I bought the USD/JPY pair at 93.75 as it broke the bearish 5 minute pattern. I had initially put on a 100 pip target with a 50 pip stop. The market hit a short term peak of 94.15 and then headed lower.. I waited to see if it would go up against it again and yes, it did and start it fall away from it.. hmm, I could take my profit or wait to see what would happen. Looking at the 4 hour chart, the chart looks like it may go lower so I took my profit at 94.10 for 35 profit.
I just closed out a couple of trades for a +37 and +49 profit... I have already broken the rule from my previous email which says that I should run with winners and close out losers. I have closed out my winners here but at least, it was in profit.
I put on a trade today, the USDCHF short. I have a trading channel as drawn and then I went out with my stop in place. I expected the market to fall and it did fall sharply at one point. If I were around I would have probably closed the position early after it bounced off the bottom of the trading channel. It rose from this and broke above the high of the channel triggering my stop for -50. It is extremely annoying when this happens as at one stage, this trade was +50 up when it reached the b
