COIN DAYS

🗓 #PnLD: 04.05.25
💵 Deposit: 47.30$
📊 Profit: +3.25
🧮 Cashback: +0.40
↗️ Growth: 8.36%

The best trading day in the last 3 weeks — and it’s not even about the money. Yes, I made +8% on the deposit, but the main thing is how I executed.

Today I traded just like yesterday: I simply opened the most active instruments. Today these were: BR, $MEMEFI, $AVA , AIOT, $LAYER .

How the trading went: I opened the most active coins in 4 order books, locally marked the levels, trends — and that’s it. I sat, did my own things, while the order books were opened in the background on the second monitor. As soon as there was activity — I immediately saw it and entered on rebounds or breakouts.

On each instrument, there are strong movements from time to time, and today I handled them all well.
There were only 4 stop-losses — and even then, those were moments when I entered one instrument, but the movement started in another. The deposit was not enough, so I had to close the loss and enter where the movement started.

That’s it: without fuss, without random trades. Activity appeared — I was quick, I took it. I was slow — I sit and wait. Such movements happen everywhere. I currently have 4 order books open, and I feel comfortable working in this mode.

🗓 #PnLD: 03.05.25
💵 Deposit: 43.65$
📊 Profit: +2.77
🧮 Cashback: +1.07
↗️ Increase: 9.65%

In the first 15 minutes on BR, I made +10% on the deposit, but then lost it on STO and AIOT. Once again, I am convinced: it's not necessary to trade all day — I reached my daily target, closed the terminal, and left. And it doesn't matter that I did it in 10 minutes. Of course, I want to continue, but trading is only worthwhile when there is activity. And there was none anymore.

After 6 hours, I still managed to end up in the positive, although less than I initially had. But there are good moments: I worked through different setups, confidently caught rebounds, broke through slopes, and a couple of level breaks — I gained good practical experience.

Still, I do well with active coins. However, situations where you need to wait a long time to then see false breakouts — are not for me.

Overall, considering the cashback, today resulted in +9.65% on the deposit, and net — about +7.15%. This is an excellent result that I previously underestimated. But I will write about this in a separate post.

🗓 #PnLD: 02.05.25
💵 Deposit: 39.77$
📊 Profit: +4.52
🧮 Cashback: +2.27
↗️ Growth: 20.59%

A boring day in terms of trading. Last night I tried to work on $VIRTUAL — I hit two stop losses and moved on to $AIXBT . There, the story repeated itself, and I ended my trading.
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Already in the morning, I saw growth for $STO — it was listed on Binance today. I managed to gather some volatility and work on some local levels. At first, I made a profit, then a series of stop losses followed, and in the end, I lost all my profit and went into the negative.
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Next, I increased the leverage to 11x. When activity appeared — I caught a couple of good movements, came out in the positive, and stopped.
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Still, I am managing to gather volatility on active coins pretty well. However, I have a problem with selecting tools for the watchlist — the same formations appear everywhere, and they come out simultaneously. I simply don't have enough deposit to enter 2–3 instruments at once.
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I need to look more at higher timeframes — on the minute chart, good movements are only with active top-growing coins. The rest is just sawtooth.
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TMM states that I managed to earn +18.11% for the day. Cool! It's a pity that it's not on a good deposit. But for now, I need to gain experience — everything will come. The main thing is that the potential is visible.

🗓 #PnLD: 01.05.25
💵 Deposit: 32.98$
📊 Profit: -6.16
🧮 Cashback: +0.39
↗️ Growth: -14.87%

Trader's Day: setups were there, but the result was not
Today, I managed to select 4 instruments: $BSW , $VIRTUAL , $S , CHILLGUY.

The start was energetic:

— Stop on BSW — the incline didn’t give.
— Breakout on VIRTUAL: +1.2%
— Cascade on the same: another +1.25%
— Re-entry into BSW and SUSDT — both in the red
— Rebound on BSW: +0.94%

Result — about +4% profit at the start.

Then — the classic: wanted to trade further, but the market quieted down.
Jumped into CHILLGUY, breakout, pullback, second wave — -5.1%.
Moved to another order book — spent 3 hours in the trade, exited at break-even.

Next — long on VIRTUAL almost at the highs. Losses on it ~1%. Left, returned — one of the instruments (SUSDT) would have given +7%, but I exited at break-even, VIRTUAL was stuck in the trade for 9 hours and I took a loss of -4%. Closed before the report, and as luck would have it — 20 minutes later the price rose to break-even 😅

Final trade: MOVE — a drop of 20% after delisting from Coinbase. First trade at break-even, second — hit the stop.

Conclusions:
— Setups were there, notifications were set, mistakes are clear.
— The market is dead — you can’t trade “just like that”.
— The most disappointing thing — not the loss, but that I sat for 9 hours for -4%, and after closing the price went up.

🗓 #PnLD: 30.04.25
💵 Deposit: 31.45$
📊 Profit: +4.39
🧮 Cashback: +0.09
↗️ Growth: +16.25%

⏱ 109 seconds = +12.27% to the deposit

Today I finally managed to stop. I made a couple of trades on $ALPACA during the volatility collection — in total, it took 1.5 minutes, +12%, and I went to rest. Such moments over the past 2 weeks have happened at least 3 times, but only today did I not let my emotions pull me into the casino.

Scalping — really rules.

Forget about trends, for scalpers, only: volatility, news, chaos matter. And in crypto, there’s plenty of that every day.

- Yesterday $ALPACA dropped by -70%,
- And today it’s already +700%.

It’s a different world, a separate reality.

For boosting the deposit — scalping is the best start. Later — yes, intraday, so as not to shake the order book with volumes. But in the early stages — it’s irreplaceable.

The market is tough:
Yesterday one experienced trader lost $66k, Today another fool — 295k$ just because he received money undeservedly dropped from "temoks". The market will take back everything from such people, that’s the law.

Also, everything that came in over the month from referral commissions about 10$ will be added tomorrow to the trading deposit. I added at the end of the video how the coin's order book compressed almost by 5% and you don’t even have time to scroll through.

🗓 #PnLD: 29.04.25
💵 Deposit: 27.02$
📊 Profit: -45.25
🧮 Cashback: +5.10
↗️ Growth: -59.77%

I corrected myself — and stepped on the same rake again.
I took a couple of coins, but saw activity on SIGN, jumped in — started to collect volatility. Everything was going well: in the first 10 trades, I made +9% on the deposit.

But then, as usual, I couldn't stop. At some point, all these instruments started moving in ways I no longer understood. I hit a series of stop losses, and my margin ran out. I increased the leverage to x10 and continued to fight back.

I caught two slippages of -2.5%, and then the tilt began.
In principle, I explained and showed everything in the video:
- did not stop trading
- increased volumes
- overtraded and lost more than I should have
- did not check technical details: in the personal account, the token was set to x20 instead of the usual leverage.

There was also an unpleasant moment: the price made a rise of +4%, the take profit worked, but the diary recorded only +0.2%. This is the first time I've encountered this.

I wanted to top up the deposit — but changed my mind.
My goal is to learn to work out setups, control emotions, and trade with discipline. So the remaining 25$ is enough to develop all of this.

🗓 #PnLD: 28.04.25
💵 Deposit: 67.17$
📊 Profit: +0.05
🧮 Cashback: +0.92
↗️ Growth: 1.47%

Traded today to break even, but due to the commission, almost $1 will come back. I didn't have much time for trading — I only worked on two instruments: $DEEP and $ZEREBRO. There were a couple of local breakouts — if you can even call them that: everything was forming on the minute chart. The other trades were closed either at breakeven or by stop-losses.

It's true what they say in all the podcasts — it's very difficult to trade when you have a life, work, training, and a bunch of projects going on at the same time. Trading is not something you can do for a couple of hours a day between other tasks. Of course, there is a chance that something will work out, but in reality, you need a full day and complete focus.

At least for me, it's not going very well to combine a bunch of projects, trading, training, and all the other things. Then I either lack focus or strength. I will try to deliberately allocate several hours tomorrow, to work wisely, without haste.

🗓 #PnLD: 26.04.25
💵 Deposit: 64.83$
📊 Profit: +4.98
🧮 Cashback: +6.63
↗️ Growth: 21.82%

It is important to know when to stop.
You need to set a daily goal in advance: earned 5–10% — close the terminal.

Today I traded ALPACA all day.
It continues to be pumped: in a week, the growth was about 700% — an incredible case. And all this against the backdrop of news about the delisting of this token.

In the morning, I made +14% on the deposit, but later I stopped understanding what was happening in the market. I was stopped out many times again. As a result, I not only lost all my profit but also went into the red by 10%. Only closer to night did I recover and went into profit (and a nice cashback will also come in). A beautiful "Christmas tree" was formed.

About funding.
You know that funding usually occurs every 4–8 hours, right? Today I noticed that on ALPACA funding is recalculated every hour, and the rate is 2%! Can you imagine how much that is? I got caught twice: once I lost -1.88$, and the second time I gained +1.8$. In the end, I tried to exit the position before the recalculation.

I also worked on ZERRBRO for the breakout of the incline.
But I messed up — entered in the middle of the movement, and I was pulled back by 4%. I closed the trade at a loss. Then I took two shorts on the breakout of local levels and came out with a micro-profit.

🗓 #PnLD: 25.04.25
💵 Deposit: 53.21$
📊 Profit: -72.79
🧮 Cashback: +5.10
↗️ Growth: -54.73%

Of course, one can blame the market makers who pumped ALPACA by 400+%, but to be honest — I lost control and started gambling.

In short: I entered a position with just 50$ (with leverage ×3 — that's 17$ margin), trying to catch a pullback. I didn't set a stop. At one point it reached –8$, but I didn't close — “you'll lose your profit overnight.” The result — almost liquidation, but I added more margin, and the loss grew to –15$. My thoughts were: “If we pull back to –8$, I'll close.” But instead, we grew another 35%, and I averaged down an additional 50$.

In the end, the position was at stake — 46$, while the loss was already 30$. I was waiting for a pullback but eventually closed at –27$. Then came the emotions. It was no longer possible to just turn off the terminal. I increased the volume to 300$, turned on auto-stop, and tried to catch a pullback. But the market makers had other plans — I was just torn apart by a series of stops. I lost all the profit for the week — 29$, and then the deposit started going into the negative.

Remaining: 100$ → 90$ → 80$ → 69.31$ — and I realized: I just started gambling. Now I'll quickly take 0.69$ to 70$ and go rest. In the end, I lost another 10$, leaving 60$ — and only then did I walk away from the terminal. I lay down, came back... I continued to short — and lost another 12$. Overall, I was left with 48.10$.

🗓 #PnLD: 24.04.25
💵 Deposit: 123.02$
📊 Profit: -1.22
🧮 Cashback: +1.66
↗️ Growth: -0.07%

From 13:30 to 18:00 — one green trade. In the evening, I started trading $ALPACA — it rose by 100%, and I was able to gather volatility well. In total: only 3 stop losses, the rest — break-even or in profit.

By the end of the day, the result was beautiful — +15$. I was already about to finish trading, but I noticed a rise. I decided to enter the last trade with half the leverage. Yes, the movements were good — up to 9%, but the volume was small, so it was easier psychologically.

Then there was an interesting moment — funding. I didn't pay much attention to it, and at the moment $ALPACA dropped by 20%, and I was already down -10$. What did I do? Of course, I averaged down and added another half leverage. The drawdown reached -31$, I sat in the trade for almost 3 hours, thinking: "Why didn't you close at a loss of 7$?" During that time, I could have recovered the loss — the opportunity was there.

I am only glad about one thing — how cool it is to scalp. Imagine: in a week I made almost +70% on the deposit. Yes, then I lost it, but those are questions only for me. Even with little experience in scalping, with a lot of mistakes — I consistently make 5–15% a day. Add cashback and discipline to this, and everyone will see results.

In the end, the day closed with a loss of -1.22$ — almost all recovered.

🗓 #PnLD: 23.04.25
💵 Deposit: 122.93$
📊 Profit: +14.33
🧮 Cashback: +1.95
↗️ Growth: +15.26%

Today I wanted to approach trading responsibly — to select a list of coins to work with. In the end, I saw the first active one — $ZEREBRO, which rose by 150%, and I forgot about the list.

I entered on a breakout, didn't manage to secure the profit, and it dropped to zero.
I just started to set a stop-loss, and it crashed badly. It became -5$, I averaged down, there was a chance to close at -0.5$, but at such moments, the thought arises: "what if we go into profit now?" — in the end, it retraced again. I spent 1 hour and 40 minutes in the trade, at the peak it was -18$, but I was forgiven again, I came out in profit, and after that, there was a good movement.

What can be learned from today:
- I move the stop-loss too early, because of this I miss good movements
- Make fewer trades but of higher quality
- Immediately cover losses, do not average down
- Do not enter too early
- Do not chase after new highs
- Do not move the take profit
- Select more instruments for the watchlist
- Be sure to manually cover the position, like with Ethereum — there was a breakout, I closed at breakeven, but just didn't manage to.
- Pay close attention to the keys — there were 3 stop-outs due to misclicks
- MUST have a news tab, today Trump said something and it broke all my levels

🗓 #PnLD: 22.04.25
💵 Deposit: 106.65$
📊 Profit: +4.19
🧮 Cashback: +0.39
↗️ Growth: +4.49%

After the profit drain and analysis of mistakes last week.
I do not consider Monday — there were only two trades: one in profit, one in loss. In total: +0.15$. I don't see the point in making a report for that day.

Tuesday was excellent in every way. I made a total of 8 trades — all closed either in profit or at breakeven. The entries were deliberate and based on reasons, not just random. I saved almost all the trade videos, except for one. I haven't decided yet how to format this into a video, but I already have a couple of ideas.

Points that need improvement:

- I didn't select the instruments in advance — I just opened the most active ones. I traded $BTC and $POPCAT.
- I generally set stop-losses; if I didn't set them, I closed manually, but sometimes I thought about moving them and not closing.
- I move the stop to breakeven too early. Because of this, the price knocks me out with a small profit, although I could have taken a good movement.

▫️ Results of the trading week Ch2

▫️ Trader's diary and analysis. It's important to document and analyze each session.

- Install ShadowPlay or OBS
- Record videos of your trades
- Review trades after the session

Screenshots in TMM are good, but videos provide much more understanding. This way you can track impulses, emotions, mistakes, and recurring patterns.

▫️ About trading

- Enter and exit in parts — this gives flexibility and control over the position
- Always set a stop-loss. Better to have an automatic one than none, even if there’s sometimes slippage
- Don’t catch falling knives — wait for a slowdown or reversal
- Don’t trade just for the sake of trading
- Don’t break your own rules

Trading is an endurance game. Over the long haul, the one who maintains discipline will win.

▫️ The first stage — getting used to it. My main task right now:

- Get used to the chart
- Develop muscle memory
- Improve visual analysis
- Test strategies
- Control emotions

Sometimes, honestly, I just want to give it all up.
But — that's the path. The trader’s path is the path of a warrior.
You want to jump into battle and start earning immediately, but without a foundation, it's impossible. The more time you invest in preparation, the faster you will start moving forward.

🗓 #PnLW: 14-20.04.25
💵 Deposit: 102.07$
📊 Profit: +0.37
🧮 Cashback: +0.31
↗️ Growth: +0.67%

▫️ Trading Week Results Part 1

The week started confidently, but in the end, I lost -31.97$ in profit, although it says $48.85 which considers some three trades from April 4 and 6 that I removed. Despite this, I believe it was a good start — I gained a lot of experience and made important conclusions for myself:

▫️ Preparation is the key to results

Before each trading session, everything must be ready:
- Configured terminal
- Hotkeys
- Order books and workspaces
- Normal pings
- News channels and services

In the moment, you should not be distracted by technical details — all of this needs to be set up in advance, so you can focus solely on trading and see all the information; one of the losses was because I didn't read the news, even though it would have taken a couple of seconds.

▫️ Trading strategy
Without a clear strategy — you are just a player. You need to write down in advance:

- Setups
- Volumes
- Risks
- Leverage
- Action algorithms in different scenarios

This is the most challenging part, I still don't have a fully developed trading system — mainly due to the lack of live examples and cases from other traders.

🗓 #PnLD: 19-20.04.25
💵 Deposit: 102.07$
📊 Profit: +0.37
🧮 Cashback: +0.31
↗️ Growth: +0.67%

I hardly traded on Saturday and Sunday — I was inactive.
There were a couple of attempts to gather volatility on other instruments, but in the end — just pennies, not worth attention.

Honestly, it's tough — writing from the future about past days. Not much is remembered, especially if I didn't keep accurate notes. Nevertheless, after the last drawdown, I did important work: I set up the terminal, created a new connection, and started trading more responsibly.

However, I haven't written down the trading system yet — it's a complicated process. The main hurdle is that I don't fully understand all the existing strategies, let alone how to properly compose and adapt them for myself. This is something that I will need to study deeply in the near future.

The most important thing is — the deposit has not been lost. It is still in the positive, even if only by $2, but that's already a victory. I will wake up and summarize the week, record my thoughts, and continue working.

🗓 #PnLD: 18.04.25
💵 Deposit: 101.19$
📊 Profit: -12.80
🧮 Cashback: +0.62
↗️ Growth: -10.74%

The day started normally — I calmly got into the rhythm. I continued to work with the coin $OM , which wouldn't let me go. This time I took previous mistakes into account: I reduced the volumes, reconsidered my approach to entries and exits.

I realized an important point — it's better to enter and exit in parts.
This way, I can average down during a drawdown and take more profit when locking in. This approach started to bear fruit — everything was going steadily... until I made a serious mistake.

I saw a sharp rise, a breakout of previous levels, and consolidation. I thought we would go long with the update of higher levels,
I entered with the first part, the price went even higher — I added the second part on the drop, and for the first time in a week, I didn't set a stop.

This cost me a lot. The price started to drop significantly, and the loss grew. There was hope that it would "release", but I didn't add the third part and after 6 hours, I decided to manually lock in the loss.

This decision saved the deposit — later the coin dropped by another -18%. It turned out that the sharp movement was triggered by news on Twitter, which I didn’t verify or read in advance. This was my key mistake.

🗓 #PnLD: 17.04.25
💵 Deposit: 113.37$
📊 Profit: -23.56
🧮 Cashback: +2.57
↗️ Growth: -15.62%

April 17. Started trading at 00:43, finished at 08:40. The instrument is still the same — $OM , but the activity on the coin has dropped, and I completely stopped understanding the logic of the movements.

Problems began: pings in the terminal, frequent stop losses being hit, sometimes just gambling, and most importantly — I did not reduce volumes despite a series of losing trades.

I realized in time and changed the auto stop to 0.9% so that taking slippage into account, it would trigger at the right amount. As a result — a new series of stop losses and another losing day.

Perhaps this was one of those moments when it would have been better to just stop instead of trying to pull the day out of the negative, without having either the energy or the conditions for normal trading.

🗓 #PnLD: 16.04.25
💵 Deposit: 134.36$
📊 Profit: -17.5
🧮 Cashback: +11.35
↗️ Growth: -4.38%

April 16. I went to bed only at 07:30 after the previous session, and by 14:50 I was back at the terminal. The instrument — the same $OM .

What do I remember from this day? Well, essentially, nothing. The third day in a row — severe lack of sleep, disrupted schedule, complete loss of concentration. My head is not working, my hands press buttons automatically. A series of stop losses completely threw me off track.

By 17:33 I gathered my willpower and closed the terminal. I just realized that in such a state it's better not to trade at all.

The day closed with a loss of -17.5$, but the situation was slightly softened by the cashback — 11.35$ was returned.

🗓 #PnLD: 15.04.25
💵 Deposit: 140.51$
📊 Profit: -7.14
🧮 Cashback: +11.40
↗️ Growth: +3.13%

Started trading on the 15th at 20:00, finished at 06:30. The coin is still the same — $OM . Overall, the day was going well — I closed at +15$, but closer to midnight, I hit an unpleasant streak of stop losses, and in the end, the day finished at -7.14$.

However, thanks to a large number of trades and increased volume, the cashback returned a whopping +11.40$. And despite the negative result from the session, the day ultimately turned out positive. That's why I always say: for a scalper, a 35% cashback from VATAGA is a must-have. It really saves you in tough moments.

As for the rest — there’s not much to highlight. At first, I was pleased that I had three consecutive days in the green. Then I got upset due to the loss. And then I was happy again when I realized that thanks to the cashback, I still closed the day in the green.