Hit $250K; here's my full quarterly review

Two years ago I started this Roth IRA with $3,400 and a lot of skepticism. As of this morning the account crossed $250,000. I wanted to write up exactly how the last quarter went because the milestone posts that helped me most early on were the honest, number-heavy ones; not the screenshots with no context.

Q2 was 61 trades total. Win rate landed at 47%, which still feels strange to type, but the average winner was 2.3x the average loser so the expectancy stayed positive. Two trades alone accounted for roughly a third of the quarter's gains. That asymmetry is the whole game; if you cut winners early to 'lock it in' you quietly destroy the edge.

Biggest lesson this quarter: I stopped overriding the system. In April I skipped two SSL2 long signals because the news felt scary, and both would have been winners. After that I committed to taking every signal mechanically. My job is monitoring and funding, not forecasting.

Process notes for anyone earlier on the path: I spend about 20 minutes a day, all of it after the close. TradingView fires the alert, TradersPost routes it to my broker, and I just confirm fills and log the trade. No intraday screen-watching. That boredom is a feature.

Next checkpoint is the $500K reassessment. I'll re-run position sizing and decide whether to keep the aggressive SOXL allocation or shift part to the conservative variant. Happy to answer anything about the setup or the numbers below.