I just want to thank god, my parents, friends, and family who always believed me, but most of all I really want to thank the Fed. Without your perfectly timed interest cuts, none of this would be possible!!! 😂😂😂

So I had to run an errand real quick, so I set a limit trade before I left just in case price dropped into a demand zone $25 down. Well it did (just barely, as you can see), and for some reason, my take profit didn't activate or it happened so fast I'm not sure, but it ended up being about a $3,000 trade that put me at $53,600. The force was with me today lol

I've been faced with this dilemma many times. Strictly following the rules, I would be using the first green candlestick (denoted in pink) as my supply zone, but in my view, the red candlestick following it is the better option (in red). Am I correct, or is there a reason I should use a green candlestick every time when creating supply zones and red when creating demand zones? Also an unrelated question: With Apex I can trade Monday at 9:30am (Eastern) until Friday at 4pm all hours of the day aside from 4-5pm, correct? Is there a reason to avoid trading at certain times? Obviously the market appears more lively during the NY hours, especially at 9:30-10:30am, but I'm just curious if there something I'm overlooking as to why I shouldn't trade essentially whenever I want during that timeframe. Thanks for the help, you guys!

Hey guys and gals, I did my Superman entry incorrectly a few hours ago. I was stopped out, but thankfully it was early enough that I still played a Jedi entry and made $500. I'm fairly certain I see my mistake, and here I've replayed it with what I should have done. I just want to make sure it's correct so I don't continue bad habits! Green is my 1 hour Demand zone, blue is my Superman zone. If I'd have played it correctly, it would have been a winning trade in my estimation.

I purchased my first Evaluation Account last Friday after a good 3 weeks of practicing. I began trading on Monday, but I wasn't finding good opportunities for Jedi/Superman entries on MES (I prefer staying on MES because it's more precise and I dislike moving back and forth). This continued into Tuesday. Wednesday I followed some advice I saw on here to stay away due to the inflation numbers being published (I ended up winning a good trade on my sim account but what do you do?). Thursday I was getting antsy and entered into a trade I wasn't very confident about. I only took a quarter of the risk ($125) and ended up stopping out. Today I entered a long Superman trade for $500 (used half of my usual risk because I was skiddish), and then a short Jedi using demand from 10 days ago. On the latter, I again wasn't confident with the demand being so old, so I moved my Stop Loss up and took a $300 profit (marked with white line segment). I would've stopped out if I hadn't done this. Is it unadviseable to take trades using such old supply/demand? All in all, I'm up to $50,573 after my first week. I feel pretty good about it. It certainly could have been better, and it could have been worse. Now that I've gotten my feet wet, I hope to trade with more conviction. I imagine being too cautious is better than the alternative, however. A question I do have is, if I'm having trouble finding opportunities on MES, should I look at different markets? Do the entry models work the same or do they need tweaked? What are the pros/cons of your favorite market?