This year was a pivitol year for me.  My trading journey up until mid 2025 was several years of scalping from 06:00 to 08:00 GMT every day.  My results swung wildly between periods of phenomonal success into periods of stagnant or declining performance.  With a flawed money and risk management plan, targeting mostly 1:1 risk to reward and with a constantly and damagingly fluctuating risk exposure, between 0.25% and 2% per trade, my equity curve was mostly downhill.  Something needed to change urgently.

I decided on a complete change of pace and switched from scalping to swing trading, trading the 1-minute chart for the daily and weekly charts.  I decided to switch my focus from concentrating on one to two assets and regularly forcing trades, to now analysing dozens of assets.  On the face of it this seems like I step in the wrong direction, watering down focus over so many assets, but with the new and improved philosophy of now only taking the cleanest most text book trades going forwards, analysing several dozen assets was actually very easy and simple and not time consuming at all.  Infact, I could look at a chart and decide within a second if it was trade ready or not!

Since going live as a swing trader in October 2025, I have missed several opportunities due to a lack of confidence and rules for entry, an area that will garner further attention going forwards.  Of the small handful of trades I have taken, for the first time in several years, I have achieved multiple-R on each trade.

This new pace suits me well.  I check the charts for just a few minutes each day, scanning over a hundred assets in just a few minutes.  I set stop orders with SL and multiple-R TP orders and walk away with minimal fuss.  I am now at the beginning of the success part of my journey.