No Excitement Journal

Looking for:
1. Trending currency
2. Directional Move with trend
3. Pull back to an area with a confluence of multiple reasons to stop the Pull Back
4. Entry Signal - M / W / SHS / Power Candle
5. Supporting indicators

6. ESL at the last swing
7. TP at next pivot/line

Loss 1R

Loss 1.5R
(Moved stop away from trade to give it some room)

+ 3R
exited at S1

+1R
W Pull Back
Was almost at 2R (only 2 pips away) - but GBP was not supporting the trade on other pairs.
After expenses - up 1R so far today

28th July - no setups - no trades.
Did well to stay out while waiting.

Out at Break Even
Got out because neither he USD nor the CAD were supporting the trade.

Immediately upon exiting the USD continued down on all pairs.
Was up 1.1R and exited at 0.1R

How the above trade played out.
Price went past 1R
Then all the Cad and USD changed direction - the trade looked like it had no supporting evidence from other pairs.
So I exited with a tiny profit.
If I had let it go - it all went 2R in the long run.

+1R
1 hour breakout long
Price has broken throught the 1hr barrier and the BRN and the R1 - so it was likely to pop.
It went 1.4R (my stop was under the brn) and I exited at 1R as the day is coming to an end for me and I wanted to finish up if possible

The 1 hour chart for the above trade follows.

-1.25R loss
Thought it was a double bottom, after pull back in uptrend - breaking through the BRN and Pivot.
Just no follow through - I bought the top.
Had stop under the BRN

Loss 1.25R
Trading the USD weakness but the JPY was even weaker pushing the USD up.

Finished with 1R - but poorly traded.
Position 1 - was up 2R.
Because I was down 2R for the day, I wanted the profits back. THe correct thing to do was exit when the double top was in - for about 0.5R

Instead, it was not much further to pull back to the 20ema. So I waited and entered a second position.
Price blew through it and I entered again at the bottom.
I was facing a 5% loss at this point.
The last position was 'lucky' and proved to be the bottom. I scaled out of the trade as it moved in favour and exited the positions for a 1R gain.
Terrible trading.

What should I have done.
1. When the green outside up bullish bar had zero follow through, I should have exited at 1R

Loss 1R
Not a setup - just entered because I want action.

-5R
Friday night - wanted to finish on a high
Had two losses in a row
Wanted to get it all back
Added to a loser
CLosed it all out when it was clear that it wasnt coming back.
Loss 5R for the day.

loss 1.3R
Was up 1.5R with no reason to get out - then all the GBP reversed at the same time.

+ 0.8R

loss 1R

+2R
Trend
PB to ema
outside down bar
target 2R

Loss 0.6 R