Large Moves That May Contine

This is the only thing that's worked for me in all my losing years. Not an attractive first line, I know. I also can't spend a lot of time trading lately. So I'll be here infrequently.

I'm going to look for large moves in only the majors.
I'm looking for this move to be one that is obvious and makes a big impression on the chart.
Time frame is 15m to 60m.
I'm not looking to trade this swing, but the continuation of it.
There will be a very long but unknown length of time that has smaller time frame chart patterns that all look very nice and very enticing but are not going to follow through.
After a lot of these setup failures, there will be either a loss of interest, or more of the same, or the one event that can be traded back into the direction of the giant.

I'll also add charts of what I'm talking about from my past trading. I have slides somewhere on the hd. I think FF is great. Happy trading.

This chart is so perfect for many reasons. It is exactly what I'm looking for to trade. It makes me really want to change my schedule so that I can trade during these hours.

You know, no matter what you use, as you say, not the most popular approach, as you think, it can really be your luck and the format that will bring you profit. In fact, we often worry about the fact that we are not getting results from some popular strategies, because it seems that we are doing something wrong. But I think that each of us should use something that helps us. And this is really the main thing. Sometimes breaking the rule is the best solution that gives freedom, the necessary profit and even understanding of the market. So, act, evaluate your results as critically as possible and do not be afraid of difficulties.
And I certainly want to wish you success in your courageous decision!

Looks obvious on this one so I'm short. It's been a long time since I traded, but I'm in on this one.

It takes a lot to get through the mental blocks, but even after that, it still takes more and more.... thanks.

So I'm out of course, for a few reasons but it has more follow thru. I think I'm ok (mentally) with that.

I entered late but it was so compelling that I went for it, however, small size, actually the minimum lot size. Then as it pulled back away from me (losing) I watched the 5m and that bar had a top tail so as price was improved for my short, I added a second, also small lot. Then price again pulled back against those 2 entries (losing more but relatively insignificant amount) I added for a 3rd time, same small lot size. I also adjusted my stop exit for above the one hour bar since it was coming to a close and if that bar was an bull bar, then I'm out, rather than the much farther away, distant one hour pivot above. (which was my initial stop)

Just some management notes above.

I am currently missing about a double move as I got in gains as there is much more follow thru, but I don't risk much at all after 11am ET as a rule. Also, there was a potential for minor support as price fell and paused momentarily at that pivot from earlier, just prior to that exhaustive move up into the BIG MONEY MOVE DOWN <- which was my basis for this short.

OTOH, that was such a perfect short, I should still be in it. I was just a bit nervous wondering if I know wtf I'm doing since I haven't traded in a while. So I rang the cash register for a stick of gum.

I just realized I have a type-o on the title of this thread, should of course, say, CONTINUE

Currently long on the 2 leg 15m pull back EU
here's the 5m

on the trading platform, it didn't pull back enough times for me to get my 3rd add in, not sure how much longer I'll stay in this since it's my rule to exit around this time of day.

I'm out; killed it on the failure to respond the the pullback on UJ, it should've gone up at that point, so as UJ resumed a little more move up, EU was going to have more pressure; also, 11:30am ET is London close and it was getting choppy without much FT. I did manage to add a 3rd lot on of of the pullbacks. More practice for pennies.

Here's my exit point showing correlation of EU failing to positively respond to dip in UJ and then UJ looking a bit more bullish on this small time frame, so I killed EU long.

I traded today, didn't make much and got impatient with lack of follow thru, but there are plenty of reasons why EU was stagnant at my trade points.
So there was a large leg up from a base. I took that as the large move that may continue. Then there was a pullback, but I don't take the first one after a big move. There was a 2-leg pullback. I liked it. Then on 5m there was a good bull bar that closed on it's high. That was my entry reason. That bar is at 'a.' Then I was looking for the inevitable pull back to add to my position, but it bounced a little and moved up so I added at my initial entry at 'b.' Then the next pull back was also popping up quickly, so I added another lot at 'c.' At this point, I want to see follow thru, but it didn't, so I'm now getting tired of this, but this is my technique and I'm sticking with it so on the next dip against my position, I added another lot at 'd.' That's 2 pullbacks against my position that I'm fine with adding, but then it pulled back more and I'm getting nervous, but again, this is what I do, so I added another lot at 'e.' This is now 5 lots, more than usual, but I'm committed to this because I'm confident in it and it's the only technique that has ever worked for me in all my years of trading. Ok, so my patience is pretty much run out and the typical correlations are either not helping my position, or are not present and there is a trend line above and time is running out in the London session, so I'm down more than I'd like to be, but as swiss dipped, it helped this EU long for a little bit and just enough for it to meet my initial 2 entries including the spread and so I'm out. I killed it all at 'f.' Then it dipped quickly on a fast down bar, but still at a higher low than my final add-to point, so I really, really wanted to re-enter but I didn't. It would've been ok for a scalp, but I was starting to feel and that means I'm spent. My focus is questionable at the point where I start to feel anything at all. 2 1/2 hours of work for tiny gain, but it's a gain after other gains and other days of not trading for lack of my specific requirements for a trade, and today was the largest size I've traded in a while. So I'm fine with this.

I was posting in the EURUSD thread at the time I was trading. This is the summary with chart. Trade your plan - corrman

trying the insert chart again here...

It began this current move following the red line, up then down a little, which I shorted but only got a scalp. Then as it intersected the orange line, it took that one up to prior highs here now at 5am ET to the level of the high of last week, the horizontal black line there between "a," and "c." So the question remains, will it also move up to the end of the orange line? I think that it may, but it went up to here so fast, it's likely going to correct either in time, price, or both. Considering this is a 1h chart, probably both. Which means that this large move that may continue, may pause for a long time that may not be successfully traded for some time. I'll watch, but not for long. I'll sleep and do other work and not be overly motivated since it's ok to miss some of the consolidation phase.