We took a clean setup today. We followed the plan. And we still lost. That’s the post.
But it’s also the truth most traders never tell you — and the exact reason I document everything here and in the Discord.
📉 The Setup – Trade 14
We started, like always, with the one-hour chart. The bias was clearly bullish — red lines for liquidity, yellow boxes for fair value gaps. This is the same markup we use every single morning. Nothing changes. No guessing.
We dropped down to the 15-minute chart and marked out our 15M liquidity levels in yellow lines. There were no 15M FVGs on this setup (which would be purple boxes), and as always, we don’t duplicate 15M FVGs if they overlap with 1H ones.
Then came the 1-minute chart — price came into the area of interest right at the open, with high volume, and broke structure.
This is our setup.
This is the entry.
There’s no hesitation.
📊 Real Execution – No Hypotheticals
This wasn’t a paper trade. It was taken on TopStep using four MES contracts — just like the TradingView setup.
🔁 The Turn – When It All Went Sideways
Price never hit TP1. It reversed. Then it swept out early short sellers around 9:40 AM and reversed again, straight down into our stop.
And then (This is a 1 Hour Chart)…
The 1H bias flipped completely. Price dropped 50 points through all levels. This isn’t predictable. This isn’t avoidable. It’s just the market doing what it does.
💵 The Loss – TopStep Account Snapshot
This trade lost $170.41 — and I took it across five accounts. Here’s the TopStep confirmation:
Does that mean I’m going to change something?
No. I’m going to collect all the data. That’s how this works.
🎯 Trading Truth – What They Won’t Tell You on YouTube
Anybody can click a button and win a trade.
You need zero skill to win once — because the market is random.
The skill comes from identifying a statistical edge and executing it over and over — like a casino.
That’s what I’m doing here.
That’s what I’m teaching inside the Discord.
No, you can’t just copy me and make a million dollars. It doesn’t work like that.
Yes, that might be how you start. But understand this:
I’m a full-time trader. And I’m in drawdown. This is part of the process.
The only way to become a consistently profitable trader is through consistent execution. Not skipping steps. Not avoiding losses. Not adjusting the plan every time a trade goes wrong.
And this is exactly why 99% of traders fail.
Because it’s hard.
It’s hard to take loss after loss…
…to stay calm…
…to not change the rules…
…to not take revenge trades…
…to still show up the next day and execute the same plan with zero hesitation.
Can you do that?
Because that’s the question that separates professionals from the rest.