This was quite disappointing... the market dipped below the lower band to trigger my short but it didn't stay there long. It shot up, took out my stop at 50 pips away and trigger the long. The long got me my 30 pips but it flew 60 pips in total. -50 and +30 = -20 pips for the day...
I don't tend to trade Bank Holidays as volumes are low and traders are generally off taking long weekends. These are times when the markets can do funny things. I didn't trade today but in hindsight, our system would have worked and bagged our 30 pips. For reference, here is the chart, the upper line is at 14493 and the lower at 14444. The market hits a high of 14550 which is almost 100 pips.
Friday was coming up to the Bank Holiday weekend. A lot of traders will pack up early and go on a nice long weekend break. Usually volumes are low but I thought I'd put on the usual trades today.... It was not a good day however, you can see that the long trade was initiated at 14568 and it peaked at that point at 14592 (24 pips) before falling and hitting my stop. The short trade was at 14521 and went to 14491 (exactly 30 pips but including my spread, my stop wasn't hit) and went up. I ha
