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Orienteering
I had a bad experience with the memes which is really useful for risk management going forwards.. The first few weeks as a whole...
philroycrypto
May 301 min read


Kamikaze Trader!
It's been a while since I did an update and i'm a bit worn out. First of all I'm cutting down on the alcohol, coffee and cigarettes and...
philroycrypto
May 201 min read


Looking for a small retrace
There's been relentless strength but I'm dabbling with some very small shorts and plan to close them no later than Sunday afternoon--...
philroycrypto
May 91 min read


Tricky breakout to call
After the last pump I was convinced that we'd have a correction. However, the RSI dropped from overbought down to some low levels whilst...
philroycrypto
May 81 min read


Hanging in, breakout happening
Had a hairy day yesterday with my quant calling for a possible dip and some dire price action after lunch. Thankfully, there have been no...
philroycrypto
May 11 min read


Two steps forward, one back
I might leave the meme coins alone with the USDT leverage trades after some crazy price action with POPCAT last night. It basically ran...
philroycrypto
Apr 291 min read


Popping while it's hot
The anticipated pullback didn't happen during last week but my few short positions yielded small gains. I did miss the dip to 92k on...
philroycrypto
Apr 281 min read


Swinging both ways
Took some good profits on the way up and near the top of that last move for the key assets along with some meme coin longs for USDT. I'm...
philroycrypto
Apr 241 min read


Showing up
Been holding a few trades for over a week and we got the pump we needed in the Asia session last night and overcame some of the fees on...
philroycrypto
Apr 211 min read


Adjustments
It's been a roller coaster week in it's own way, maintaining a number of trades for better or worse and after being underwater for a day...
philroycrypto
Apr 181 min read


Day tripping
I gave back some profits after the Trump tariff pause announcement, so i've doubled down on taking profits early. The account is doing...
philroycrypto
Apr 121 min read


Volatility spiking
Big down moves with the tariff announcements - we were mostly sat out and took a small hit on BTC & SOL just before the move. Managed to...
philroycrypto
Apr 91 min read


Re-grouping
So, as we said last week the Alpha play would have been to sit things out from Tuesday afternoon and jump in again on Monday morning, but...
philroycrypto
Apr 11 min read


I'd add more margin if i could
It's useful to have a think about sentiment along the way. I foresaw that BTC might dip and started to build a position on the way down,...
philroycrypto
Mar 291 min read


Limit orders
I took a stop loss on the AVAX after the wedge broke downwards rather than upwards and had added a PEPE position for good measure, but it...
philroycrypto
Mar 282 min read


End of week plans
Had an ugly dip yesterday and i'd stayed up too late on Tuesday night without a clear plan and clear thought processes. Took a stop loss...
philroycrypto
Mar 271 min read


Tuesday activity
I'd been looking for some low time frame consolidation and before bed last night I added some limit orders on BTC, ETH & SOL at more or...
philroycrypto
Mar 251 min read


Manual trade tracking
Managed to get some good enough entries on BTC, ETH & SOL yesterday afternoon which fared well overnight. There could be an issue with...
philroycrypto
Mar 241 min read


New week testing the market
With a new week on the horizon and a general bullish trend anticipated after our recent lows I've risked 1 R in a position on BTC, ETH &...
philroycrypto
Mar 231 min read


Discretionary Trading
Still working through Robert Carver's book and one of the things I've got from the focus on Systematic trading is that I don't want to...
philroycrypto
Mar 212 min read
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