Weekly Performance Review

Week 9 review:
P/L: +/- 0% on two USD/JPY shorts. One booked partial profit right away, the other stopped out at full loss. I'll give the partial profit +1 because I made something but both were so far countertrend I can't say that they were choice in any way. 0/5 1/5

Psychology: Nothing stood out last week.

Other: I'm giving up on the JPY intervention trade per post #20. I'm also not trading long on any JPY pair. If there is a legitimate turnaround, I will evaluate and trade according to my new ruleset for turnaround / quasi countertrend trades. My time and energy are much better spent improving my day to day skills rather than trying to catch some miracle move.

the early exit being consistent regardless of session or day tells you it is not about the market condition at all, it is a state you get into once you are in a trade. the market cannot cause that pattern, only you can

Agreed 100%

early exits are interesting because most traders try to fix them with rules. wider stops, commitment frameworks, whatever. but the pattern usually survives all of that. have you ever tracked what state you were in right before the exit happened? not the trade setup, just you