Posting as incomplete
Looking back at previous trades is crucial to analyse your decisions and reflect on whether you made the best decision, and if things didn’t go as expected, to understand why.
I’m initially looked at trades which were stopped out. I’ve been setting my stops at around 3% under the buy price of momentum trades and I want to see whether this has shaken me out of positions which went on to climb.

I started reviewing my trades since January and put them into an excel sheet as you can see above. I was surprised to see that the first three trades were made at all. I can’t actually see why I made them! I wasn’t expecting to see this at all, but I’m glad since it shows my process has improved even in the last few months. As I was seeing the same weird behaviour, I fast forwarded to February where hopefully my trades appear to be making more sense to me.

My first stop triggered in February was CVNA. Bought in and sold half of the holding after an increase of 8% after a couple of days. The remainder was stopped out after I reset the stop to around my sell price of $54.5. This is an interesting one, because the stock has since risen up to $160 therefore I missed an upside of almost 200% by taking a profit of 8%. I can’t say I made a poor choice here though. I’d have had to have accepted more risk with a stop price around $48, 11% below my buy price. One stock that got away can’t justify risk that high. However I do think (at this point) that my stops may be too tight. The 50 day MA looks an attractive stop point, but even that would have shaken me out at the end of April.