Made up of 19 trading days. 4 losing days in total, and 15 winning days. Which is a pretty good ratio, that I'm quite happy with. Really solid first month back, and I am super happy with it.
Winning days: For the most part, I seem to trade pretty perfectly on winning days. Based on the strategies I adopt, I believe I should have one or two losing days max each month. It wouldn't be unreasonable for those losing days to be relatively high in magnitude compared to winning days, but I really failed in this area this month, because the size of the losing days were far too large. It is important to acknowledge this, in order to avoid fighting stubbornly and making those losing days larger than they need to be.
Literally the biggest mistakes for the entire month occurred all in the last day. It is soooo important that I don't go over designated max size. Every little emotion (patience, greed, fomo etc) becomes bigger when over max size, and begins to rule the trade.
This is obviously as bad as it can get because it is on more than intended size as well! So I think main thing to focus on for the next month is to never go over max size.
One other thing. Look at the size of the days leading up to the big $14k loss. Those were monster days. I knew I would be struggling to keep greed in check - I even wrote a post on it, to try and acknowledge/mitigate it. Still it's so important to hone in on this. Maybe if I am really worried about it, I should deliberately have a few quiet days; just to slow things down. Longer term this wouldn't be ideal (should maximise profitability when opportunity is there), but for my main goal at the moment (consistency) it may be reasonable to consider.
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