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#70 · Short · closed
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BTCUSDT.P BINANCE

Opened Mon 31 Aug, 11:23 · thesis sealed 2m after the open

Entry62759.3
Size0.307
Stop63185.8
Target61504.9
Risk130.94 USDT
of equity0.54%
R:R2.94
Notional19 267.11 USDT
Result
Exit62287
Net129.58 USDT
R0.99R
Gross145.00 USDT
Fees15.41 USDT
Costs0.080%
Held4h 38m
EndedClosed manually
ClosedMon 31 Aug, 16:01
VerdictFollowed
Chart
Candle data — where these bars came from

392 bars from BINANCE at 5m, captured when the trade closed and kept — this charts the same whether or not the exchange still answers.
Sun 30 Aug, 12:05 to Mon 31 Aug, 20:45

It changes nothing about the trade — your fills, fees and contract size stay BINANCE's — and the chart says where the bars came from.

Timeline

BeforeiWhy you took it, written before you were in it.

  1. Mon 31 Aug · 11:23
  2. Opened 62759.3 · Short · stop 63185.8 · target 61504.9 · logged 2m later

  3. Higher low holding above the level it just broke. Entry on the retest, stop just under it, nothing in the way until the last high.
  4. Plan Trend pullback

AfteriHindsight — kept apart from what you knew at the time.

  1. 16:01
  2. Closed 62287 · closed by hand

  3. Held it without fiddling and it paid. Nothing to change here.
  4. 18:13
  5. Reviewed followed
Rules

Followed every rule that could be answered was kept

Plan rules · Trend pullback 6 kept · 6 in all

EntryiSettled when the trade was saved.

  • Stop loss in place at entry kept · measured Stop at 63185.8.
  • Planned reward at least 2× the risk kept · measured Planned 2.9411× the risk, against 2.
  • Risk no more than 1% of equity kept · measured Risked 0.5392% of equity (24282.32 account), against 1.
  • Waited for the retest kept Your answer.

ManagementiSettled at the close.

  • Never move the stop further away / increase risk kept · measured Never moved.
  • Never pull the target closer in kept · measured Never moved.
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