BB, MACD, and everything else where appropriate

Three successful baskets this morning.
not sure how many pips... but profit after fees and commissions = $9.10
So somewhere upwards of 180 pips on three baskets opened and closed on the 1 min during London.
If that is indication of things to come, this is pretty exciting.
Believe it or not trading like this is a LOT less stressful...
Just figure out a good place to get in and let them fight it out.
This was one of the better ones. 1 min chart EURJPY
Small losers, big gainers. That's what we want to see.

I'll keep refining identifying entries for individual pairs using bb400, bb20 and macd base 1 on the one minute.
Right now stops are very wide but what I experienced this morning was that most of pairs were doing very nicely but one was a stinker.
I noticed after about 15 minutes that I got the entry on GPUSD wrong and was on the wrong side of the trade. So I closed it for a small loss and upped the net gain target by that much.
The rest of the pairs happily trundled along to reach the combined upped net gain target.

Out of the 9 pairs I am monitoring I found 4 that I felt I understood the probabilities well enough to open positions.
No news. Nothing to real move the markets. Initially I set net gain at 5., 50 pips.
But no significant activity in the markets so opted out for net gain 1... 14 pips. Not sure if the spreads are already accounted for. I think so.
That's it for now.
Will work on another project and come back after while.. to check the markets.
GPDAUD was the big winner.

After blowing up more demos than I can count or remember, it looks like I'm finally on my way.
The last 10 days have been consistent. I feel like when I look at the chart through my template filter, I can actually see where the bid and ask are going.
If I don't get the entry quite right, and I usually don't but if I have the general direction correct I open another position as it goes against me. I may have to do this 3 or 4 times, but when it turns around... it's usually fairly quickly and it's really spectacular. This happened so many times this week on many different pairs.
I may have a few pairs open at the same time. If there is an attractive net gain I'll close everything even if it means a small loss on one of the pairs. I was even able to surrender to a significant loss on GBPJPY when I realized I'd gotten the trend wrong. No biggy. the next few trades wiped out any losses and we live to trade another day.
Before I enter the trade I have my target and a general survey of what I expect. If it gets too fishy and looks like the landscape has drastically shifted I'll get out. But I have to have some idea of the big picture across time frames and in accordance with data releases, market opening and closings.
I won't trade if I am tired or not enthusiastic about. That's a loser right there.
This is my winning template...
400 bb, 20 BB, and MACD... It really has been phenomenal.. Let's see how it holds up next week.

Didn't really want to take a trade this morning. No data. No news.
But USDCHF had a set up I recognized... Everything else... nothing.
So I shorted. It was slow to come around and got out as soon as it showed a respectable gain... although I'm pretty sure there is more downside.
That's alright. I'm happy.

Forget MACD. Much simplified using 400 BB
Works best on lower time frames. 5 mins is great.
After a run when the prices comes inside the outer band on the 400 bb
enter short if on the upper band and long if inside the lower band. That's it.
If it bounces outside the band again wait for it to come back inside and short again if on the upper band and long again if inside the lower band.
Do this as many times as it takes before the prices revert to the mean... Which they always have to do eventually.
Increasing position size each time.
1% first position.
2% second position
3% third position etc.
It's something like a Martingale but not as dangerous. Increases profit and reduces losses.
This looks for a reversal to the mean.
One of the reasons I really like this way of trading is that the target is always known. The target is the mean.
Unlike a big move...where the target really isn't known.
But it is guaranteed that the prices will revert to the mean at some point.
Using the 400 means the move has been extensive and closing inside the band means it is getting ready to revert fairly soon.
I have the 20 sma on the chart just because it gives some visual perspective.
I don't actually use the mean itself as the target, since sometimes prices will come close to the mean but not actually close at it or beyond it. So I'm using a channel of 10 pips on the 5 min.
As usually happens the template I was using was getting very crowded with two macd's and 2 bb's. I ended up getting stuck long on EURUSD as it took a dive after the Fed speak.
That can't happen with this strategy. There can be losses.. But not runaway losses. Close is on the 10 pip channel of the median 400. simple...
Have been running it in the tester with fantastic results on different pairs and now have a few positions open held over the weekend.

Went in and out a few times on GBPUSD.
The target is a moving target as the median and the channels move lower.
So I will keep adjusting the take profit to coincide.
If it drops back and goes outside the lower band I will wait until it comes back inside and add a position for 2%
If it keeps going as is it would be between 25 and 35 pips.

Forgot to up the position size to 2% after the second drop below the upper band so entered two for 1%

Going to trade the 1 min with the 400 bb.. 5 pip channel
even on the 5 min building positions can get too expensive if it's behind a good run.