April 1st, 2026

This is ShawnVoyage, trading Day 1 of my challenge using a new strategy. I’m starting with $1,000 and working my way up to hopefully $1 million; at least for this first challenge.

Over the past few years, I’ve been inconsistent and haven’t succeeded with my strategy. I need to start documenting my trades for accountability and to prove that this can be done. I believe I now have a solid strategy, and I want to commit to it by documenting my trades; sharing a post, a chart from the day, and a supporting video.

I’m not sure if I’ll post videos every day; weekly updates might be more realistic. Honestly, that may be the better approach!

Day 1 Travel Poster

MNQ Chart

Let’s start with what happened today:

We opened at 7 AM with the MACD starting to move up, but when an opportunity appeared, price hit the VWAP 2 deviation band—so no trade.

Price later crossed VWAP and MACD was moving down, but the 1-hour Williams Alligator was not close to VWAP, so no trade there as well. The same applied to the next VWAP cross.

The first trade came at 10:30 AM. MACD was moving up, and price crossed the Lips and the 9 EMA. Price reached the VWAP 2 deviation band, so the stop loss was moved 1 point above entry for safety. Price then continued to the 2 ATR target for a profit of 88.25 points. Price crossed the Teeth at 12:30 PM for an additional profit of 47.50 points. That’s a total of 135.75 points, or $271.50 on the MNQ.

There were no other trades today, so that concludes the session.

Total Profit: $271.50

March 31st, 2026 MNQ Chart

I won’t be doing this every day, but I wanted to include the previous day since it was really when I started fully applying this strategy.

This day was a bit unusual, as I didn’t expect the market to move up.

The first trade was right at 7 AM. It was a bit scary because price dropped quickly, but it recovered and hit 69.50. The second contract closed at 5 points.

On the second trade, both contracts closed at -18.25.

The third trade was a win of 75 points on the first contract and 5 points on the second contract, which was supposed to catch a larger trend.

The final trade was a win of 132.50 points on the first contract and 116.75 points on the second contract.

I’m currently trading using ATR targets due to my smaller account, but these trades would have worked well with a full position.

Total Profit: $734.25