Every trader has closed a winner and wished they had more on. That feeling? That is position sizing talking to you. And in 0dte options trading it is the most important conversation you are going to have before any trade. Zero day to expiration options move fast. They decay fast. And if you are oversized on the wrong side there is no time to recover, no next candle to bail you out, no tomorrow. The size you choose before you enter is everything. Yesterday I had a high risk bull Fuse signal. The setup was there but the conviction wasn’t high. I took the trade but much smaller than my standard position size. That trade hit 80% in 36 minutes. The smaller size meant if it had not worked I walked away fine. The swing paid me because I was still in the trade. Position sizing did its job. I

Emotional trading has a measurable dollar cost. Researchers Brad Barber and Terrance Odean studied thousands of retail traders and found that those who reacted emotionally to market moves underperformed by 6.5% annually compared to traders who stuck to a plan. That gap does not come from bad strategy. It comes from good strategies abandoned at the wrong moment. The last month has given traders every reason to abandon their plans. One session the market is in freefall, the next it is ripping to new highs, and somewhere in between a headline drops on thin volume and suddenly people are making decisions they never planned to make. The news flow does not care what time of day it hits, and neither does the emotional response it triggers. The Specific Mechanism When a threatening headline crosses your screen, your brain processes it as a survival event. Cortisol, the stress hormone your body

The breakout spiked in volume and the trade was dead. Here is what happened and why it matters for every morning you sit down in front of a chart. The opening range break is one of the cleanest setups in day trading. The concept is simple. In the first fifteen minutes after the market opens, price forms a range between a high and a low. Three five-minute candles, where each candle represents five minutes of price movement compressed into one bar. That range is your line in the sand for the morning. When price closes a five-minute candle above the high of that range, that is your breakout signal. You take it long. When it closes below, you take it short. Most traders stop there. Take the candle break, enter the trade, see what happens. Here is what I add on top of that, and it is the thing that