DATE: Mon, 25 – 03 – 2019 TRADE: Buy TYPE: Breakout CHART: image COMMENTARY: Feeling: Mixed. Quite many ambiguities in this early-bloom Breakout Trade. Results: First, the Breakout on Candle 05:00 was a Breakout-ish, because its Close and the ...

XAUUSD(Gold) TradingJournal - Charts&Commentaries – by Wibie G

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XAUUSD(Gold) TradingJournal - Charts&Commentaries – by Wibie G

DATE: Fri, 22 – 03 – 2019 TRADE: Buy TYPE: Breakout CHART: image COMMENTARY: Feeling: Drained. Both my Resolve to the Rulebook and my Ability to Manage the Trailing Stop (TS) were fiercely tested several times in this Trade. Price Dynamics were ...

XAUUSD(Gold) TradingJournal - Charts&Commentaries – by Wibie G

DATE: Thu, 21 – 03 – 2019 TRADE: Buy TYPE: Breakout CHART: image COMMENTARY: Feeling: Oh well.. In this journal’s history, this was the first Trade that turned into a legitimate Loss. ‘Legitimate’ here means all Criteria were met and I couldn’t ...

XAUUSD(Gold) TradingJournal - Charts&Commentaries – by Wibie G

DATE: Wed, 20 – 03 – 2019 TRADE: Sell TYPE: Breakout CHART: image COMMENTARY: Feeling: Humbled. It was another new setups combination that I didn’t think could happened, but did. There was an invalid on-time Breakout on Candle 10:00, followed up ...

XAUUSD(Gold) TradingJournal - Charts&Commentaries – by Wibie G

DATE: Tue, 19 – 03 – 2019 TRADE: Buy (not taken, not all criteria were met) TYPE: Breakout CHART: image COMMENTARY: Feeling: Grateful. Two early-bloom breakouts, but the last one invalidated itself so I decided not to trade it. Price went zigzag ...

XAUUSD(Gold) TradingJournal - Charts&Commentaries – by Wibie G

DATE: Mon, 18 – 03 – 2019 TRADE: Sell TYPE: Breakout CHART: image COMMENTARY: Feeling: Surprised. This was **the 1st Loss at SL Level** in this journal. As per current Criteria, all checkpoints were checked. Looking at Price Dynamics, the only ...

XAUUSD(Gold) TradingJournal - Charts&Commentaries – by Wibie G

DATE: Fri, 15 – 03 – 2019 TRADE: Buy TYPE: Breakout CHART: image COMMENTARY: Feeling: Oh, well.. Occasionally, we see OPs don’t get triggered; expected risk of doing pending order. This was one of those days. However, as far as the Price dynamics ...

XAUUSD(Gold) TradingJournal - Charts&Commentaries – by Wibie G

DATE: Thu, 14 – 03 – 2019 TRADE: Sell TYPE: Breakout CHART: image COMMENTARY: Feeling: Hesitated at first. We’ve seen plenty of breakouts in recent trades. This one’s caught me by surprise. Firstly, there were 2 Breakouts this day; Candle 05:00 ...

XAUUSD(Gold) TradingJournal - Charts&Commentaries – by Wibie G

DATE: Wed, 13 – 03 – 2019 TRADE: Buy TYPE: Breakout CHART: image COMMENTARY: Feeling: Hmmm.. This Trade was the 2nd time this week I saw the Trail Stop got hit by Price before moving up above TP. But now, the Trade’s Close was at about the level ...

XAUUSD(Gold) TradingJournal - Charts&Commentaries – by Wibie G

DATE: Tue, 12 – 03 – 2019 TRADE: Buy TYPE: Breakout CHART: image COMMENTARY: Feeling: Worried, then relieved. There was a valid early-bloom Breakout on Candle 04:00. Typically, I would trade it at the Candle 08:00’s Close. But then I also noticed ...

XAUUSD(Gold) TradingJournal - Charts&Commentaries – by Wibie G

DATE: Mon, 11 – 03 – 2019 TRADE: Sell TYPE: Reversal CHART: image Notice: Chandelier Colors have been switched. COMMENTARY: Feeling: Hoping this is just a rare incidence. This day is the 1st day of the year when daylight saving time being replaced ...

XAUUSD(Gold) TradingJournal - Charts&Commentaries – by Wibie G

DATE: Fri, 08 – 03 – 2019 TRADE: Buy (not taken, not all criteria were met) TYPE: Breakout CHART: image COMMENTARY: Feeling: Fascinated. Various combinations of setups happened in every trade this week; I learned something new every day. This day ...

XAUUSD(Gold) TradingJournal - Charts&Commentaries – by Wibie G

DATE: Thu, 07 – 03 – 2019 TRADE: Sell (not taken, not all criteria were met) TYPE: Breakout CHART: image COMMENTARY: Feeling: Well, what do you know?! If you have been following my posts this week, you know we have seen the Escalation pattern for ...

XAUUSD(Gold) TradingJournal - Charts&Commentaries – by Wibie G

DATE: Wed, 06 – 03 – 2019 TRADE: Buy (not taken, not all criteria were met) TYPE: Breakout CHART: image COMMENTARY: Feeling: Getting used to it. Escalation pattern happened again this day, but with a few twists. Since a spade is still a spade, I ...

XAUUSD(Gold) TradingJournal - Charts&Commentaries – by Wibie G

DATE: Tue, 05 – 03 – 2019 TRADE: Sell (not taken, not all criteria were met) TYPE: Breakout CHART: image COMMENTARY: Feeling: More confidence with the criteria. This trade was similar with the Feb 26th one. Both trades had what I call Escalation ...

XAUUSD(Gold) TradingJournal - Charts&Commentaries – by Wibie G

DATE: Mon, 04 – 03 – 2019 TRADE: Sell TYPE: Breakout CHART: image COMMENTARY: Feeling: Not surprised and feeling grateful. This day, Price was at the strong support area. So, it’s no surprise that the valid Sell signal of my strategy lead to ...

XAUUSD(Gold) TradingJournal - Charts&Commentaries – by Wibie G

DATE: Fri, 01 – 03 – 2019 TRADE: Sell TYPE: Breakout CHART: image COMMENTARY: Feeling: Proud of myself to stick with the Plan. This day’s Trade was an early-bloom Breakout. It happened an hour before my Signal Period started. As per Rulebook, I ...

XAUUSD(Gold) TradingJournal - Charts&Commentaries – by Wibie G

DATE: Thu, 28 – 02 – 2019 TRADE: Buy TYPE: Breakout CHART: image COMMENTARY: Feeling: Happy with my TP Tactic. The setup was all good; so I took the trade. The Price Actions afterward were also smooth. The 3rd TBuC touched TP Level, but not closed ...

XAUUSD(Gold) TradingJournal - Charts&Commentaries – by Wibie G

DATE: Wed, 27 – 02 – 2019 TRADE: Sell (not taken, not all criteria were met) TYPE: Breakout CHART: image COMMENTARY: Feeling: All good but.. The OP-SL Range as per Rule book is too tight, i.e. $1.12. Either it indicates strong volatility is coming ...

XAUUSD(Gold) TradingJournal - Charts&Commentaries – by Wibie G