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Quoting mizuno
Order for NZD/USD. There's a divergence which can be seen on the charts, I'll use that as my TP. You can see the stop placement also. The upper border has four visual touches, and three touches if you consider the sequence. The bottom border has three visual touches, but only two if the sequence is considered. Thus I'm using this border as entering for a buy trade, I am offered a stop outside the day's range which I'm gladly taking, and there's a good chance that the upper border will be broken because of the number of touches. No reverse planned...
Both orders stopped out.
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Quoting mizuno
Here's a scenario on GBP/CHF....
Was stopped out. The size of the main diagonal was 80 pips, and it did not go that much after breaking upwards.
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gbpchf got me too.. although we traded them both a little differently.

I was still in when it went crazy with news announcement.
Quoting mizuno
Unexpectedly I had to be a friend's guide for the whole Monday, and today I had to take the same friend to the airport, so I was thrown off my usual routine, and when that happens I usually start procrastinating. So to combat that:

Just sold USD/CHF with a stop outside the day's range. You can see the entry point on the charts. I have a reverse order in place, with a stop below the current day's low. TP is optimistic, targeting an unfilled divergence on H2, though if the trade goes positive I'll most likely close half of the trade before the...
I'm removing the reverse order as the stop would have to be 50 pips, and that's roughly 50% of ADR, which I find unacceptable.

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Thread title makes me laugh
Quoting tdion
Thread title makes me laugh
But it says the truth
Quoting mizuno
I'm removing the reverse order as the stop would have to be 50 pips, and that's roughly 50% of ADR, which I find unacceptable.

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It seems USD/CHF is forming a comb like formation. I am using this formation as a basis for the reverse order. I'll use a local intraday stop at 0.9950, because the R:R is sexier this way, but this increases the risk accordingly. I am also moving the stop slightly, which can be seen on the charts.

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Quoting mizuno
It seems USD/CHF is forming a comb like formation. I am using this formation as a basis for the reverse order. I'll use a local intraday stop at 0.9950, because the R:R is sexier this way, but this increases the risk accordingly. I am also moving the stop slightly, which can be seen on the charts.

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My reverse buy did not get activated and I ended up in a sell position after all. I have to admit that I had no solid TP point, and since it seems that there's a new divergence against my sell forming on M30, I have decided to take half of the profits to have a peace of my mind. Actually, just as I've written this, on the news which I forgot to mention, the price broke the downwards pointed wedge to the upside.
I am leaving the rest of the position run at break even.
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Placing a buy order for EUR/CHF based on symmetry. It is similar to the USD/JPY buy order that wasn't triggered. Stop - 30 pips, which is roughly 20% of 44ADR. Order placed 15 pips above the TL, with the stop being 15 pips behind the level.

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Buy order on GBP/USD. Stop - below the current day's low. TP based on a divergence. Hopefully I'll be able to trail the order a bit lower with time, with increased R:R. No plan for a reverse order yet.
Also, EUR/CHF is very close to picking up my buy order.

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Quoting mizuno
Buy order on GBP/USD. Stop - below the current day's low. TP based on a divergence. Hopefully I'll be able to trail the order a bit lower with time, with increased R:R. No plan for a reverse order yet.
Also, EUR/CHF is very close to picking up my buy order.

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Was stopped out on both of my trades. Had to use a new low for USD/CHF, and reversing would've required a stop with an excessive distance, so I did not reverse. With EUR/CHF it kind of did not make sense to me at that moment to use a reverse for a trade like that, and the stop would have had to be inside the day's range. Let's look around for other opportunities.
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Quoting mizuno
My reverse buy did not get activated and I ended up in a sell position after all. I have to admit that I had no solid TP point, and since it seems that there's a new divergence against my sell forming on M30, I have decided to take half of the profits to have a peace of my mind. Actually, just as I've written this, on the news which I forgot to mention, the price broke the downwards pointed wedge to the upside.
I am leaving the rest of the position run at break even.
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The rest of the position was stopped out shortly after.
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Sell order for EUR/USD. There is a divergence on M30 pointing to 1.315, so that could be used as a reverse TP. However by the time I'm posting this,the price is making new lows and thus the level for a reliable stop is rendered useless. Let's see further development. Not sure of a TP for the sell yet.

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Quoting mizuno
Sell order for EUR/USD. There is a divergence on M30 pointing to 1.315, so that could be used as a reverse TP. However by the time I'm posting this,the price is making new lows and thus the level for a reliable stop is rendered useless. Let's see further development. Not sure of a TP for the sell yet.

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Sell trade was stopped out, reverse triggered. You can see the stop on the chart. You can also see how the orders were trailed manually. TP - 1.315 (M30 divergence)
Looks like there was a diamond too, a break of which offered better R:R. No worries, let's see what happens now.
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Quoting mizuno
Sell trade was stopped out, reverse triggered. You can see the stop on the chart. You can also see how the orders were trailed manually. TP - 1.315 (M30 divergence)
Looks like there was a diamond too, a break of which offered better R:R. No worries, let's see what happens now.
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I'm moving the stop to BE, as price is close to filling the divergence.
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Quoting mizuno
I'm moving the stop to BE, as price is close to filling the divergence.
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Trade successfully reached its target.
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Next order - EUR/NZD wedge sell. Stop above the day's high, if the main move of the day changes then I want to get out of this thing. TP - lower border. Not going to reverse as the stop would have to be inside the day's range.
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Quoting mizuno
Trade successfully reached its target.
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Next order - EUR/NZD wedge sell. Stop above the day's high, if the main move of the day changes then I want to get out of this thing. TP - lower border. Not going to reverse as the stop would have to be inside the day's range.
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Was stopped out. Also it looks like there's a diamond forming, but the borders are a bit hard to define at the moment, and the move sequence is messy.

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Also tried buying the break of a diamond, which was in the opposite direction of the main diagonal. But the news came out and stopped me out very quickly.
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Next target - buying the break of a diamond, in the opposite direction of the main diagonal. Unfortunately an intraday stop will have to be used. The diamond is at a very nice location.

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I'd like to sell the break of the following trendline, as it would give a stop outside the day's range. However, there is a divergence pointing to 1.556, so instead I'm going to wait for a false break, and buy it when the price jumps back on the trendline, and use the divergence as a target. Though of course I'll have to watch it closely, and it might go without me.

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To see the divergence I had to use a non-standard 45 minute TF.
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Just applied 18.3 on USD/JPY. I'll leave the trade run until the end of day. Stop - 83.1.

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