Day 6Friday 10 July
Risking 12.3% on a single trade is dangerous, especially on a freshly reset account. A win like this can disguise the risk of oversized trades and inflate confidence dangerously. Regardless of the setup’s potential, ignoring size alerts jeopardizes long-term success. Keep risk at 5% per trade, no exceptions.
Why I took it. Back after a couple of days off, and back on the right side of the trend. The 1-hour was turning bearish and we had built a 15-minute range. Price swept the high of that range, then the 5-minute broke structure to the downside, so the 5-minute and the 1-hour were finally pointing the same way, and BTC looked like it was rolling over with it. I entered on the small retest of the break, stop above the swing at 69.336, targeting the 15-minute range point of control at 67.9 for about a 2R.
How it played out. It dug about 0.25R against me on the retest and then delivered. I banked two-thirds around the point of control and left a runner aimed at the swing lows, trailing my stop down behind it. We missed the swing lows by a fraction, the bounce took out my trail at 67.214, +3.5R on that final piece, and the whole position came out at +2.61R net, the best trade of the challenge so far, with about 4.2R at the extreme. The catch: I was sized at 12.3% of the freshly reset $500, Temper flagged it in the moment, and I dismissed the alert. Right side of the trend, right structure, wrong size again.
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