Spread on the minors widened to four times normal for about ninety seconds this morning. If you were stopped out in that window, check your fill.

Publishing the bad week as well. Down 2.1 percent, four trades, three of them the same idea in different clothes.

No screenshots this month. The good days were small and the bad days were smaller, which is what the plan asks for.

Halved the size and the quality of my decisions went up, which is an unflattering thing to discover about yourself.

The first fifteen minutes of the London open are not a trading window, they are a price discovery window. I have finally stopped confusing the two.

The tape read me today. Every level I leaned on turned into the level everyone leaned on, and it went the way the crowd goes.

Cut the position in half and the thesis got clearer immediately. That is not a coincidence and I have stopped pretending it is.

Flat by Friday, no exceptions. It costs me a few good Mondays a year and it has never once cost me a weekend.

EURUSD

Sunday decision held all week without a single adjustment. That is the first time this year and I would like it noted.

Two weeks of no screens and the only thing I missed was the chat. Not the charts.

Two accounts gone before this one. What is different: I write the invalidation down before the entry, and I do not get to argue with it afterwards.

Carry is quietly eleven basis points a day to hold now. Nothing about the thesis changed, the crowd did.

Ninety seconds after a scheduled release is not a market, it is an auction with the lights off. I have stopped calling my fills there bad luck.

Spread widened into the number and my stop was inside it. That is not a stop, that is a donation, and it was my own arithmetic that put it there.

SOLUSD

Open interest climbing while the rate stays high is the only funding signal I trust, and it still only tells me to size down.

Down four in a row. The setups were fine, the sizing was fine, the sequence was ugly. That is allowed to happen and it still feels like a verdict.

Gapped through my level overnight and the size is the only reason I am writing this calmly.

Gap risk is a fee you pay for a benefit you have to name in advance. If you cannot name it, you are not holding, you are hoping.

Sat out the whole middle of the session and finished the day flat. Counting it.

Went back through the notes and marked every one where I used the word "should". They are almost exactly the losing set.