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Date

April 18th, 2026

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Article, Live Trading, Updates

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Daniel Griffiths

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Hello Traders!

I hope you have had a great week.

For me, I’ve been struggling again. Not just mentally, but no trade ideas appeared. That being said I do have a plan of action.

Let’s dive into it.

(Tools I have used this week will be featured at the bottom of the blog – including discounts!)

 

Live Trading Info

EURUSD

London Session (7am – 9am UTC)

FTMO funded account start balance = $50,000

Risk:Reward ratio = 0.5:1.65

 

Trading Performance

As mentioned in the intro I have had no trade ideas.

I have gone over this week’s price action and I cannot find a single trade idea that meets my criteria (even with hindsight).

This is the 2nd week in a row now where no trade ideas have appeared, and this never happened in my backtesting data, so I am getting suspicious. 

I went over last week’s price action too as I said in the last blog that there were no trades. However, looking back I can now see that I did miss 2 trades. 

This has led me to believe that something is not going right in my mind when it comes to professionally trading. 

I spent a lot of time this Friday thinking about what could be going wrong with my mindset and I arrived at poor focus. 

I seem to have dug myself into a rut where I quickly conclude the day’s price action and then use that to justify staying out of the markets to go on my phone. This is so I can avoid the pain of losing for any trade idea. 

This poor focus and justification then stems into a poor post-session analysis, which then leads to bad weekly reviews, which then leads to poor trading.

I’ve spoken about sleep in the past and recently my discipline has been slipping, so that’s not helping either but I do want to make a calculated change to my trading. 

 

Calculated Change

My plan will be to shorten my session even further. 

Old: 7am – 9am

New: 8am – 9am

I have only recently shortened it by ending my session at 9am instead of 10am but I want to go one step further and reduce the start time. 

The calculated move with this is that instead of waking up at 7am and getting straight on the charts, I want to have a structured morning where I can hydrate, get breakfast, and have solid preparation. 

I visualise to process as: 

Strong start -> strong focus / session (1hr) -> strong post-session 

I currently see it as:

Rushed start -> weak focus & session (2hrs) -> weak post-session

That process flow in itself makes me feel more confident.

The catch with this is a lower trade frequency. However, I want to counter this argument by suggesting the possible idea of taking more aggressive (might not quite be the same entry model) trades because I am more focused. That’s a long term play though. 

We will see how bad the impact of trade frequency is since looking at my backtesting data sheet, 52 out of 111 trades appeared between 8 & 9am, that’s around 47%. So yes, dropping the number by half could be detrimental, but I am much more focused on being focused in a live market than just raw data. 

I’ll update you on how it goes next week.

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As promised, here are the tools I have used this week and a discount code for Magic Keys:

Check out the Tools page for more info

Thank you for taking the time to read this blog post, it means a lot to me. 

See you next week and happy trading!