I began trading about 5 years ago. I have traded stock, futures, oil and forex in different companies in my little Switzerland. I, like many people, tried to find THE system that will work every time and I found THE solution: "there is no such system!!!" I have tried so many strategies and system that it will take me an entire day to name them. I always wanted to catch the entire trend and broke my teeth such many times until I discovered Ichimoku. I understood that it is SO much better to catch 30 to 40% of a trend with high probability than try to catch tops and bottoms. Your way of using Ichimoku is very very good, just keep going this way. You will have losses but you will have a lot of winners too! But this is, unfortunately, no enough. The KEY of your new life is the MONEY MANAGEMENT. (Just a little story to show you my point: "when I was trading oil, I learned something that took my breathe away! When you trade oil, you need a really strong money management and you "only" need a 55% winning strategy to become multi-millionaire!) My point is that with Ichimoku your have a system that will give you more than 55% winniners if you use it following the rules(trust me!). All you need is to write down on a paper your MONEY MANAGEMENT and be patient (follow the rules don't be reckless) and next summer you will be somewhere on a beach in the Bahamas! Again your way of using Ichimoku is good! Continue to use it that way! Write down your money management (if you need help I'll show you a right way to do it) and let the market do the job! (It took me 16 months to achieve my goal: the 6 zero number!)
Which you all the luck in the world!
If I may help anybody here just let me now.!
Daboo.