Thanks jdcompute, My understanding is that the uptrend was still intact with the arrows showing higher highs and higher lows and the red horizontal line needed to broken for a trend change, but I could be wrong. Joel what do you think?

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Vince, The arrows on the chart show the higher highs and higher lows. Hope it helps.

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Hi Div, I took this trade on the long side (left arrow) and closed it out for a partial loss after the full red bar which closed below the SMA. A few minutes later, there was an opportunity to short (counter trend 123), indicated by the right arrow, ...

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Yes Div. I am fairly comfortable with trend trades now, have not taken any counter trend so far.

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Yes Div, I trade the London and US sessions. Initially, I was slightly confused about the swings, but now understand it.

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Thanks Div. Is it advisable to get in an hour prior to news release as was the case in the last trade?

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Hi Div, In the chart, the arrow shows the initial trigger bar and the next 2 bars don't trigger the entry, so shouldn't we wait for CCI to go into the negative and come back before considering the next trigger bar? Also, can't we enter after the ...

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Closed at slightly less than 1:1

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You are welcome.

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Hi Tex, Once the signal bar closes, I place a stop order 1 pip above (or below) the signal bar.

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True. Lesson learned.

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Thanks. That means the above case was a no trade.

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Hi Div, In the following chart the order got triggered on the 5th bar after the CCI turned 50 and closed above the SMA. Is it a valid trade? Do you have a maximum number of bars that you wait for before the entry is triggered? Thanks.

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Thanks to Div. This is a very consistent method.

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Today's London session trade.

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Hi Div, In the example below, for us to assume that the trend has changed to the down side, the red horizontal line must be taken out (with the red arrow being the previous higher low). Is my interpretation correct?

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He had suggested that he looks for 1:1 RR, so your profit target is the same distance as your stop loss.

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Thanks. This post clarified some of the doubts that I had.

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Thanks

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Since point #2 and the pullback to 1.3555 area happened after the swing low was taken out, those are not considered as swing points. I hope my understanding is right

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