Clear down moves from London open and I have taken only 1 short out of 9 trades. Definitely I need to start doing the charts study - staring on weekend. Positive day but easy money has been in shorts. image

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Couple of failed longs. 1st should have waited candle close. 2nd should have waited cleaner breakout failure long setup like last one was. image

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Today morning reminded myself - don't forget to take breakouts too. If my count is correct its 4 time when I get out of trade at high of candle. Just luck - at every candle high the are lucky winners, this time it was my turn. image

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Pushed my need on a market - I know market don't care about me. I was extremely lucky, toke the second change that market offered. image

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Looking back there was couple of short opportunities. Expected London lunch time chop and skipped them. Toke one more long. image

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First two hours for London open good move and then we start ranging. And range is getting smaller. Fakeout or breakout. Usually 2 hours of London are best for me. image

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You missed a word ...just one minute time frame...

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We can have rapid drop and as rapid move back up. Another winning long. image

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Good shorts. I came in today with fixed mindset. Looking for longs. I need to look both ways. Two more longs image

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1st long trailed myself out of trade with BE. Second one worked nice. Might have used trail stop too, all candle lows held. image

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I was in long mode, last two worked. Not a good start but back in zero. image

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TIP OF A DAY - don't short all time highs.

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Expected pre-London to take all time high. But when I saw struggle at 3 horizontal level zone decided to close long trade sooner. image

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How helpful have you find EMA ? For me it was confusing, I was going mostly long below it and short above it. I could not sake out of my head the common recommendation - long above, short below it.

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I let myself sucked in to the long trade. Gold held strength. I have seen that before, when gold made every day new all time highs, "prop-funded" people didn't believe it, could not accept it. The shorted and got burned. And ICT trades waited for a ...

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