KK-Tradez
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Trading goals for 2025 I started my trading journey almost 20yrs ago, which makes me sound old, but I'm not, I just started young. But the market is always evolving, thus so should you. No Pre-Market Trades: I did very well last year during NY AM session, which is what I trade the large majority of the time. Occasionally, I would trade pre-market around that 8am - 9am ET time range. Looking at 2024, these trades for me where basically breakeven. Thus for 2025, just going to enjoy the extra time away from charts in the morning and start my trading day at the start of the NY AM session. More Consistency With Smaller Range Plays: As many others probably noticed, the markets day to day range shifted and got a little smaller the second half of 2024. For a few years prior a 100pt win during the NY AM session was not abnormal. Now it seems to be more rare, at-least for my strategy. I often found myself in 2024 taking partials and than getting trailed out waiting for more expansion, because this is what I was used to for many years. I have traded through bull and bear markets, and the time again has come to adapt. 2025 I'll be focusing on smaller range plays and build a more consistent exit rather than getting partials and trailed out. Separating Swings From Day Trades: In summer of 2024 I closed all my prop accounts and went to a single personal account. I gave the prop space a try for about 2 years or so, but just prefer personal account for the freedom. I found myself wanting to also make some larger multi-day swing plays using hourly setups in regard to my custom tools. However, I didn't like having active swing positions in my personal, than also trying to day trade at the same time, as this was forcing me to utilize different assets or messing up my cost basis. For this reason, I opened 2x Bulenox $10k accounts, which allow you to swing during the week, you just cant hold over the weekend. This way I can fully focus my personal account to day trading and use the Bulenox accounts for weekly swings, allowing me to compartmentalize it. Just makes it easier for me personally. Continue To Cut Out Noise: In 2024 I made an effort to reduce my concern with "FinTwit". I believe this contributed to my overall years performance positively. I muted, blocked and unfollowed certain accounts who just seemed to be noise and provide no real value to me. I cut out trading chats for the most part accept a small group of buddies and a few people I stay in contact with, and just focused on me. Its easy to get caught up with the social aspect of trading, because at its core trading is a solo sport. But its also easy for the social aspect to become a distraction. Further Model/Strategy Refining: I have been trading the same general model for many years, but I believe I made some good minor changes to it last year that really improved the overall success I have with it. I really only use two entry models and the same exit model for both, looking for specific criteria which you can see via my posts. Patients is always a big factor in trading, its easy to want to join the hype of a move, but just waiting around for your signature to show and jumping on it is the winning strategy. Refining ones strategy to be more efficient/better should be a yearly goal of every trader.




















