@Ben Tatrow Congratulations Ben! Very inspirational, gives me hope of success in the future. If I may ask you a question, I am about to start a new job with a Monday to Friday schedule. This will prevent me from trading during the prime morning session hours. My question is, can you give me any advice on where you found good trading times, or any other suggestions on being successful trading outside of prime morning session hours?

@Mark Clarno what I am calling choppy is the rather large wicks I see on many of the candles, like along the whole down trend on today's ES 5m chart. Maybe that's not the right term to use. It feels like I keep getting "chopped" each time my SL gets hit. Kyle's comment below is dead right for me. I feel little confidence in my understanding of where and when to look for the "best" point of interest. I mean I understand how to find order blocks, that I have down well. today one part of my problem was that I had it in my head to look for bullish trades only, so I did not recognize the bearish turn that ES took in the morning until it was too late. I took a bullish Superman trade right after opening bell. I got chopped on that one. That was one lost trade. Then at around noon price bounced a little on a 15m demand zone. Got in on that trade, expecting a bullish turn. It did run up to about 1.5x then turned south. That was loss number 2. Price eventually hit a 1hr demand. I took another trade, again ran up to about 1.5x then turned back on me. I did not want to try again, although looking back on it now the 1hr block was the swing point. I guess I just did not get the best entry point. I have gotten better at least at not taking dozens of trades in no-man's-land. I am learning to wait for price to hit a zone, but I am still missing something on getting in at the right time in the best zones.

@Mark Clarno You know, that is one thing I forgot to consider. I have just recently begun applying Kyles suggestions about taking the Asian lows. I had it marked on my chart, but then disregarded it when looking for a trade. That would have saved me at least 2 of my losses today had I waited for that before trying a long trade. Thank you for mentioning that. This week I just started using TopStepX platform for trading. Getting used to the different look of things there. I am starting to monitor price on 1hr and 15m, then dropping into 5m, 1m, or 15s to enter trades. Also trying to use the various entry method criteria that Kyle presented this past weekend. And on top of all that, next week I will begin a new job which will prevent me from trading during the day. I will have to try out pre-market or evening to find some trades. Several "new" things I am working out with right now. Anyway, thanks for chatting with me about this. Will keep practicing and hopefully improving.

A working order is an order waiting to be filled. Looks like your entry order did not get filled so you are not in the trade at all. I see the red wick crossing your entry order level. Either you set the trade too late or you just did not get filled. That happens sometimes. If you haven't already, I would say it is safe to cancel this order and wait for another setup.

I would not look at it as you did anything wrong. The market just won't do what we want every time. In this case there was a single wick that just tapped the entry price level. Other times you will get multiple candles that dance along the entry level before price moves up or down. Just keep finding entry points and keep trying. You are doing great.

Hi Robert. There are variations on how to draw blocks. There is not an absolute right/wrong way to draw them. Your boxes look good to me. Keep in mind, the deeper down demand blocks often have a better chance of bouncing price and that also gives you more room up above a trade entry for better chance at winning profits. Good job!!

Looks like you correctly identified closing below the fractal low. Not getting filled is just something that happens sometimes. You might experiment with dropping down another level into a 1m chart. Each level down zooms in to give more detail on the price action at a given point in time. Often you will see superman criteria form earlier and more clearly on a 1m than on the 5m chart. Even doing that, you will still find sometimes your entry order just won't get filled. On your second trade, that is what some people call a continuation trade. You are trading on the continuation of the trade pattern instead of the initial pivot of the pattern. Here again, sometimes you will not get filled, sometimes you will. Sometimes you will hit TP, sometimes you will hit SL. Luck is always a factor. One suggestion to help skew luck in your favor. if you study up on market structure that knowledge can give you a better understanding of estimating what price patterns to expect. Good luck!!