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Just be happy it wasn’t a loss. That would’ve felt way worse. Don’t let the FOMO take over in the future. A trade is always different in hindsight

dude this is just day trading. You hit your target, be happy. Earlier this year I sold 500 shares of AMD for a $1k profit at $202. Now it's $500+. Am I butt hurt about it? Nope. Only b/c same thing has happened dozens and dozens of times over the past decade.

Don't beat yourself up, bro. Similar thing happened to me today. Long at 4415, TP at 4425. Price continued to 4455 before reversing. Its happened plenty of times. I dont look at them as lost opportunities any more. Did I stick to my rules? Yes. Did I hit TP? Yes. That's a win. I don't care if price rallies to ATH today. I got in, got out. I was successful.

There’s always another trade. That’s the idea

The market will give you more opportunities to make money.

Everything looks greener in retrospect. In the moment, there is no way you could have known what was going to happen. Price very well could have gone the other way, and you'd be glad you didn't have any positions opened.

What i do is after it hits my TP. I **ALWAYS close the charts** if i am done with that day. Ofc it depends on strategy but most people will have only 1-3 trades a day

Ask yourself: Do you want to consistently hit a 1:2 or 1:3 risk-to-reward (whatever it's based on your strategy), or Do you want to hold for the home runs that probably happen only 2–3 times out of 10? You have to make a choice. Remember, there is always a trade-off with any approach. No approach is perfect. A consistent 1:2 or 1:3 approach will likely play out around 6–7 times out of 10, giving you steady TPs and smoother psychology, while the home-run approach might only hit 2–3 times out of 10, meaning a lot more stop-losses and breakevens. Which one do you favor, and which one actually works for your psychology? You can’t realistically catch both consistent 1:2/1:3s and home runs at the same time. It’s either this or that. There is always a TRADE OFF.

based on your setup, you never would've put yourself anywhere close to holding through that. so why stress yourself out making up problems in the past that never would've happened?

I missed this waterfall too. Could've/would've gotten another 400-$800 in account based on my typical sizing. But I already +$400ish so can't complain. Just another day in trading

I agree with the others. When u think “ I could have got more” you get greedy the next time and overall lose more. The market give you a winning day don’t ask for more

either learn how to take partials or take 80-90% of your cons off and leave one for areas of interest, levels, whole psych numbers, etc. if you find that trades continue going your ways after tp a lot of the time.

It wasn't a loser. On to the next one

Then don’t set a hard target but trail your stop. Or don’t wine about your hard stop. The trade worked. If you trade all your life you gonna see this thousands of times.

You won. Can you keep a runner after locking in profits?

everyone has 20-20 vision when they look at the history but you don't know if the line is going to trend up or down or chop the whole day. If you did you'll be a billionaire. What you can do for the future is trail your position and try to capitalize which a lot of traders end up doing. Some of the major brokers have a feature called automatic trailing stop loss which you can add to your position and it'll move it along with the trade until it gets hit so you can go take your nap or have dinner or go out and play and the trade will keep on playing automatically as the profit keeps on stacking up or until a pull back hits the stop. Then got other traders with massive $$$$ do it manually with a lot of leverage and they are actively managing that trailing stop loss in real time giving the trade room to breath. It's another form of trading. Ur not going to capture all the big moves but in any given day they can be a few big moves that can really make your day if you can hop onto it.

Profit is profit. And hindsight is 20/20. But I would look for something more concrete than "trade covered previous loses hence I close it" as an exit rule.

FOMO and not having a hard stop loss and a hard take profit ends accounts. Just be happy that you made some money. I've blown up way too many accounts (albeit small ones) on FOMO and not sticking to my take profits and stop losses.

Good scalp!

You sound like you're still results oriented as opposed to quality of the trade oriented. Evident by how your emphasis is on money,  and nott the trade. And what in the fuck are you doing going and taking a nap while you're in a trade?