I took a nice Gold trade today. You can see that Gold in the medium term seemed to be heading lower and the retracement found strong resistance around the 1711 level causing a pin bar sell off. I placed an order to sell on the break of the pin bar targeting previous lows around 1696 which is 5 points. This trade hit nicely and all within around 20 minutes!
Today I entered short on Gold after seeing a breakdown in the price action. My stop was in the correct place but what I hadn't anticipated was how much money I could have lost when I placed the trade. I only realised what I had done after I had placed the order and it got triggered. I usually can deal with a 100 point (or pip) loss which amounts to around 2% of my capital. However, I had gone in at the same stake size as my normal trades but my stop was also the equivalent of 250 pips away wh
