another breakout trade — another 20 pips off the break of the round number that was tested 3 times ... up 34.5% since i started.

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breakout trade ... — WOOHOO ... another breakout off major support level (yesterday's low) which was tested repeatedly before busting thru; took 30 pips off & moved stop loss to 10+ pips; took the other 10 off at 3000 (round number = support) ...

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aussie session 5 min trades — pin bar off mid-BB w/ the trend; 0.1 pips; im such a dope pin bar off the upper band w/ the trend, followed by IB, followed by bar that makes a double low & creates a sandwich out of the IB ... took this ...

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5 mins — some great price action. played the 1st one, but chickened out ... [see post below #1]; missed the 2nd one ...

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monday 5 min scalps - 2nd session — definite improvement here: long play off the break of the IB; closed at 6 pips long play off the pin bar w/ divergence; got nervous again & bailed earlier than necessary; 5 pips play off break of 5 bar ...

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monday's 5 min scalps — 1st session: pin bar; took it short; 4 bottoms started forming & instead of seeing it thru, i chickened out; then, for some reason unbeknownst to me, i placed another buy order ... not off to a great start after my ...

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tuesday daily scalp watchlist — USDCHF ... bearish pin bar/shooting star EURCHF ... double high that is going to close lower AUDJPY ... double high (w/in 5 pips) that is going to close lower EURCAD ... dbl low that is not going to close ...

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update on daily scalp trades — 1st 3 trades losers (GBPUSD, USDCAD, GBPCHF). missed sunday orders due to travel. back in time to place monday orders which were as follows: EURUSD; bearish outside bar; target reached (would have reached 62%) ...

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make that ... — 12% for the week ...

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daily scalps — all time-stopped except the USDCAD & GBPUSD which were stop-lossed out. everything i touch this week has turned to stone. TGIF so i cant get into any more trouble!

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yesterday's 5 min scalp session(s) — net 11% ... so far net 28% since i started. this is definitely a consolation to my daily chart trading ...

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5 min USDJPY — spotted this one as i was studying divergence.

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market close/aussie open scalps — couple of trades i took: NY/Chicago close; pin bar off 1 hour MA support line; was on the phone so i closed it out at 5 pips ... Aussie open; breakout trade from ascending triangle at the resistance ...

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thursday's watchlist — GBPUSD ... bullish PB; taking it EURGBP ... double bottom (w/in 5 pips) in a short trend; passing USDCHF ... price hit 1490 & came down again; engulfing candle, but needs to close above 1406 to be tradeable (or below ...

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thursday morning pairs overview — EURUSD ... stalled at 3345 support level & is not hanging at 3443 support level. nothing to trade here today (could have banked some pips off that pin bar had i taken pips off at 150% range) GBPUSD ... bullish ...

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thursday morning updates — no change ... still swimming in a see of red ... did i forget to say good luck to me or something?

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USDCAD ... IB — in case i wondered in the morning ... i took my 100 pips on this one and ran ...

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5 min scalps — these actually worked out for me: 1. pin bar followed by IB that created a double bottom ... 8 pips 2. IB, went w/ the trend on this ... long; gave me some grief in the beginning, but go my 10 pips on this 3. bearish RP which ...

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GBPCHF update — stopped out ...

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a little back-testing — anyway, im reviewing some of the trades that im stuck in against my latest (greatest ... haha) idea to scalp off the dailies ... USDJPY ... would have been stopped out (presently, im up to my eyeballs in red) AUDUSD ... ...

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