March was my best month ever in terms on PnL and consistency as far as following my rules. On top of that the market was perfect for my value rotation strategy.
Fast forward to April and I started getting wrecked. Price expansion, very little value rotation, + I was slow to stop trading mean reversion in a strong trend. I also just made several bonehead mistakes and broke my rules on half those red days. And even with all that still manage to barely be in profit.
The one saving grace is that I've committed to a 5% DLL and I have NinjaTrader lock my account until the next day. I think this single guard rail is the only reason i'm still in profit this month. It's very hard for me to take 1 trade a day, lose, and move on but that's what i'm trying my best to accomplish these days. Although i took a few steps back this month after thinking I had it all figured out in March.
These are small accounts and March was aggressive risking 10% to make 20% in a prop account. April I dialed it back because I'm using a live account, risking 5% to make 10%.
Only sharing because keeping my losing days smaller than my winning days and setting up safe guards for tilt have been the only things that work for my addictive personality. Hope this helps someone.