Journal the Trade Before You Place It: The Pre-Entry Filter
Battle Plan · Trading Room · Free Course · Trading Library Become A Member Write the entry down first. If you can't defend it on paper, you don't take it. From the free MicrosTrader Trading Library … 140 lessons mined from 1,042 live ES and MES futures sessions taught since 2018. Journal the trade before you place it. You write the entry in your journal first: the level, the reasons, the logic. Only then do you click buy or sell. The act of writing it forces your mind to simulate being in the trade before a single dollar is at risk. Bad entries reveal themselves on paper. Good ones earn their place. That one habit is George's pre-entry filter for ES E-mini futures and MES micro futures alike. This page gathers everything George teaches about the pre-entry filter across hundreds of hours of live ES and MES micro futures trading… why writing the trade first stops impulse entries, the one question that gates every click, how to defend an entry to a panel of peers...