YM 2 min - 3 trades/+14 ticks

Nothing like stumbling out of the gate on a Monday morning. I just couldn't wake up for the opening bell. We're still playing flu tag here, and now the wife's got it. The baby woke up bawling at midnight and was inconsolable. I told the wife to go back to sleep and I'd take care of baby. An hour later, after bottle feeding and handing him 100 cherios one-by-one, he still wasn't going back to sleep. I had to hold him (man, he's getting heavy) for 20 minutes, rocking, walking, walking, rocking, singing before he nodded off again. I was pooped. Alarm went off at the usual 5:30am, and I was zonked out. That's the bad thing about West Coast trading. Hideous starting time.

I started the charts a couple hours late and stuck to the 2 min YM, since that would catch up faster and maybe get some more patterns showing up to make up for lost time. I was zombiefied anyway. Very slow to recognize and had the reactions of a frozen caveman. Finally saw I missed a ghost, so took the next ZLR short at 1. Would've been good for 10 ticks with no heat, but I zoned out and settled for a b/e + 1. Trade 2 was a mini-bline sling short. Ugly ZLR with green LSMA, but turbo collapsed hard and price kicked perfectly off the mid-CCIFib. I entered a half-bar too late, but still got 10 ticks. Missed an inverted ghost after that. Then missed a ghost, but at least managed to draw a TL on it after the fact. Finally took a ZLR short for trade 3 as we neared the regular market's close. Nothing special about it. Just felt like a weak close, and I felt unsatisfied by the day, so I took a final fling to pad my tiny pile with a scalp. Glad it worked out. Those half-hearted flings are a pretty good way to backstab yourself and leave your day with a sour taste. Got up to 8 ticks my way before I bailed with 3. Pfffft.