Disliked{quote} Sorry, I'm just trying to figure out how you trade if you don't try to anticipate where it's going. Perhaps this is where I'm going wrong, but from my perspective the mere fact that I enter a buy position for example, by definition must mean that I think that price is going to be higher in the future than it is at present and that I must also think that if it actually goes lower in the future, that it won't go lower than the point that I put my SL at. If I didn't think it was going to go higher, I wouldn't put a buy position on. Vice versa...Ignored
However, Im a big fan of using the word follow not anticipate. In fact in most cases where I think price will not break S/R levels I wait for the confirmation. Of course im not 100% right but 2 of 3 correct is quite good.
So, yes, you must have formed an idea of the likely scenario playing out, up or down and by how much otherwise there would no trade entry level or stop loss level
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