the week was pretty interesting, if you ask me.

i took 3 trades, 2 losses and 1 breakeven.

to be accurate, one was a partial loss, but that still counts as a loss.

having partial losses violates my rule against micromanaging positions.

the other loss was an impulse trade. i had no reason to take the trade based on my system, but i did anyways.

if you've been following, i mentioned being on a losing streak. while such streaks could happen from time to time, they shouldn't go uninspected. otherwise, the feedback is wasted.

i took 2 trades in august, 8 in september, and 9 in october.

within that timeframe, i only had a single win, which was in october. the rest were breakevens or losses.

it was actually very frustrating because i felt like i was putting in my best, so constantly taking hits felt unfair.

bad trades resulted in losses. good trades either resulted in losses, or i messed up something one might consider trivial, yet the market still punished me.

i didn't review the 2 trades i took in august because i introduced the hp-10 review system, where i focus on taking high-probability trades and only review when the count hits 10 trades.

2 trades in august and 8 trades in september meant that i should review because the count was now 10, but i didn't review any of those trades.

the month was messy. i'd just pretend like it never happened and move on to the next month, and that is exactly what i did.

it's important to also mention that i was experiencing some real-life turbulence that further aggravated the frustration of taking back to back losses.

i was completely unmotivated to do anything, and i felt out of touch with the market.

i abandoned my process: routines and rituals.

i slept whenever i liked. woke up whenever i liked. checked the charts whenever i liked. took trades whenever i liked.

in october, i decided to put even more skin in the game, and the losses continued.

i managed to secure a win in the middle of october that ended the losing streak.

this weekend, i decided to review the trades i had taken in october, and i realized that august and september had no logs.