Thanks Johnathon - I am still waiting for that light switch to flick on . ( LOL ) Can you confirm if I have understood what you have been saying:
There is a good signal to short on the GA which is identified at the break of the Pin Bar Low. It seems from your comments that you will not set an order to enter this trade straight away until you have seen what PA is doing. If price accelerates away from the entry point - trade is missed but no problem. If price retraces back up on that particular PB, this gives a good opportunity to set a pending order to go short at the break of the PB low if that was to happen but you do not try & enter short during that retracement. In other words - the break of the PB low remains the entry trigger.
Thanks for all of your sharing.
no not what I do. When I see a signal I like, once it has finished I set the order to enter when the next candle opens. If I had a signal I liked today to enter that has just finished forming on the daily chart I would set orders to enter at the break now. There is nothing to wait for.
The only time I don’t do that is if I am trading a daily signal that was made on the last day of the week (Friday). Obviously we have to set orders to enter on Monday to enter a Friday candle. The only problem with this is the first 1-2 hours of monday brings crazy spreads and if you set orders during this time you will quite often be entered even though price has not broken the candle to validate the signal. So what I do is wait for this period to pass and then set orders to open. Make sense?
Hi guys just noticed a beautiful looking pin bar seems to be forming on H4 Eurusd to go long… I normally hate this pair especially going long but I think I might even put in an order and if all goes to plan
Thanks for sharing. Unfortunately, this H4 pinbar is not for me
-> small, & formed during Asian session (low volatility)
-> big UK boys were on holiday yesterday, would rather wait till they wake up…
I’m actually waiting for long opps, but on the 1.2400 BRN once price (hopefully) completes its rotation back to previous resistance. Best of luck though if you do choose to take it!
Good eye Belinda! I also saw that setting up prior to UK open & took it long @ 1.2486 I have since taken off 1/2 my position banking 45 Pips & have moved my SL a bit above B/E.
I also took the same trade on USD/CHF opposite correlation.
My orders didn’t get triggered on GBP/AUD, because I placed them 2-3h later at the break of the friday’s candle to avoid the huge spreads and chaos that may be caused in the first hours on monday’s morning.
Very nice job. I’m still looking for those A+ setups. Both of these trades (while having a small PB) worked as they were in line with the overall trend. My GBP/AUD was entered too early (Sunday late) and wasn’t in line with the current trend. My other EUR/CAD was inline with the current trend and might still go if I’m lucky. Luckily this is all on demo. I’m doing some stupid things there to figure out my mistakes. Easier to learn from mistakes (like entering on Sunday night) than from too many successes early on. I’m seeing the charts well thanks to Johnathon and this thread.
Hi to everyone. Have attached my trade on the USCAD. There was an IB that provided an entry below the 0.9900 RN. Overall trend was down so was confident that this would resume. Price touched my TP exactly but did not close me out. I exited manually for a lesser profit,.
Hi Richard,
How many pips away from valid pa bars do you place your entry orders … in this case how many pips below last fridays pin…if its ok to ask …
Thanks
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