Opened Mon 7 Sep, 19:14 · thesis sealed at the open
Entry55046.1
Size0.244
Stop55715.1
Target53834.6
Risk163.24 USDT
of equity0.63%
R:R1.81
Notional13 431.25 USDT
PlanRange reclaim
Result
-402.54 USDT-2.47R
Closed Mon 7 Sep, 22:53 · stop hit
Exit56651.8
Net-402.54 USDT
R-2.47R
Gross-391.79 USDT
Fees10.75 USDT
Costs0.080%
Held3h 39m
EndedStop hit
ClosedMon 7 Sep, 22:53
VerdictBroke the rules
Chart
Candle data — where these bars came from
309 bars from BINANCE
at 5m,
captured when the trade closed and kept — this charts the same whether or not the exchange still answers. Mon 7 Sep, 00:50 to Tue 8 Sep, 02:35
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.
Mon 7 Sep · 19:14
Opened55046.1 · Short · stop 55715.1 · target 53834.6
Retest held, entering with a stop below it. Should be a quick one.
PlanRange reclaim
DuringiWhile it ran. Notes here are stamped and cannot be edited.
21:02
Moved the stopto 56651.8 · further out
AfteriHindsight — kept apart from what you knew at the time.
22:53
Closed56651.8 · stop hit
Price hit my stop and I moved it further away because I was sure it would come back. It did not. Small loss became a big one.
Tue 8 Sep · 01:56
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 55715.1.
✓
Planned reward at least 1.5× the risk kept · measuredPlanned 1.8109× the risk, against 1.5.
✓
Risk no more than 1% of equity kept · measuredRisked 0.6273% of equity (26023.15 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 55715.1 to 56651.8, 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 2nd 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.
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