Used to save up for the count, now I just size smaller

Used to be my whole plan was hoarding cash until I hit the magic number so I could flip intraday without tripping the day trade count. Spent most of last year babysitting a balance instead of trading it! Two entries a week, then sitting on my hands like a chump because I'd used my flips up by Tuesday. Now the count thing is done with and that guide on the old minimum going away made me realise I'd built my entire routine around a rule that doesn't exist anymore. So I trade the same setups, just smaller size and I take the fill when it's there. Spread eats more of a small account than I wanted to admit though, and the piece was pretty blunt about that part.
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SlowSwing_Sam· 23d ago
so the rule stopped existing and you immediately traded more. shocking twist
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RiskFirstRita· 22d ago
Love the smaller size instinct, that's the right reflex. Just make sure the stop moved with it and you're not running the same dollar risk on a third of the position because the entry "feels cleaner" now. Old rule was doing some of your risk management for you for free, and you're the only one doing it now.
BacktestBetty· 22d ago
Two cautions from me, not about your setups but about the conclusion: - more entries available does not mean your edge scaled, it means your sample size grew and small edges get buried in costs - if you re-tune the setups now that you can take every signal, you're fitting to a regime that's a few months old The cost side in that guide matched what I see in my own fill logs, more drag than most people budget for.
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