Opened Fri 14 Aug, 22:03 · thesis sealed 2m after the open
Entry2950.83
Size4.27
Stop2905.6
Target3052.76
Risk193.13 USDT
of equity0.75%
R:R2.25
Notional12 600.04 USDT
PlanRange reclaim
Result
-367.14 USDT-1.90R
Closed Sat 15 Aug, 02:21 · closed manually
Exit2867.21
Net-367.14 USDT
R-1.90R
Gross-357.06 USDT
Fees10.08 USDT
Costs0.080%
Held4h 18m
EndedClosed manually
ClosedSat 15 Aug, 02:21
VerdictBroke the rules
Chart
Candle data — where these bars came from
364 bars from BINANCE
at 5m,
captured when the trade closed and kept — this charts the same whether or not the exchange still answers. Fri 14 Aug, 00:25 to Sat 15 Aug, 06:45
It changes nothing about the trade — your fills, fees and contract size stay
BINANCE's — and the chart says
where the bars came from.
Timeline
BeforeiWhy you took it, written before you were in it.
Fri 14 Aug · 22:03
Opened2950.83 · Long · stop 2905.6 · target 3052.76 · logged 2m later
Setup is good, level is clear. Stop under the swing low, target the prior high.
PlanRange reclaim
DuringiWhile it ran. Notes here are stamped and cannot be edited.
23:46
Moved the stopto 2842.28 · further out
AfteriHindsight — kept apart from what you knew at the time.
Sat 15 Aug · 02:21
Closed2867.21 · closed by hand
Could not accept being wrong, widened the stop, and paid double. The first stop was the right one.
10:41
Reviewedbroke
Rules
Broke the rulesone rule broken, named below
Plan rules · Range reclaim1 broken5 kept · 6 in all
EntryiSettled when the trade was saved.
✓
Stop loss in place at entry kept · measuredStop at 2905.6.
✓
Planned reward at least 1.5× the risk kept · measuredPlanned 2.2536× the risk, against 1.5.
✓
Risk no more than 1% of equity kept · measuredRisked 0.7492% of equity (25777.92 account), against 1.
✓
Level was untouched since it formed keptYour answer.
ManagementiSettled at the close.
✕
Never move the stop further away / increase risk broke · measuredStop moved from 2905.6 to 2842.28, further from entry.
✓
No more than 2 entries kept · measured1 entry, against 2.
Account rules3 kept · 3 in all
✓
No more than 4 trades in a day kept · measuredThe 3rd trade of that day, against 4.
✓
No new trade within 30 minutes of closing a loser kept · measuredThe trade before this one was not a loss.
✓
Never add to a losing trade kept · measuredNever added to.
Something to add to this trade?
Stamped with today and added to the end of After. What you wrote when it closed stays
exactly as it is — that is the version worth keeping.
Logged this by mistake?
The trade stops appearing everywhere in the journal. The row itself is kept, so if you
delete the wrong one the trade and everything you wrote can be brought back from the
database.
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