Rub's accountability

Alright, this I going to be more or less my trade journal. I have a trade explorer and a live account set up, I'm intending to post trades here close to when I taken them. This is intended to be a clean slate start from 1st July 2020.

Basic rules are risk of no more than 6% at risk at any one time, generally 2% a trade unless I'm pyramiding into a trade.

Smaller time frames (under an hour) are similar concepts, but risk to be kept 1% or less.

Weekends will be analysis, and I'll generally be concentrating on one or two pairs during the week based on that.

I reckon I've mostly been having trouble with discipline, so this thread is to help keep me accountable to hold that.
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Important links:

Strat's two threads:
https://www.forexfactory.com/showthread.php?t=155459
https://www.forexfactory.com/showthread.php?t=708441

Pharley's two threads:
https://www.forexfactory.com/showthread.php?t=551541
https://www.forexfactory.com/showthread.php?t=592827

Trend trading all pairs by NightMoves
https://www.forexfactory.com/showthread.php?t=208630

I'm sure I've forgotten plenty I should be writing here, but I think that covers the basics.

The first trade:

GBPJPY trade, looking to ride this one for a while. Good example of why I started the thread too, hourly chart shows why.
Enry was from the bottom of a weekly control candle, with a strong daily bar from a trendline.

Another entry, closed above the previous day's high. Stops moved up to 133.58, risk kept the same level.

Had a new high overnight, should price try the top of the weekly control candle (shaded box) I'll see what it does.

All stops moved up to 134.35. Small profit it it's hit, and clears me to enter another trade. Also setting a pending order on USDCAD, and will upload pics after work.

Had a bit of a brain fart after a long day at work and clicked sell instead of by. Twice. Close immediately both times though, and entered another buy.

The promised USDCAD sell I have pending. Willing to also sell from the 50% retrace of the daily bar.

Closed everything, pending order, in profit or not when I got home. Not really expecting to have a job at the end of Monday, someone completely misconstrued a comment I made about spending the weekend locked in watching netflix. Unfortunately for me, that someone is the owner's daughter.

So everything is closed, and I'm trying to get my head straight, and half expecting I might have to make this work.

Currently watching GBPCAD, and EURNZD. Might see if I can watch the 5 minute charts tonight and catch a move.

Looking at it, I should've taken profit at the point I moved to break even. Price hit the 1hr 200EMA and bounced. Still watching the EURNZD on 4hr to see if there's an entry there, it's tested the trendline I drew and may close as a new high.

EDIT: re-entered, but got stopped out at break even again when I moved my stop when price hit the prior low.

Also had EURNZD close as a higher close, so set a pending order that's been triggered.

Quick and dirty in and out trade on EURAUD on 5 minute as I'm still in EURNZD based on higher time frames. TP hit quickly once it got moving, but the R:R wasn't great.

There's also GBPJPY tonight.Entry maybe a bit early in the London session, and price went just far enough to stop me out.
Although price straddled the strat shadow and made a new low I don't think a trend had been established. Jumped in too early.

And I can't be stuffed sitting watching this any more, on to the beers.

Entered again on EURNZD, same target near the top of the WCC. About a 1.5:1 R:R, so probably won't be entering again unless I see something really tempting on a lower time frame.

Trades on EURNZD stopped out, one at BE (moved to BE to take full risk on 2nd trade), one a loss.
Think I went wrong trading into daily 200ema.

Pending order set at 50% retrace of this swing, also at the major resistance turned support (hopefully!). Risk of 2%. To me price is going up in all the time frames h4, daily and weekly, with a good couple of hundred pips it can run before it hits resistance.

My pending order on EURJPY got tagged, I'm now moving my stop to BE+2 pips, it looks to be struggling to break above 123.00

Predictably, got stopped out at BE+2 while I was asleep. Looks like the market is consolidating at the moment, hard to trade.

I've set a buy stop on GBPAUD, I have to go out for an appointment at the time the candle closes. I like it being from the bottom of the weekly control candle, with the weekly and daily clearly rejecting support. ~65 pip stop and risk of 2%.

Pending order set, and stop moved up on the first order to a little over break even.