Disliked{quote} I can't tell if it's just absolutely terrible luck or if I'm being hunted. Here are literally the last 4 trades I've taken: I took a long at 3/16 and got stopped at 1.1880 (8 pip stop, stopped by the spread) before going up I took a short at 3/18 and got stopped at 1.1989 (10 pip stopped by the spread) before massively dropping I took a long at 3/19 and I moved my stop further than I normally do to 1.1875 (16 pip stop, low was 1 pip). 1.1874 was the low of the day (1 pip) before retracing to 1.19104 I took a long 2 days ago and decided to...Ignored
Set your stops to breakeven aggressively if you're going to intraday scalp and be aware that the market will come back for them. Ideally (and I've learnt this through months of bitter experience) enter your position when they come back, not as they're breaking away. Confirmation then wait for pullback is always the best way. In terms of hard analysis, yea- I journal absolutely everything and analyse my mistakes hard, more than my successes. I highly recommend this!
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