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PaulF
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Nothing on Monday.

Tuesday 17th January. Trade 1, +0.1:

(An admission: note that the first red dot appeared when the trade was at about +0.5. I moved the stop loss to break even at this point and let it run to see if things picked up. )
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Hi Bobby,

Nice trading...

reading through your trades (and everyone elses) i think i may need to take more notice...

i took that trade for a small rent, from the low of that move there were 6 up candles so i trailed candles and got tagged...

keep it up...

Grant
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Grant - thanks for your encouragement!

Trade 2: +16.4. Well this was pure stupidity and good luck as I didn't notice red news due at 10am. When it spiked up I settled for what I had rather than use the normal management rules.
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You can make your own luck Bobby,

again i got tagged by the candle trail for a small rent (tw&tting thing)...

cheers

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Third trade: -0.1. I wasn't keen on trading into the BRN and in hindsight should have taken whatever was available when it appeared to start reversing.
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Trade 4: + 1.3. Well this feels like the story of the bloody day, breakout and them retracement. It made me think about something though so I've got a question to ask later on....
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Trade 5, -6.4. Horrible.
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Hi Bobby

I saw this setup but saw 5 min as near the end of potential wave 4 and 1 min as having divergence on AO so declined.

Hope this helps,

Mike
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msk185 wrote:Hi Bobby

I saw this setup but saw 5 min as near the end of potential wave 4 and 1 min as having divergence on AO so declined.

Hope this helps,

Mike

Hi Mike!

Great logic for filtering that trade. I would have and have done the same! cheers
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Hi guys

I don't believe a word of this Elliott Wave nonsense (sorry!), but the divergence makes sense.

Here's something that occurred to me today. When I place a trade I check the M5 AIMS level and use that as the basis for the order if it's not at least 4 pips away from the M1 AIMS level.

But what I do (actually, what the script I've written does....) is just to look at the drawn dark grey area on the M5 chart. I don't check that this is a "confirmed" AIMS level in the sense of making sure that there are two closed candles to the right of the high candle with lower highs. [All this is for a long trade.]

Have I been a little negligent here? Should I be checking the distance to the last properly confirmed M5 AIMS level ?

BobbyF
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