Trade Review
MNQ1! Long — 2026-02-12
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Loss · Average Loss·RAS 76%
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Trade Review
📊 Trade 1 – NQ Buy (Counter-Trend Attempt) Setup
- ▸5m bullish FVG: 25,344–25,365
- ▸High of day swept → 25,420
- ▸Retrace into FVG midpoint
- ▸Attempted continuation to weekly high Entry
- ▸Long 25,355
- ▸Stop 25,315 (40 pts)
- ▸Target 25,465 (3R) Issue You attempted to front-run the larger volatility expansion. VIX was already accelerating into HTF liquidity. That was not a retracement environment — that was expansion. This was the wrong trade contextually. You were trading: “We should bounce first.” But the tape was saying: “We are repricing aggressively.” Loss:
- ▸~[amount redacted]in 150K
- ▸~[amount redacted]in one 300K
- ▸Contained because copy trader malfunction limited exposure That malfunction actually protected you.
Setup Tags
VIX Gap FailureVIX Inverse Correlation+BOS+FVG+IFVG+IFVG MM SetupLTF
Execution Quality
Early
Emotions
FOMOPatient
Rule Adherence Scorecard
Setup Grade—
RAS Score7.6/10 · 76%
| Narrative | 9/10▼ |
| Setup | 7/10▼ |
| Entry | 7/10▼ |
| Risk | 8/10▼ |
| Sizing | 7/10▼ |
| Management | 8/10▼ |
| Time | 7/10▼ |
| Emotions | 8/10▼ |
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