Week 10 Recap: Slow Down to Speed Up
March 2 – March 6
Week 10 started with a red day.
Not the ideal way to begin a new week or a new month. The session closed -1.36R (-$1.25K), which was a small confidence knock if I am honest. But the important thing is what happened next. I did not change the strategy. I did not try to force trades to make the loss back.
I simply stayed with the strategy and the trading plan.
What followed were four straight green days, each closing with a 100 percent win rate. Across those four sessions I put together a 10 trade win streak, bringing the week to +7.34R (+$16.6K).
The numbers are nice, but the bigger story this week was a shift in how I am reading the market.
A Timeframe Shift
This week I experimented trading less on the 15 minute TF for structure with 1 minute entries and began working with 1 hour structure and 5 minute entries.
The difference has been noticeable almost immediately.
Market structure simply feels more reliable. Breaks on the 5 minute and 1 hour charts carry slightly more weight due to their HTF mature. On the 1 minute chart, moves could feel a bit noisy and erratic, which made it easy to react to price movements that ultimately did not matter.
With the higher timeframe perspective, everything slows down.
Trades are now lasting four to six hours, compared with the 15 to 60 minutes that was typical before. That extra time creates a calmer environment. Instead of constantly searching for the next entry, there is space to observe price behaviour and manage trades more deliberately.
There is a trade off though. Holding positions longer means greater exposure to scheduled news events, which is something I now need to manage more carefully.
Quality Over Quantity
Another clear change is the number of trades.
When I was working from the 1 minute chart it was easy to take five to eight trades per day, which sometimes led to rushed decisions and lower quality setups.
With the new approach, opportunities appear less frequently. But when they do, the structure is clearer and the reasoning behind the trade is stronger.
Risk to reward is improving as well. Previously many trades capped out around 1.5R, but this week I captured a 4R trade, something that was far less common under the faster approach.
The result is straightforward.
Fewer trades.
Better trades.
The Key Takeaway
Week 10 reinforced an important lesson.
Speed creates noise.
Slowing down creates clarity.
The move to higher timeframe structure has changed the rhythm of the trading day. Decisions feel calmer, setups feel more intentional, and the overall environment is far less reactive.
Week 10 closed +7.34R (+$16.6K), but the more important shift is in the process.
The charts are quieter.
The decisions are calmer.
And the trades carry more weight.
