Most of my losses weren’t bad entries, they were bad position management

For a long time I thought my problem was entries.

Turns out it wasn’t.

Most of my losses came from position management —

adding without really knowing how my average price

and actual risk were shifting.

What surprised me was how “small” adds

completely changed the trade more than I expected.

A 5,000-contract add at a different price

wasn’t just “more size” —

it moved my breakeven far more than I realized.

Once I started actually calculating:

• what average entry I’d end up with before adding

• how much that changed my total risk

• what price I’d need to hit my target PnL

a lot of bad decisions simply disappeared.

Just sharing this in case it helps someone

who’s been struggling with the same thing.