Hey xfactornos,xfactornos » Sat Aug 20, 2016 12:09 am wrote:any trades today? hows it going?
Been busy with testing other stuff and so could only take one live trade yesterday on GBPJPY as per the rules I posted here. This one went straight into profit and cap'd it for around 50 pips during the next hour. Stay tuned though, as potential good stuff is on the way
As you can see, a few hours before the trade I took there was another opportunity. I wasn't around at the time to take it, but this how I'd have gone about it.
When CSS(JPY) - CSS(GBP) > 0.07, the background went from yellow to red and I'd get in as quickly as possible with a SELL. Then the CSS went again into yellow as CSS(JPY) - CSS(GBP) went again under 0.07. At this point I'd become wary and alert but wouldn't yet close the trade out since we just entered into a relatively young trade an hour or 2 ago and we don't want to exit prematurely. To cut the SELL trade I'd wait and look for either:
- Conservative approach: Both CSS lines crossing again (i.e. CSS(GPB) - CSS(JPY) > 0)
- A bit more daring approach: Observe a green background (i.e. CSS(GBP) - CSS(JPY) > 0.07)
My observations so far tell me that adopting the "aggressive" approach over the conservative approach is much more desirable during the early stages of a trade's life - as this will prevent you from bailing out on retracements. The longer the trade lives the more conservative one should get.
Aram