Hi all,
I had an experience this morning that I wanted to share with the community in case it helps someone else learn from my mistake.
Probably best not to trade instead of trading in a hurry. There's always another trade and another day :)
I was setting up by FBA this morning on GC with my Apex 250k account like usual this morning just before NY open. No worries there, just check everything's set correctly and let it trade (unfortunately loss this morning btw).
Then I decided to manually trade my Tradeify S2F prop account at the same time, same strat but on MGC instead to size down. The account was in drawdown so hoped to recover it eventually. So I started calculating my trade size based on the ORB, right before open. I see that price is getting to the entry trigger on FBA so I started rushing to get my trade setup manually. It took the trade, it went against me and then it exited 1/2 way through the stop.... Oh, I must have put the stop in the wrong spot. But smaller loss than it could have been, no worries, be more careful next time.... Then I look at the P/L and I lost $2000 instead of $800 that it should've been. WTF? Ohhhh, in my haste I forgot to change the chart from GC to MGC so I was trading 4 mini's!!! That mistake blew my straight to funded account.