Newbie trader here. I've been demoing for a few months, today was my first day of live trading.
I was in a trade for several hours. It wasn't going anywhere, and I didn't want to be in a trade anymore tonight, so I closed it out at even money. Immediately after I did that.. and I'm talking literally about 1 minute after I clicked the button... the price spiked like 40 pips, through my original target and then some.
So was my timing just incredibly un-lucky and my couple lots were just a drop in the bucket, or did I actually have some sort of effect on that by closing my position?
I was in a trade for several hours. It wasn't going anywhere, and I didn't want to be in a trade anymore tonight, so I closed it out at even money. Immediately after I did that.. and I'm talking literally about 1 minute after I clicked the button... the price spiked like 40 pips, through my original target and then some.
So was my timing just incredibly un-lucky and my couple lots were just a drop in the bucket, or did I actually have some sort of effect on that by closing my position?