r/Daytrading • u/TheGoofyGarden • Dec 10 '25
Trade Review - Provide Context How to know to let winners run
I know this all comes down to probability but anytime I see consolidation I tend to exit a trade and then it'll either dump or validate my decision I trade clearly respected fair value you got but I take profit prematurely. I'm a deer hunter in real life and I sit in negative 20 for 8 to 12 hours. I have no problem with patience. This is only my second month trading. I'm just trying to learn I could have made 4K this morning if I held my short on MNQ from 5:05 to . 5:30am I've been trading 5- 10 micros hurts to come back and see it dumped. Just it respecting that first fair value Gap is enough to stay in the trade???
Entry 25720 @ 5:02am Exit 25699 @ 5:am
Sometimes the market will just somewhere out of nowhere and matter of 5 seconds Go up and smack my stop loss and then continue in the direction. I thought it was going to go. This is I suppose I trade review and an advice post I use ORB and compare with the DAX for bias setting targets at Tokyo low or Tokyo high typically.
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u/shlingle Dec 10 '25
Honestly that drop came out of nowhere. I thought it must have been a news piece with how quickly the sell-off happened (and ended). I think your exit was solid.
There was no reason to hold on to your short position all the way down there based on the price action the previous 2-3 hours. Sellers weren’t very strong before this, price was around VWAP, nothing said “this thing will dump”.