Trading Journal 22 Aug
Trading Journal 22 Aug
Prices above 10, 20 and 50 ema. All 3 ema sloping up and parallel
Prices above 10, 20 and 50 ema. All 3 ema sloping up and parallel
Price below 10, 20 and 50ema. All 3 ema sloping down and parallel
Continuation of Trade 5
Prices above 10, 20 and 50 ema. All 3 ema sloping up and parallel
Prices below 10, 20 and 50 ema. All 3 ema sloping down and parallel
Prices currently in a downswing. 10, 20 and 50 ema were sloping up
and parallel but there was a deep retracement going on on daily
chart. Prices retraced to 50 ema on daily chart at time of entry.
Prices above 10, 20 and 50 ema. All 3 ema sloping up and parallel. 10
ema turning horizontal. There was retracement to 20ema and
confluenced with previous resistance turned support.
Prices above 10, 20 and 50 ema. All 3 ema sloping up and parallel
Current Trend
H4 trend horizonal. Not good at all. That’s why did not have
confidence in the trade.
N.A
N.A
H4 trend horizonal. Not good at all. That’s why did not have
confidence in the trade. 10 and 20 ema very close together
Short term down trend. First time waiting for trailing buy stop.
Short term down trend. trailing buy stop activated by limit order.
Support / Resistance
Prices open and close above 20ema with low below 20ema.
N.A
Short term support at 1.1679 and price rejected at this level.
Good point for entry
N.A 1.1777
Higher high, higher close after price exited Kill zone
between 20 and 50 ema 1.1777
Previous candle is lower low, lower close. However, it
was not trending, despite exiting from kill zone between
20 and 50em. 1.1125
70 0.7868 50
64 1.1613 35
60 1.1216 35
91 1.1653 33
40 1.12 34
225 0.725 83
170 50
37 15 then BE
Opening Remarks
Strong long term trend. No real trigger or value at entry point. No strong trend in lower tf. Did not understand how to set ta
end set at low of previous swing and high of previous swing.
No strong trend in shorter TF. Was stopped out by 1 pip before prices turned back up immediately. Should review the stopl
Too small SL. No real value or trigger at lower tf. Maybe should wait for price to enter between 20 and 50ema and get out o
before trading. This may cause the risk/reward to be higher, but at least got confirmation.
Not much confidence. Was very worried after entering. Prices shot up immediately after entry. Waited for it to come down
But prices did not fall any further. Well supported in the tight range
Entered because daily was still in an uptrend and H4 was in a strong downtrend. Have not started using trailing buy stop str
Was feeling quite confident when entering. Start of trying a new strategy.
Impulsive order while doing nothing. Price went up quickly and promptly set to BE.
Closing Remarks
did not follow trade plan. Do no have confidence. When target was hit, entered again 0.5 contract, it did not move for a lo
N.A
N.A
had been monitoring the market non stop. Was ranging in a small price range. Just before the big and urgent move up, it a
appeared that prices were falling. Without confidence in the system, exited the trade. next thing i know, prices shot up from
(another 78 pips). Learn to trust a system
N.A
Did not follow trade plan. For second position, should have been a trailing stop loss. Prices went up another 68 pips before
was not very sure if the initial target was set too high. The upwards move took more than 1 day to happen. Not confident e
it will hit the target. Took half profit quite early.
prices did not move for an entire day. Until suddenly stopped out by a quick rise. Thereafer, price consolidate again. Overal
not have been taken.
Price eventually fell below the stop loss by 28 pips before coming up sharply. Maybe due to us and north korea and also go
Price came back down to BE then moved up slightly again. Wasted time monitoring. Not confident of the system, else will s
price first came back to BE. Should monitor to see if price eventually trended and sustain upwards.