23 April 2026. Around 18:45, silver futures, the one-minute chart. My $150K prop account.
I took a short on SI. Price moved my way. I shifted my stop to breakeven. Price came back, tagged me out at breakeven — then ran. About +10R. Without me.
Ever feel frustrated when a trade goes without you?
It happened to me a few hours ago. Did it affect me? No. Because I followed my trading plan.
What most traders say here
This is the internal monologue when a trade runs without you:
“I shouldn’t have moved my SL.”
“The trade is up +10R now — this could have turned my account around.”
“+10R is $10,000. I could use that money for a lot of things.”
“I could have passed my phase 1 prop firm challenge with this trade.”
“Let me just open a smaller lot to chase the price so I don’t miss out on this run.”
Sounds familiar?
Why it doesn’t touch me
Those are the things I would have said in my early years of trading. When you follow your rules, you don’t succumb to that thinking. Trading rules and plans are there for a reason. For every trade that runs without me like this one, that same plan has quietly prevented five other losses.
What you actually do
What you need to do is follow your trading plan. If you want more data to argue with, don’t argue — go and trade a separate dataset where you record the results of not moving your stop to breakeven. Let the numbers settle it, not your feelings.
There is nothing else to do here but let probabilities play out for your system. You go on with your life and wait for the next setup.
The journal entry
For me, nothing happened. This is well within what I expect out of my trading system. It is simply recorded as a breakeven in my journal, and my day goes on.
Yes — this happens even to profitable traders. The market is not out to get you. Have full confidence in your data. If you don’t have that confidence yet, that is your real signal: go build your backtested data.