📉➡️📊 When a scalping turns into a long operation (and what I learned with $RIVER )
-This is not an investment recommendation.
-It is management, real experience, and market learning.
-I entered RIVER with the clear idea of doing scalping.
-Quick entry, short target, simple management.
-But the market decided otherwise.
The price did not continue the momentum and started to lateralize for hours at -1000 ROI, without real strength to break. Without looking for it, the operation turned into a swing, a long position of almost 36 hours.
Here came one of the most important learnings from the trade:
👉 I stopped looking at short timeframes.
-When I understood that there was no movement in 15m and 1h, going down to 3m or 1m was just noise.
-False candles, micro impulses, and the feeling that "it's about to break out."
I changed the approach:
-Look at 15m and 1h as the main reference.
-If it wasn’t moving there, there was nothing to do.
-No staying glued to the chart waiting for a miracle.
-Just occasional glances when I had time.
-With enough margin to sleep peacefully.
The management was simple and conscious:
-Controlled size.
-No close liquidation point.
-Wait for a real impulse to average out and exit, not an imagined one.
-The impulse came, I let it run… but it failed.
-I was close to -4 USD and it fell again, waiting again was not an option, I averaged in on a short impulse but then it went up and I closed at -2 USD.
-Closing felt like winning 100 dollars; I was at -40 or more, I wasn’t paying that much attention.
-I freed myself from the stress and started trading well again.
-In 3 quick scalps, I recovered without revenge.
🧠 Key lessons
-If nothing happens in 15m and 1h, lowering the timeframe only adds noise.
-Not looking at the chart all the time is also management.
-Sleeping peacefully is worth more than "being right."
-Close at the smallest possible loss is a psychological victory.
The market was not rewarding the wait, only draining mental energy.
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