Actually started today off with a winning trade. 5 min GJ LH with the current hourly bar bearish and price closed nicely below the 8 LWMA. I was up about 20 so I moved my stop loss to +10 because there was USD news coming out. When the news came out ...

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I just wanted to add my thoughts on the 4 pairs I watch for the London/NY overlap. EU was ranging basically the whole time so no way I would have tried to trade that, I can barely trade trends so why would I try to trade a range. EJ and GJ both had ...

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Finally a winning trade, closed when I was up 1 pip but at least it's better than losing more pips. Chart is attached, the arrow shows the HL I based the trade off. The check mark is where I got out, it looks like more than 1 pip but after the ...

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First trade this morning was a 5 min LH on EU. Got stopped out at -12. The chart is attached, at most I was up 6 pips which didn't feel like enough to move stop to break even. Price wasn't moving to fast until the last bar stopped me out. Time to ...

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A fractal is a 5 bar formation so after the 5th bar closes, two bars after the fractal appears, it will not move. Hope this helps. trublu

Fractals indicator question

Thank you for your quick response Vantage and yes you covered all my questions. I'll add on the W and M pivot levels and watch the levels you talked about. I've thought about waking up earlier to trade some of the London session, I will try to do it ...

Higher low, lower high system

Most recent losing trade was a LH on the 5 min GU. Won't go much into detail on my thoughts on it as I've posted a question on vantage's HL/LH thread about it. The result was -15. So definitely not a good day so far, but that happens, can't win them ...

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Great thread Vantage, you make it look so easy. I have a question on the attached charts if this is a trade you would have taken. The first chart is the 1 hour chart showing that the last 3 hours have been down candles, so I'm thinking look for LH's ...

Higher low, lower high system

First trade of the day was a Dark Cloud Cover on the GU 5 min chart (second chart). I took it because it was hitting the 13 EMA, with the overall downtrend, hitting the 25 psych line and yesterday's low. However the one hour candle was moving up. I ...

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Missed some good trades on the 5 min today as well as a lot of easy 1 min continuation trades since a lot of pairs just tanked and kept forming some nice LH's during the down trend but I missed them. It's frustrating missing all these good trades, I ...

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Really good trending before NY open which seems to happen a lot. So far this morning haven't seen anything worth trading, was thinking about a few trades right after NY opened but they didn't move how I wanted and then the news messed things up so ...

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Asia session has just begun and so now I'll be looking at the markets again but I'm still looking for some trends to form. I've attached a chart showing EU on the 5 min and you'll notice the severe lack of a trend which is why I'm not trading ...

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Here is the chart of my failed EU trade, got out at -7. Tried to trade the LH where the arrow is. I was up about 10 at one time and should have closed but held on. I should have at least gotten out at BE or -2 when I realized price couldn't close ...

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Here is an example of re-entering a trade using the 1 min chart. This chart is of EJ and the arrow shows a HL where you could have added on to your 5 min trade. As you can see price stalled at that pivot line but it could have gotten you an extra 10 ...

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Here is an example of using the 1 hour to see which way to trade and where you could have traded a HL on the 5 min on the EJ (There was also the same trade on the GJ). The first chart shows the 5 min EJ and the arrow on the right side of the chart ...

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Here are some charts showing the 3 trades I took today during the NY/London overlap. The first chart shows the EU 1 min where I took a HL trade for +20. The bar I've highlighted with the blue rectangle is the one I considered as a HL and I took the ...

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I'm pretty sure most use the SDX-TzPivots indicator, I know Islander said he did in post #4683 and vantage I think has it on his charts too, not sure what EV uses.You can find SDX-TzPivots in the attachments for the thread. Hope that helps. trublu

Psych Levels, Pivots, and Trendlines - Resurrected

Thanks for posting the indicator A-game and I agree on Feb's thread, I used to follow it when I was looking at fractals more often, I'll have to start following it again. trublu

Looking for a Fractal Channel Type Indicator/EA

I actually haven't looked at trading with fractals in a long time, I think I should go back to them. Done some back testing on other things and still haven't found out a good way to trade so maybe some back tracking will help me out. I completely ...

Looking for a Fractal Channel Type Indicator/EA