Day Trading Watch List for Monday!

What's up everyone? All right, so in today's episode, I'm going to give you my watch list for Monday morning and the game plan for the week ahead and really the rest of the year. We're coming to

the last few trading days of 2025. You

know, coming into the holidays, this is a week where I expect lighter volume across the board. Generally speaking, a lot of big money traders will probably not be as active. And a lot of traders

who have been around for a long time, like myself, recognize that this is a period where it's sort of hit or miss.

It's generally lighter volume. And so I expect that even if there are moves, they'll also be on lighter volume, which means this is not the time of year I'd

be most likely to hit like a grand slam or some huge trade. Having a huge winner is usually the combination of the market already being really hot with lots of liquidity, which allows me to take

really large position sizes. So even

though we could have a wildcard stock at some point this week that makes a big move, if it's on lighter total volume, it won't be as easy to take bigger big positions because of the slippage getting in and out due to lighter volume

and lower liquidity. So that means in the next few trading days, I'm hoping to add a little icing to the cake that has been 2025, but I also want to be mindful

to not take too much risk. Now, if we jump on the screen share, I'm going to start breaking down the watch list for you guys here. It's actually Saturday.

I'm going to record this a little bit earlier. I'll upload it on Sunday for

earlier. I'll upload it on Sunday for you uh to watch going into uh of course the evening and then uh for Monday morning, you'll be in good shape. But,

you know, I was just thinking about this um because I was talking to a few traders towards the end of last week who were feeling a bit frustrated with the choppiness that we that we saw o over

the last week and it and it continued um you know into Friday. So, Friday, for example, um the only stock I traded was AI. This is well this is the one right

AI. This is well this is the one right here and AI although it did end up uh giving a a decent move sort of right at the opening bell. It then pulled back

and then it kind of rallied back up as you could see here um into after hours.

It wasn't the most exciting and in total I didn't really do all that well on it.

So I'll pull up my metrics here. We'll

look at the calendar for December. Uh

December right now is um you know I'm kind of underperforming a little bit.

I'm at uh $295,000, which is good. About 100,000 a week. Uh

can't complain. Has me on track for a 400 maybe 500k month if not for the fact that we've got, you know, this sort of holiday here and then, you know, going

into New Year's um in this area. So, I

just ex I I just don't expect to have any record-breaking trades in this window. I might have some decent base

window. I might have some decent base hits, you know, 12,000 maybe $50,000 days. Certainly possible. Um, but I

days. Certainly possible. Um, but I wouldn't expect a whole lot more than that. So, uh, realistically, it's

that. So, uh, realistically, it's probably going to be a little bit of a slower finish. But, uh, you know, last

slower finish. But, uh, you know, last week I had a really good day on Monday with 15 trades and then Tuesday was super slow. Wednesday was also slow.

super slow. Wednesday was also slow.

Thursday was slow and Friday was slow.

These are four trades a day. Wednesday

and Thursday, one trade on Friday, one trade on Tuesday. So, Monday was the best day. Uh so I uh was talking to uh a

best day. Uh so I uh was talking to uh a trader in the room on Friday and they were also up um it was about the same as

me, $1,500, something like that. um you

know sort of in the earlier part of the day and they kind of kept trading and they ended up going red on NBY here which sort of going into the close had

this squeeze and then big jack knife back down as you can see right there and I kind of thought on this um and I said

you know I feel like the big key for me this year has been giving up sooner And I know that sounds kind of like giving up

sooner. You're giving up. That's not a

sooner. You're giving up. That's not a good attribute. Why would you just give

good attribute. Why would you just give up? But it's but to me, giving up when

up? But it's but to me, giving up when the market is a little colder and it's not giving up gains easily. Just giving

up. I mean, just accepting that it's not going to happen today. Why why burn all this energy? Why take a bunch of risk if

this energy? Why take a bunch of risk if the likelihood is that I'm not going to get much reward for it? Because if I don't stand to gain that much, but I'm still taking risk on all these trades, then, you know, I get into one of these

and it goes the wrong way and just like that, my $1,500 green day goes to, you know, a red day and I I, you know, it just doesn't feel like it's worth it.

So, I don't know why I've been it's a little easier for me just to sort of feel like, oh, I'm just going to submit to the market and give up. I'm not even going to, you know, try to fight this

battle. I know being a successful trader

battle. I know being a successful trader does require this. You have to have a fight in you. You know, trading your sort of odds are stacked against you.

You've got to be aggressive. You've got

to see the reward potential and be willing to take the risk and, you know, take these trades. But on the other hand, there's no doubt that there have been days this year where the market's

been really hot and it made all the sense in the world for me to dig deep and try to extract as much profit as I could on that day, which meant trading longer into the day. And then there were

days like Friday and also days like um you know Tuesday and certainly this day back here on Monday where the writing was on the wall that I should have walked away sooner and you know I didn't

walk away as soon as I should have on this day and I ended up digging the hole you know a lot deeper than it needed to go. You know this was kind of the final

go. You know this was kind of the final leg down that was totally unnecessary.

It was one big loss and then kind of a small one a small gain and then that's where things just kind of really start to spiral. So, I'm not perfect at

to spiral. So, I'm not perfect at walking away. You know, look, we all

walking away. You know, look, we all it's a it's a it's a muscle that we strengthen the more we practice the discipline of when do I walk away. But I

will tell you um there's a book here that I'll give you guys um a recommendation to that I I really enjoy.

Um so, this is Quit by Annie Duke. So,

if you're traveling here for the holiday um and you need some reading, get it on audiobook. That would be a nice read.

audiobook. That would be a nice read.

And then uh the other book that she has is thinking in bets right here. So these

are two really good books. Um the the first one quit is the power of knowing when to walk away. And it it feels like if there were ever the title of a book that seems like it speaks to traders,

that would be it. It's like the perfect title. Um because ultimately, isn't that

title. Um because ultimately, isn't that something that maybe one of the most important things to learn when it comes to trading? When to walk away each day.

to trading? When to walk away each day.

You walk away too soon, you leave money on the table. You walk away too late, you're giving back profit, right? So,

how do you find that spot? And it's not the same every day, right? Some days it would behoove me to trade longer. And,

you know, maybe that means trading all the way to 4 p.m. or even 5:00 p.m. I

don't know. And then other days, you know, I should I might even be well advised to walk away at 8:30 in the morning and not even keep trading any

longer. So being able to know in real

longer. So being able to know in real time, is this the type of day I should walk or stay longer? And then being able

to kind of recognize those early triggers potentially that could end up leading to a big red day or those early warning signs that today doesn't have the potential to be one of your top 10

days. So honestly, it's probably best

days. So honestly, it's probably best just to just to call it. Now, something

that we did um just last week, a member was asking me to look at my metrics of winners. And we were looking at my

winners. And we were looking at my winners. This year has been a really

winners. This year has been a really solid year uh sitting over $6 million of profit. And the question was, you know,

profit. And the question was, you know, how much have I made for my biggest winners. So, I looked at my top 300

winners. So, I looked at my top 300 biggest winners. And what was

biggest winners. And what was interesting to see, I've taken about 3,000 trades this year, a bit more than that by now. Um, so the top 300 winners

are kind of the top 10%. And they've

produced uh $5.4 million of profit. Now,

obviously I'm up a little over 6 million. So that would make it seem

million. So that would make it seem like, wow, that's like, you know, 90% of my profit. Uh but that's actually not

my profit. Uh but that's actually not exactly the right way to look at it because uh when we compare all of my winners uh to all of my losers, what you

would see is that uh year to date I've had um let's see, it's going to be probably more like uh nine $8 million in winners. What is it? $8.4 million in

winners. What is it? $8.4 million in profit, right? So those are all my

profit, right? So those are all my winners in total and then you have to take away the $2 million in losses. So

that leaves me at 6.4 million. But

nonetheless, 5.4 million of that 8.4 uh comes from just the top uh 10% of trades. So, you know, when I'm sitting

trades. So, you know, when I'm sitting down each day, there should be some question of is this the type of day that could be in the top

10? Is this the type of day that I

10? Is this the type of day that I should dig deep? And as soon as the day indicates that it's not, then the likelihood is pretty high that although

it could be a green day, it's not going to be anything that really moves the needle in a big way. But if I'm not careful, it could become one of those red days that really screws me up,

right? You know, some of those big

right? You know, some of those big losses can be really devastating. I

mean, I guess we could actually look at um we go over to trades and we sort by um let's see, we'll sort by P&L. So, oh,

and then we're going to close this out.

Um so, this is going to be biggest losers of the year. Biggest losers of the year. Actually, that's biggest

the year. Actually, that's biggest losers of all time. We're going to go year to date. So, year to date. And why

don't we look at the top 100 biggest losers. So, if we look at the top 100

losers. So, if we look at the top 100 biggest losers, I'll just select all of these. And what I'll do is I'll add a

these. And what I'll do is I'll add a tag. Um,

tag. Um, 100 trades selected. Yeah, that's all I want. Um,

want. Um, biggest losers.

Submit. Oops.

Biggest losers.

And yep. So, we're going to add that.

So, these are going to be Oh, so that's about Sorry. So, that was 100 trades.

about Sorry. So, that was 100 trades.

So, this is on So, we'll go like that.

So that's the first 100. Okay. So now

we're going to go to the second 100 group. All right. So this is going to be

group. All right. So this is going to be trades. Um we're going to add the same

trades. Um we're going to add the same tag here, biggest losers. And then we'll do it for uh the third group. So we'll

have about 300 of the biggest losers.

And we'll have about 300 of the biggest winners. So I got to change this to

winners. So I got to change this to showing 100. And then we'll go to page

showing 100. And then we'll go to page three right here.

Grab these. add the same tag. And so

naturally um oops naturally when we look at these um they're all losers. So the accuracy is going to be zero because we're only looking at the losers. But let's just

look for um you know those top 10% biggest losers. So if we look at this

biggest losers. So if we look at this biggest losers um what we're likely to see is that um you know some of these losses obviously are are substantial

which is not good. Um the top well so those the those 300 those 300 trades

which is I mean it's that's yeah it's 1.8 million in losses and those are the

um those essentially are my 10% worst trades. So, if we jump on the whiteboard

trades. So, if we jump on the whiteboard here, just to kind of like um put this in context. So, let's see. Um I'm going

in context. So, let's see. Um I'm going to turn on my light over here so you could see the whiteboard a little bit better. Okay. So, we've got um the So,

better. Okay. So, we've got um the So, basically, we kind of have like, you know, um uh the graph here. So, this is

going to be um the so the 10% worst trades. So, biggest

biggest losers is minus 1.8 million and then over here we've got the biggest winners winners

and it's plus 5.4 million. So, and then and then this is just the 10% the top 10% percentile and then the bottom 10%.

Right? So, then everything else is in between all the in between stuff. And

what I think is interesting here is when you look at these big losers, it's, you know, obviously your top 10% biggest winners here is something you pay

attention to. These represent about 60%

attention to. These represent about 60% of my total profit. So, I am making money on trades that are between a P&L of zero and, you know, 10,000 or

whatever it is. Uh, and but this is between zero and minus like 200,000 or whatever for the biggest losers, 200k.

Um, but what we're noticing is that those top 10% um you know, the biggest losers and the the bottom 10% right

there are accounting for 90% of losses.

Now fortunately my accuracy is split here so that um it's about oops it's wrong. So it's about 30% um 30% are

wrong. So it's about 30% um 30% are losses and then the remaining 70% approximately are winners. So thank

goodness my accuracy is higher. But you

know when you're looking at these losses here the you know it's a it's a substantial amount to lose. And I think for me when I look at that um you know

it reminds me of how important it is to walk away and how important it is to cut your losses and try to keep them as small as possible because you know when

you end up having these big losses you know especially the the top 10 biggest losses you know if we just looked at the top 10 biggest losses which no doubt are

I mean th those are outliers you could call them outliers because they're Not I mean you know there's such big losses

but that's 169,000 right there. So 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10. So you know so that's

right there 210,000 250 287 310 approximately 340 370

400 430 and 460. So about $460,000

in losses from those 10 trades. I mean

that that's that feels like that feels like a lot, you know, for 10 trades to represent in terms of, you know, these are these are my top 10 biggest losses this year. You could say they're

this year. You could say they're mistakes. Um, obviously they're trades

mistakes. Um, obviously they're trades where I mismanaged my risk. I lost

significantly more than I was initially planning. And is it possible, you know,

planning. And is it possible, you know, if we looked at some of these days where this happened, this was October 7th. So,

if we look at October 7th, is it possible that on that day there was already a caution flag, so to speak, out on the play, right? That should have told me, Ross, this isn't the type of

day to be pushing it. So, let's go look at October 7th. So, we're going to go back to the calendar.

We're going to jump back to October right here.

So $172,000.

So, is it possible that after I was already down 18,000 on the day at 10 7 or when I was down 25,000 at 7:15 or

when I was down 31,000 at 720, that that should have been an indicator for me to stop trading right then and there and thus avoid this biggest loss right here

that I've had um in the last two years where I where I lost um you know, dropped right down there and it was like 168 $8,000 loss.

And you know, the answer is yes. So,

look, I'm not perfect about walking away. This is a a pretty epic example of

away. This is a a pretty epic example of how important it is to give up. But what

I want to bring attention to is developing this recognition that there are some days where it makes sense dig deep and trade longer. And there's other

days and and on those days here, you know, those days where things are really connecting, you're doing really well, right? Already based on your first few

right? Already based on your first few trades, you know, the the day is like up here in sort of your plot. So, if this was like, you know, just in terms of plotting like, you know, you're only going to have one day that's your

biggest green day, you know, and one day that's your biggest red day and everything else is going to be in between. And you want to be obviously

between. And you want to be obviously mostly with green days in here. But if

all of a sudden on your first couple trades, you know, you're pushing the top of this sort of standard deviation and you're up in this area, then obviously, doesn't it make sense that that's the

type of day that you should dig dig deep and trade longer? I think it does. And

then on the other hand, if you know, you start the day right away and you go red, you know, you're under well, it should be in red, but you know, you get the idea. You go red, you're underperforming

idea. You go red, you're underperforming a little bit. You know, this is a day where at best, maybe it's just a small red day. At best, maybe it's a small

red day. At best, maybe it's a small green day. You pop up to green, but at

green day. You pop up to green, but at worst, you know, you could go way down here and it's not worth it. So, you

know, I'm I'm not trying to discourage you guys from, you know, obviously trading. I mean, do do as you'd like,

trading. I mean, do do as you'd like, but there are and specifically over the next couple weeks, but my expectation is relatively low for the next two weeks.

So, what I'm going to do is I'm going to show up every day and if I can hit my daily goal, which is my cold market daily goal of $5,000, I'm going to be pretty happy with that $5,000 daily goal

in a, you know, holiday week. So that

would be a, you know, I mean, again, not going to trade every day, but could easily have me at 25 $30,000 a week if I have a couple days where I'm above the

goal and, you know, a couple days that are colder. And that would be an okay

are colder. And that would be an okay way to finish up uh finish up the month, but and the year, but I don't think that I should come in swinging for the fences. And I think if I tried to trade

fences. And I think if I tried to trade longer into the day, especially on like Christmas Eve, what you're going to see is that there's lighter and lighter volume as you get closer to the end of the day. And that can be a problem

the day. And that can be a problem because now you're trading from a point of desperation. You know, you're running

of desperation. You know, you're running out of time. And you know, if you're not careful, you could end up uh making a big mistake and then there's no time to recover it. So, I want to be aggressive

recover it. So, I want to be aggressive starting early. If the day is showing,

starting early. If the day is showing, you know, some great momentum, we've got a stock squeezing up, okay, that's awesome. I'm going to try to make the

awesome. I'm going to try to make the most of it. It might be the only one, you know, that day, maybe even for the next couple days. So, it'll have to tide me over. But, if it's cold, I'm just

me over. But, if it's cold, I'm just going to kind of keep myself parked on the sidelines and trading with smaller size. So, my plan then for tomorrow or

size. So, my plan then for tomorrow or for Monday is that what I'm going to be doing is I'm going to be looking at our top gainer scanner and I I'll sit down and look at it probably around 6:30 in the morning. And the first observation

the morning. And the first observation is, you know, what how big are our leading gainers? So on Friday, our

leading gainers? So on Friday, our leading gainers were up like 25%. Those

were not very big gaps. And so I thought, okay, it's going to be a slow day. AI ended up kind of creeping higher

day. AI ended up kind of creeping higher for lack of anything else to trade.

People seem to pay attention to it. Kind

of surprised me, but you know, it is what it is. So broke the ice, got a little trade on that, but it didn't continue higher. And also would have

continue higher. And also would have been okay for that to have been a no trade day for me. Um, but uh that's my plan is to watch the scanners and to see what's moving. I don't think that we

what's moving. I don't think that we have a theme right now. You know, we've had uh some decent stocks that have made big moves over the last couple weeks,

but the last big move on Monday, RADX was a biotech pharmaceutical company with good news, clinical trial results.

And I don't think that we're going to see necessarily like that's the other problem with the holiday week. Are we gonna see a company

holiday week. Are we gonna see a company put out a big headline about clinical trials during the holiday week? I don't

know. I mean, I think that we know these companies really pay attention to sentiment in the market and they try to put out headlines where they're going to get the most kind of bang for their buck

from them. And then it feels like they

from them. And then it feels like they hold back on headlines when things are slow. What this does is it kind of um it

slow. What this does is it kind of um it exasperates the hotness like it makes it even hotter but then also the slowness when it's cold everyone's kind of like

waiting and it's not that necessarily uh we can have a Santa rally going into Christmas but now you know with only a couple days till Christmas um I I just expect this week to be a bit

on the slower side. So again, I'm going to show up every day and I'll be looking at the scanners and I'll try to just hit my base hits. Get in, get green, get out. And if I can add a little bit more

out. And if I can add a little bit more profit to the year, that's going to be great. But I want to try to make sure

great. But I want to try to make sure I'm careful not to get into a place of becoming emotionally hijacked where I start to go red and I get really

stubborn and I don't walk away because it would not be an easy time of year if I take a big loss to be able to recover it quickly. you know, it I recovered

it quickly. you know, it I recovered this loss within, you know, a couple days here, but if that happened again here, it might not it probably wouldn't be till January that I could make that

back. So, it's definitely time to kind

back. So, it's definitely time to kind of take risk off a little bit, be a little bit more conservative, just keep that presence of mind of, you know, what's the condition of the overall

market? Now, I might still be feeling

market? Now, I might still be feeling great. I might be at 100%. I ate well. I

great. I might be at 100%. I ate well. I

slept well. You know, I might even have a couple stocks that I like, but the condition of the overall market is that there may be less volat there like maybe less volume, which means less volatility

or at least less liquidity behind that volatility. And so, the ability to have

volatility. And so, the ability to have really big green days is probably going to be um reduced at least through the rest of the year. Uh but again, then

next thing you know, it's January and it's time to start building the cushion for 2026. So, I don't know how many of

for 2026. So, I don't know how many of you guys checked out um my newest upload, but I do have um a new upload on the channel right here. How to day trade, how to start day trading in 2026.

Full training. So, if you haven't already checked that out, uh make sure you you watch that. It breaks down a beginner day trading strategy that I would use if I was getting started. It

breaks it down into nine steps. So,

that's going to be a good resource for you, a good guide, um, you know, for the weeks and and the months ahead as we get into January and the first quarter. So,

what I would be doing if I were you is I would spend the next two weeks studying as much as you can. So, come January, you're in a better position to be able to hopefully capitalize on the

volatility. So, what does that mean? H

volatility. So, what does that mean? H

how do you study? Well, of course, you can go through the classes. You can

watch my episodes here on YouTube or if you decide to become a Warrior Starter or Warrior Pro member, that's great as well. And you can practice trading in a

well. And you can practice trading in a simulator. these stocks like AI or NBY,

simulator. these stocks like AI or NBY, you could trade them all day long in a simulator just to practice studying the level two, practicing your hot keys and

and they may not be stocks that you would trade with real money, but for the purpose of just getting experience with reading the tape and, you know, being kind of in the in the flow of the

market, it's perfectly fine to practice these. So that's how I would spend the

these. So that's how I would spend the next couple weeks, just watching as much content as you can around trading strategy and practicing as much as you can. So, you know, once we kind of get

can. So, you know, once we kind of get into January and we start to see hopefully some uh bigger moves, you'll be better prepared to capitalize on. All

right, so that's the game plan going into Monday morning. I will be streaming at 7 a.m. bright and early Eastern Standard Time for members at Warrior Trading. Uh those of you guys that want

Trading. Uh those of you guys that want to do a two-eek trial and spend the next two weeks studying and watching over my shoulder, there'll be a link pinned at the top of the comments and in the description where you guys can check that out. And I look forward to seeing

that out. And I look forward to seeing you uh in the morning. Reminder, as

always, trading is risky. My results

aren't typical. And there's no guarantee you'll find success whether you trade with me or you learn on your own. So,

please manage your risk, take it slow, and always practice in a simulator before putting real money on the line.

With that, I'll see you guys bright and early on Monday morning.