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I nearly let this one go. Plan drawn at 8am: 4H bearish FVG in a pullback. By noon my funded accounts were locked. Then price did exactly what I’d drawn. Fresh eval, full size. It passed. Would you have taken it or passed? #MNQ #futurestrading
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Mon 19 Oct. +$3,103.58 across 9 copy traded accounts on MNQ. The plan did most of the work today. My job was to stay out of its way. #MNQ #futurestrading #daytrading #propfirm #fundedtrader
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An empty economic calendar feels like a safe day. It isn’t, not exactly. No news removes the spike risk. It also removes the fuel. Thinner liquidity, less conviction, more chop. And the quiet day before CPI? That’s a coiled spring, not a free market. Link in first comment.
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Full post: theordinarytrader.com/knowle…

Are no news days good for trading? - The Ordinary Trader

An empty calendar feels like a green light. But no news days have their own character and risks - especially the session before a major release like CPI.

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Mon 19 Oct. MNQ short, London. +35.75 points, 1.91R. SMT at the top in the macro, 5m bullish FVG inverted for the entry. TP1 took the equal lows, and the rest stopped out at the trailing SL. Same process, win or lose. #MNQ #futurestrading
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Mon 19 Oct. MNQ short, London. +55.25 points, 3.75R. Pullback into OTE and a rejection off a small 5m bearish FVG. 1m version for the entry, targeting the 1H bullish CE. TP1, then the target. Same process, win or lose. #MNQ #nasdaq #futurestrading #daytrading #ICT
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Getting paid faster sounds like a win. Until your trading style changes. The target resets the moment you hit it. You hold losers longer, size up, force setups. A payout should be the result of good trading, not the reason for it. #propfirm #futurestrading
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No red folder news this week. Sounds easy, but it usually means more chop, fake breaks and quiet afternoons. So: smaller targets, earlier partials, fewer trades. Same process. Do you trade more or less on quiet weeks? 👇 #futurestrading #NQ #daytrading #ICT #propfirm
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Nothing on the calendar. Plenty that can go wrong. No FOMC, CPI or NFP 19-23 Oct. Expect chop and fake outs. Quiet weeks don't blow accounts. Bored traders do. Same process. Wait for the setup, take profits sooner. #futurestrading #daytrading
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Trying to feel nothing while trading is the problem. Push fear down and it comes back as a moved stop. Notice it. Name it. Go back to the plan you made when you were calm. What's the last decision your emotions made for you mid-trade? #tradingpsychology #futurestrading
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Amateurs predict. Professionals prepare. Nobody knows where price is going next. Not you, not me, not the guy on Twitter with the arrows. Mark your levels, set your risk, write the plan before the open. Then the session gets quiet. #daytrading #futurestrading
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How much did I make trading this week? Week of 12 Oct: +$33,286.94 copy traded on MNQ and NQ. 4 of 5 days green. Red Thursday gave back $7,473. The plan didn’t change. Same plan, same risk next week. #futurestrading #daytrading
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Fri 16 Oct. +$3,504.94 across 15 copy traded accounts on MNQ. A good day is the result of the rules followed on the red ones. #MNQ #futurestrading #daytrading #propfirm #fundedtrader
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Fri 16 Oct. MNQ short, London. +41.25 points, 1.50R. SMT at the top, then the 5 min inversion. Delivering from the 1H bearish, targeting the break of structure. Second winner of the day. Same process, win or lose. #MNQ #nasdaq #futurestrading #daytrading #ICT
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Fri 16 Oct. MNQ short, London. +30.75 points, 1.76R. In the macro and in the OTE, rejecting off the 1H FVG. 2m inversion for the entry, targeting the external low. TP2 reached. Same process, win or lose. theordinarytrader.com #MNQ #nasdaq #futurestrading #daytrading #ICT
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You can win more trades than you lose and still finish red. It's usually not your setups. It's your sizing. The fix: same risk every trade. theordinarytrader.com/knowle… #riskmanagement #futurestrading
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Every chart has two layers of structure. External: the higher highs and higher lows that define the trend. Internal: the smaller swings inside each leg, mostly noise. The best moves tend to come when the two line up. The trend is your friend. #futures #marketstructure
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No edge survives emotion. Your strategy can be right and your levels can be right. None of it matters once fear or frustration takes over. The edge lives in the rules. Emotion is what makes you break them. #tradingpsychology #daytrading
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You were 90% of the way to TP. Now you’re back at break even. That last 10% is the most expensive part of the trade: 9R of risk for 1R of reward. You’d never enter that trade, yet we hold for it every time. So why do we still do it? Link in comment #daytrading #futurestrading
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When is enough profit enough? - The Ordinary Trader

You're 2R up, 90% of the way to your target, then price swings back. Why we hold on for that last 10%, and the mid-trade question we're actually avoiding.

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