Trade 11 — Pic 1: Took a GU short after after first touching and then penetrating the 1.6208 level and came back again to 16214. Shorted it with a reduced 0.7% risk position and 24 pip SL. Pic2: Got knocked out shortly afterwards. This was a ...

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Trade 10 — Pic 1: Shorted EURGBP at SR level with tight 15 pip SL. Pic2: It was a bit slow to react at first which was the first sign of a lowered chance of reversal. When it then reacted a bit dropping some 10 pips I tightened my SL to 11 ...

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Trade 9 — 1 Pic: Shorted GU at 1.6421 at London opening as it hit TL though was probably not the best of moves since it approached that TL and came back up thrusting against it after a short retrace. 2 Pic: The obvious happened and GU overshot ...

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Trade 8 — Pic 1: EU thrustet back above the 1.3940 level whilst forming a bullish 123 pattern in overall uptrend. Executed buy manually after a short pulback to 1.3946 and placed a 16 pip SL at 1.3930 Pic 2 Moved SL to be after 20 pips profit ...

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Trade 7 — Pic 1: GU Short got triggered at pivot point at 1.6347, though it overshot a bit and I took some heat. It reached out to the high point of the 5M candle that touched this level last earlier today. Pic2: This was as quickly over as it ...

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Trade 6 — 1st Pic: Shorted AUD at 0.7857 with a 24 pip SL after it just broke the 123 pattern as seen on the 15M chart target is 0.7760 which is a 76.4 fib & SR level from the last major wave up. 2nd Pic: After struggling at that level for a ...

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Trade 5 — Pic 1: Took a short at 1.3887, it was a bit risky because it was taken just before news but the overall picture with a H&S on larger 4H TF and the recent double top on the 5M leads me to believ in an overall bearish picture and this ...

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Here btw is the equity curve leading up to the account with £3005.30 with which I have started this journal.

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Trade 4 — 1st Pic: Placed order at previous minor pivot point with a 18 pip S/L and downsized 0.8% risk position. 2nd pic: Position did not turn around straight away and closed position manually for a 14 pip loss. It looks as if price rather ...

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Trade 3 — 1st Pic: Short at medium term resistance in a downtrend and H&S pattern on 4H TF 2nd Pic: Moved SL to BE 3rd Pic: Left the position open overnight and my SL got hit at +21 pips this morning after having been up almost 140 pips. ...

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Trade 2 — Sold EURGBP retest of the break at 0.8480 with a very tight 10 pip SL Retest didnt hold and knocked out my SL, though I went very small with this one and only risked 0.33%

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Trade 1 — This morning a TL got hit and showed a decent enough reaction, went in about 6 pips above my ideal entry but the 30M pin was just comlpeted confirming short term support. Got knocked out clean later on.

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Here are a few levels that I'm watching

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The Method & Rules: The backbone of the method I use to trade is based on S/R, mixed with PA, trendlines, patterns and lately I look at VSA (Volume Spread Analysis) for confirmation. The only indicator I use is called BetterVolume and is basically ...

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Good point, could well be. I just called them up but the guys I had on the phone couldn't really explain the increase confidently. Though one of them said that they now have more liquidity providers than before and that they get loads of price ...

Trade Using VSA (Volume Spread Analysis)

Yeah, they do vary. Something has definitely changed with Alpari. Though it seems that he charts are composed somewhat differently i.e. on Alpari's platform the weekend days are not shown, it skips straight from Friday to Monday. Correct me if I'm ...

Trade Using VSA (Volume Spread Analysis)

GBP Daily — Hi guys, This struck me as a high volume churn, low spread bar with very high volume, I think it's also referred to as handbagging and announcing a reversal. In fact more tick volume than on any other day EVER according to my chart ...

Trade Using VSA (Volume Spread Analysis)

AUD — I'm quite happy to take this 1H bucket long as it coincides with medium term support. Though pairs like EUR and GBP have a bit more to go down until they come to a similar sutation but I found that the correlation between AUD and those ...

No Brainer Trades

Yeah, we area bit funny like that. But the thing is if you start forgiving them with small things where is it going to end?

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