One day

USDJPY, 10 Pips Renko, M2

That's actually an update on previous entry.
EA got me out when price reversed.

XAUUSD, 10 Pips Renko, M2

Was trying to see if there enough juice in the move for another run but there wasn't so TP1 was hit and I closed the second trade.

I'm a day behind on posting so I'll post yesterday's trades and tomorrow I'll be posting today's trade, work and family and all so don't have a lot of time.

It's been hectic at work yesterday and I was under some pressure so my entries and decisions were sub par, at best.
I also discovered that my EA is taking me out of trades too early and it makes me take more trades than I should. I'll have to think of better settings for it.

CADJPY, 10 Pips Renko, M2

Got in too early, even though I was going for a quick setup, it was too early.
TP1 was hit, EA got me out for a small profit on the second trade.
I'm very happy I didn't try to hammer this pair as it pulled back.

EURAUD, 10 Pips Renko, M2

Was hammering this pair, multiple local lower highs and local lower lows but a local higher high got in the way and reversed things on me.
I was too busy to manage these trades so some went into profit and some went into loss.
Not a good trade or behavior on my part. There were other pairs in which I wasn't sharp enough so I'll need to review and study these setups.

EURJPY, 10 Pips Renko, M2

Not sure why I entered these trades, I was at work and it looked nice.
But that's the thing, I should have more than just "it looks nice".
In retrospective, I can justify the first entries and once they were in profit and EA got me out, I just joined back in on the move.
That had happened several times, I got nice profits out of this move but I would have liked handling it better.

EURUSD, 10 Pips Renko, M2

Price failed at making a new local higher high, I joined in at the end of the small pull back, placed a few pending orders and went about my business at work.
EA handled most of the trades.

NZDJPY, 10 Pips Renko, M2

I placed some pending orders on an area at which I thought price would reverse, as this was looking like a slow upwards move.
I'm still stuck with this trade, tightened the SL, will watch it unfold.

XAUUSD, 100 Pips Renko, M2

This was supposed to be a quick in and out and it did right that.
Got in after a series of local lower highs and local lower lows, was aiming for a small TP as a support area was right there.

So, Friday.

First time I'm in the middle of a Red News Event since I've rebooted my path, at first I was at a little loss which was great because I was in a bit larger loss to start with, I left my screen for two minutes and returned to find a whooping 80$ DD.
At first I didn't do nothing but than it became apparent things are not going my way and I fell back into my old habits and in a matter of minutes I've made things worse.
What I am proud of, was the fact that I was able to stop, take a deep breath, close some of my trades, which was a huge step because usually I let my losing trades go into margin call, eye the others and decide to stick with them and leave the screen, go out, walk my pup and do some work in my small garden.
I've returned later to evaluate the situation and analyse where I've lost my nerves and calm.
Someone here quoted someone else saying that the fear of leaving pips on the table is greater than the fear of losing.
Well, I had both combined can't say I'm over it but after examining my charts and myself, I think I am better equipped to face another step forward.
I've also found out that most of my bias was leaning towards those pre-maturely closed trades that the EA had closed because of the bug in it, so I've took the time and fixed it, I hope, but as far as I can tell, it is now working as expected of it.

Market is opening in a few minutes, tomorrow is going to be riddled with meetings so I've set my EA with hard stops just in case.


Let another week begins and another step taken forward.

Another week had passed.

During this week I took the time to analyse my trades and fix my EA with the help of some very nice and good people so now, other than a visual glitch from time to time, everything is working as I wanted it to.
I like this forum

Nearly all of the trades from last Friday had either hit SL or were managed manually to Profit or smaller Loss. There's currently one trade running which is the last of them all. It's in a small profit but is stuck so I'll probably close it later on so I can start fresh again this week.
I've also decided to re-arrange my charts a bit so this week, while I traded very little and mostly for correcting my own mistakes, was more administration then trading but I'm very pleased with it, I got to fix my EA, which is important, and it helps me set up a fix overall SL per pair so I won't drag my trades on a whim.

All things considered, it could have been worse and I'm very happy that the outcome is not only smaller loss but also my own personal growth.

I hope I'll get some setups this week so I'll be able to continue with my trading analysis and progress and get more charts uploaded here.

All things considered, I didn't have a great week of trading.
I wasn't on top of my game, with work and family issues my mind was so off I'm just happy I didn't blow out my account or something.

Now, for the charts of last week.

CADJPY, 10 Pips Renko, M2

I thought I was taking a continuation trade, TP1 was hit, second and third trades went into DD and were stopped by the EA for around 15$ loss.

EURAUD, 10 Pips Renko, M2

Took the trades after a very small pull back, TP1 was hit, second trade was closed by the EA.

EURCAD, 10 Pips Renko, M2

Placed three pending trades after the pull back, TP1 and TP2 were hit, third trade closed for a small profit.
Later on placed another batch of three pending trades, all went to loss and were closed by the EA for 21$ loss.

EURNZD, 10 Pips Renko, M2

Took two trades at the break of the previous low, after some DD both closed in profit.
Placed two trades after the break of the previous low (was taken on my phone, it looked better than on my PC screen, I would have waited more if I was trading from home), TP1 was hit, second trade was BE.
Placed three pending trades at what I thought would be an early entry into a continuation zone, all went into DD and were closed by the EA for 20$ loss.

EURUSD, 10 Pips Renko, M2

Was hammering this pair, on my phone it looked like a nice pull back before a move upwards, not sure I woulod have taken it on my PC screen.

GBPAUD, 10 Pips Renko, M2

Placed two long trades at what I thought was a continuation of the upward move, both trades were closed by the EA for a 20$ loss.

GBPCAD, 10 Pips Renko, M2

After price failed to create new local higher high, placed three pending orders at the forming (at the time) fractal.
I wasn't able to follow and add more trades to this trade as I was busy with family issues and family is more important.
TP1 and TP2 were hit, EA closed the third trade in profit.

GBPNZD, 10 Pips Renko, M2

Placed three pending trades at the break (looked better on my phone) of the previous low.
Tp1 and TP2 were hit, EA closed the third trade.
I wasn't feeling too sure with myself to re-enter.