SIA's Trading Journal - 2025

Trade TP-ed. Same mechanical entry, setup limit orders and setup alerts, close charts and let the trade run. Testing the repeatability of this system, seems fully optimised for now. Will continue to observe for a few more weeks.

Trade TP-ed. Marked my zones, setup my limit orders, price action went to my EP, go through price volatility, TP-ed. Done for the day.

Trade TP-ed. Same routine as yesterday. Mechanical planning and execution. That’s all we are going for. Let’s keep this emotionless trading system going.

Trade TP-ed. Went with the same routine, mechanical limit orders, trade entered, whiplash, TP-ed, end of story. Lets do this.

Trade SL-ed, same zone as yesterday, but much strong downforce applied this time. All good, reset limit orders, wait for next trade. With the number of TPs so far, statistically this SL was just waiting to show up, mind reset, back to mechanical execution.

Trade TP-ed. Zone respected cleanly. Trade entered. TP hit in under 5 minutes. No intervention. Mental state: calm, detached. Post-trade routine initiated—brief reward, followed by reset and reanalysis.

Trade TP-ed.

Trade hit visual TP, not broker TP. No intervention. Held position. Full TP achieved minutes later. Let’s do this.

Trade SL-ed. Noted a prior price action near to my EP, under 10 pips, that initiated at around 80 pips of price movement. Will consider that price level exhausted for future trades and shift my my trade orders when that happens.

Trade SL-ed. Marked zone had no reaction, further review required on price level validity. Let’s do this.

Trade SL-ed. Reached the end of my trading attempts for today. End of day, review and revise. Let’s prepare ourselves for the next day of trading.

Today's the final trading day of the month for XAUUSD so I will not be entering any trades until the new month. Thanks for following my trade journal and I will update again in Q3 2025!

Trade SL-ed. As usual, mark out zones, mechanical entry, however, same problem, price action went to EP area under 3 pips and exhausted liquidity up to 30 pips. Correct action would be to cancel off limit order.

Trade SL-ed. Price seems to be unusually one-sided today. May have to consider fundamental factors in place.

Trade SL-ed. Today I attempted to give a buffer zone of +3 pips from my zone, and price goes to about +3 pips from my buffered +3 EP, retraced sufficiently and went down and SL-ed my trade. I will go through my past losing trades and see whether I will need to adjust my buffer zone to at least 5-10 pips.

Trade SL-ed. Technical factors seems to be overridden by fundamentals. Will look more into my recent trades.

Trade TP-ed. Revised the price level structure and simplified it. It’s working for now. Will continue to observe the validity.

Trade SL-ed twice in a row. Done with 3 trades for the day, will look into the trades later during a review session.

Trade TP-ed. Simplified the marked price levels and considering to reduce the amount of trades per day I plan to initiate.

Trade SL-ed. Trade entered, price action whiplashed, but failed to hold the reversal and went to SL. Trade details noted. Proceed to setup other limit orders.