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NVDA: Stick with technicals and mind the candles

NVDA trade plan

The idea was for the price to bounce from MA20. It did on June 1st but I didn't notice the bearish candle the following day. I guess my judgement was clouded by Nvidia's JH's keynote speech in Taiwan. Too much speculation lead to a miscalculation on my part.

I should have sold on the black reversal candle with a long wick.

Trade Plan

May 18: Watch daily MA20 support

Entry: 219.29 (May 21) - Small margin with MA20 - Small margin with major TSL

Entry 2: 214.7x (May 26) - Expecting MA20 bounce

Entry 3: 215.8 (white candle in first 30 mins of trading + bullish engulfing candle) (May 29)

Entry 4: 216.68 (Go trade, 8.97 shares)

TP: Box top formation

Notes:

May 29: - 15 min candle broke MA100

June 1: - Nvidia JH keynote speech in Taiwan looks like to be a catalyst. (Why is this here???) - Day 0 of box top. - ~6% price increase with good volume.

June 2-4: - No notes

Exit

June 5 - Sold EOD on long black candle. - Also today was the one of the longest black candles of NASDAQ after a long time.

NVDA trade plan

Mind the candles EVERYDAY! Watch out for reversals!

5016 (JX Advanced Metal Corp): A bet on the weekly MA

5016 trade plan

Last May 20 I noticed a big pull back with a potential weekly MA20 support. I bet on candle-0 of that MA support line hoping for a good price action the following week.

5016 trade plan

Monday came and the reality looked to be going the opposite way.

Price action was too slow. Then I realized I never looked at the RSI level before entering.

This was also my first time buying below MA50.

Concluded capital is better elsewhere.

Create case study for later but this looks to be a successful exit after today's daily MA100 breakdown.

Check the daily RSI even when betting on weekly!

APLD: Bought on weak signals

APLD cut loss

This one hurt and hit differently because it was the first trade I executed with my new broker.

There's nothing much to say here since there weren't clear buy signals to begin with.

Another loss to be charged to experience!

Always have a trade plan!

MYNLD: Buy on brain fart

MYNLD trade plan

Honestly, I don't know what got into me buying this stock. Perhaps it was the hype seeing the price at a very low price but with the same growth potential as ICT. Add to that I just exited my ICT trade so I was eager of entering the market again. But where's the TA in that?

Don't rush to re-enter the market. Chill, bruh!

SMFG (8316): A loss to the bears

ICT trade plan

My entry here was on spot. The idea was for the price to bounce back from EMA9.

EMA9 was also close to MA20 so it could act as another support level. Delta between these two lines was about 3.7% so that's another 1.3% headroom from the latter.

13 candles later the price potential profit reached 13.3%. Realistically, I could have secured my profit on the next two lower candles but obviously that didn't happen. If it did, that could still have been a profit of 5.8%.

The takeaway: Exit on box formation

Restarting the journey

There are a handful of things I could do at home during this golden week, but among all of them, I am choosing have this trading journal setup for good.

I've had multiple trading journals in the past. I've hosted one on blogspot, another one on wordpress, and I also used to keep my handy-dandy, simple and basic, no frills, Google Sheets that kept track of my trades. I've had my ups and downs in trading but I've never really been consistent with journaling. My memory isn't really also the best, so if I am to take trading seriously again and actually improve, I need to ensure I have this journal setup as early as possible to look back and learn. Today marks the day where I commit to updating this entirely new journal to document my thought process from pre-selecting stocks to the final result of each trade.

The Target: Profits and Timeline

As part of this project, I will be setting a minimum target profit for each trade. I'm keeping that value to 5% for the time being. I am not a professional, nor have I proved anything in the past, but I think this is a reasonable target for both short and medium-term positions. My definition of short and medium term positions? Holding the stock for about 1-4 weeks, and medium term 4-12 weeks before selling.

A quick status report of what the portfolio looked like last December 8, 2025 before I started managing my wife's COL account.

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The capital is small and as of yet, there is no plan to deposit more. The goal is to earn our first million with the existing amount.

Also, since then I've sold all the stocks and have had everything in one basket. More on this later.