The Trading Plan
Enfocado Capital
Audacious Goal
90% Goal: Earn >42R Per Month
50% Goal: Earn >100R in a month
10% Goal: Earn >200R in a month
Discipline
Daily Setup before entering any trades
Daily Workout
Trade systems at 95% efficiency
Accountability
I share my daily plan before entering the market and share my tracker publicly after EOD
Trade Routine
Set yourself up for success by following a proven routine to put you in peak performance mindset. ��--Wake Up and slow roll with Dexter
-Deep Breathing and review schedule + Dropoff
-Goals Visualization and Meditation
-Ice bath, exercise and hike/run
-Read Trading Plan
-Write up and share my plan for ES daytrading
-At end of trading day update Tracker
-share notes or insights from the day
My Why
Why do I trade?
My commitment to follow my trading plan
I commit to follow my plan 100% because I know that my plan PROVES trading will allow me to live this life
What does that look like?
Health and longevity
Growing a healthy family
Can change the weather at a moments notice
Forever Home
Weekends at the Mountain Home
FLying private to the beach home
Assets paying for everything
Visualize It
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Goals
SMART Goals framework�Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic, Time Related��Goal - Follow my trading plan 100% and make no mistakes this month
What will the results be?
Market Beliefs
You don’t trade the market, you trade your beliefs about the market.
-I can make a very large amount of money trading�-The market can do anything at any time�-The market will do similar things most of the time, pattern recognition and statistics are my tools�-Markets trend 20% of the time and mean revert 80%�-Adding to positions and going for bigger targets while trailing is a major edge in trend conditions (HTF traders)�-Adding to positions and trail stopping is a major edge�-Position sizing is the biggest edge�-My plan proves success is inevitable if I follow my plan 100%�-10 trades = sporadic results �-100 trades = smooth results�-1000 trades = predicted results
Trading Edge
Markets mean revert most often
Trades
Target >42R per month day trading
Target 4R per month Swing Trading
Session and Assets
US session 120 minutes after open
Asia session
ES, NQ,
When to avoid
Fed Rate Decision (FOMC, NFP, CPI/PPI) or KNOWN market moving events
If you can’t enter the trade because position sizing is too far, ie it would require more than the 1% risk to trade even one contract (Remember Covid Crash?)
I have other obligations that would not let me focus on trading (travel, meetings, family, sick)
Strong Trend in opposite direction (implement trend trade)
Trade Management
Have precise rules for how to exit your trade once profitable. �Example…
ENTER EVERY TRADE INTO MY JOURNAL
Move stop to Break Even +.1R at +1R
Take profit at profit target (via asset)�Add to positions when they are moving with momentum and trail stop vs profit target
Very infrequently there will be incredible relative strength where not a single candle goes against you, in this instance trail stop is fine ensuring you know your intraday drawdown levels and do not breach them (this happens 1/40 trades on average)
Those trades are rare, you can luck in to them, but don’t optimize for them
Risk Management
This will be determined by your backtest and the risk parameters of the prop firm.
I want to be in a position that if I had 15 losing trades in a row I can continue on
TAKE EVERY TRADE
Keep your mind sharp, if I ever feel off, step away and backtest
Post Trading Routine
Keep track of mistakes, ideas, insights, new trade ideas and notes on the trading day and do things to separate from the markets. Example…
EOD update tracker, journal, screenshots, notes�Go for trail run/hike for 1-2 hours�Write/read/think for 30-60 minutes�Wind down and set myself up for a good night sleep, the next trading day begins the evening before
Keep a Dashboard
Keep track of your current trading and how it compares to your backtest. Example…
| Model | Aug 2023 |
Win Rate% | 47% | 42.65% |
Avg Win in R | 1.43 | 1.17 |
Avg Loss in R | -.88 | -.76 |
Avg # trades day | 5 | 14 |
#winners | 470 | 29 |
#losers | 355 | 34 |
Profit Factor | 1.62 | 1.50 |
Expectancy | .35 | .11 |
Metrics | Scalpy Live Results | Curvy Model | Curvy Live |
Total # Trades | 2780 | 1009 | 1434 |
Gain to Pain | .59 | 1.14 | 1.90 |
Profit Factor | 1.33 | 1.62 | 1.44 |
Monthly R returns | 17R | 64R | 46R |
Annual R returns | 219R | 806R | 585R |
50bps Risk $1M | $3,255,802 | $2,035,453 | $2,806,849.77 |
% Returns 50bps | 325.58% | 203.55% | 280.68% |
Max Drawdown | -3.43% | -9.29% | -8.39% |
Markets | EURUSD | GC, SI, NG, CL, ES, NQ, RTY, ZC, TN, UB, | ES, NQ, RTY, ZC, ZW, ZS, SI, GC, CL, ES, ZB, ZN, ZF, ZT, UB, TN, 6E, 6B, 6J, 6C, 6A, AAPL, TSLA, PYPL |
Strategy | Systematic | Systematic | Systematic + discretion |
Curvy short setup
After initial sell off there was a microgap touch and test before dropping lower
Market intervention by BOJ in early trading
This is why we use stops