessary for me to go through the zones on a daily basis no matter breached or not.

2nd time in a row my marked zone was rejected and trade SL-ed. Important lesson to note for today: Do not trade on the last trading day of the month.

Trade SL-ed. Once again, zones are not respected and being breached again. This month, based on historical statistics, I will be introducing 1:2 R:R ratio for my trades. Will test it out for the entire month of May. Let's do this.

Trade SL-ed. We entered on a re-entry from a breached price zone with a 1:3 R:R ratio, price action barely reached our intended price before smashing down to SL point. Let’s stick to 1:2 from here onwards.

Trade SL-ed. Price action went close to my zone, retraced, and went back towards it again, but the zone did not hold this time. Note: If price goes to around 3-5 pips distance of my intended trade direction, consider zone as breached.

Trade TP-ed. After extensive back-testing, I decided to go with an adventurous 1:3 R:R trade, but close the trade earlier according to my system 15 minutes before US Market opening for a 1:2 R:R profit. Will test out my trades at 1:2 R:R for this entire month.

Trade SL-ed. Interesting situation here. TradingView charts shows a clear entry and TP, but FTMO broker wise shows a SL. Might still have to manually monitor trades due to varying spreads between broker charts moving forward.

Trade SL-ed. This secondary marked zone didn't work out, in fact, I was hesitant with this new zone. Will continue to observe secondary marked zones in the future.

Trade SL-ed. Interesting trade here, even though previous statistics shows the possibility of a 2x3x4x for each win was around 90%, price action hovered around 2.5x before reversing and hitting my SL. The conclusion: If price goes into my marked zone, that's a sign to exit manually.

Trade SL-ed. Interesting action here when price touches SL and rebounces. Will keep track of this type of situation moving forward.

Trade SL-ed. Rushed trade. Force stop, no more trading for the day.