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Trade Number: B2-T10 (#431)

2. Date/Time: 23/10/20 at 2.31

3. Symbol/TF: euraud/M1

4. Signal Type / Direction : S1/sell

5. Comments and Feelings at the Time of Taking The Trade:

H1: Trending down, H1 box break. Strong red candle down.

M5: M5 pulling back to the green line.

M1: M1 stepping up back to the purple line after a strong surge down. Box 58. Gator, dot, ao and purple line all correct.

6.Comments and Thoughts After Exiting the Trade: Would I take this again?

Maybe no, not sure. It was really early in the trading day, but I thought because it was the euraud (i.e., had aud in it) that it would be okay. So, even though it was 02.31 using Pepperstone’s time, it was 9.31am in Australia. Not sure if that is a valid way of thinking...

I kept watching this for a while, and it got there in the end!  So, even thought I got stopped out, it was kind of reassuring to see the chart pattern play out.

7. DS For this Trade: DS1 for the S1

8. DS Running Total: 8/10
 
 

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Trade Number: B2-T11 (#264) 

2. Date/Time: 23/10/20 at 11.41

3. Symbol/TF:  usdcad/M1

4. Signal Type / Direction : S1/sell

5. Comments and Feelings at the Time of Taking The Trade: 

 H1:  Box break on H1.  Not hugely strong though.  Less than half the candle was out of the box.

 M5:  Two green candle pull back to M5 green line.  M5 ao surging down.

 M1:  Gator, dot, pl, ao all correct.  Box 61.

 6.Comments and Thoughts After Exiting the Trade:  Would I take this again? 

 Yes.  I think this was good s1. 

7. DS For this Trade: DS1

8. DS Running Total:  9/11
 
 

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Trade Number: B2-T12 (#553)

2. Date/Time: 26/10/20 at 13.05

3. Symbol/TF:  eurjpy/M1

4. Signal Type / Direction : S1/sell

5. Comments and Feelings at the Time of Taking The Trade: 

H1:  Break down from H1 box.

M5:  Five red candles down on M5, with a two green candle pull back to the green line on M5.

M1:  I think this is a S1, dot, gator, pl, ao all good.  Box 34.

But...perhaps back at the start of the H1 breakout (where the yellow lines intersect) is where the better S1 on M1 is.  But I would not have taken this first S1 as price was still in the H1 box.

6.Comments and Thoughts After Exiting the Trade:  Would I take this again?  I don’t know.  

7. DS For this Trade: DS1 for the S1

8. DS Running Total:  10/12
 
 

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Trade Number: B2-T12 (#517)

2. Date/Time: 27/10/20 at 13.30

3. Symbol/TF:  chfjpy/M1

4. Signal Type / Direction : S1/sell

5. Comments and Feelings at the Time of Taking The Trade: 

H1:  Break down from H1 box.  Open gator down on H1.

 M5:  Ao surging down.  Red candles, initially most with longer tails, but closer to entry point tails were shorter.

 M1:  Dot, gator, pl, and ao cross all there.  Box 65.  Spread 1.8 at entry.  I kept moving my entry order as the aims boxes reduced in size and the order was triggered.

 6.Comments and Thoughts After Exiting the Trade:  Would I take this again?  Yes, I would take this again (happy to be corrected if I shouldn't!).  I think it was a valid S1. 

7. DS For this Trade: DS1

8. DS Running Total:  11/13
 
 

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Trade Number: B2-T14 (#501)

2. Date/Time: 28/10/20 at 00.58

3. Symbol/TF:  eurjpy/M1

4. Signal Type / Direction : S1/sell

5. Comments and Feelings at the Time of Taking The Trade: 

 H1:  Break from H1 box.  H1 gator wide open down.

 M5:  Break down on M5, and pull back to the green line.

 M1:  Box 36.  All S1 criteria were there, dot, gator, pl, ao....but the entry was at 00.58 (too early time wise) and the spread at the time I opened the order was 3.8, at the time of closing the order it was 1.6, but at entry it was too high (viz., over 2).  So while I think this was a DS1 for the S1, it wasn’t really an appropriate trade.  I entered because I was annoyed at myself for having a few rent trades in a row and just wanted to place a trade and hopefully have a win and feel like I was getting somewhere...basically the opposite of what I’m trying to achieve discipline wise through the process of doing the T20 batches. 

While atm placed the stop above the box, the entry was triggered really close to the box, I’m not sure why (I am sure however, that it must have been something I did.  ATM is awesome.)

6.Comments and Thoughts After Exiting the Trade:  Would I take this again?  No, took it for all the wrong reasons, too early in the day, and the spread was too large. 

7. DS For this Trade: DS1 for the S1 only

8. DS Running Total:  12/14
 
 
 

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Trade Number: B2-T15 (#640)

2. Date/Time: 28/10/20 at 11.06

3. Symbol/TF:  cadjpy/M1

4. Signal Type / Direction : S1/sell

5. Comments and Feelings at the Time of Taking The Trade: 

 H1:  Break from H1 box.  H1 gator wide open down.

 M5:  Break down on M5, and pull back to the green line (was worried this went a bit sideways for too long).

 M1:  All S1 criteria were there, dot, gator, pl, ao...

 I think my first entry must have been closed by atm.  I placed it and then after it started moving down a bit I checked the open orders and it wasn’t there, so I then chased the entry and placed a second order.  When the price started getting back towards the entry level I thought I knew better than the process and manually closed out the order.  Very little discipline there...what a lesson...shoulda stayed with it!

 6.Comments and Thoughts After Exiting the Trade:  Would I take this again?  Yes. 

7. DS For this Trade: DS1 for the S1.  The entry and exit were definitely not DS1.

8. DS Running Total:  13/15
 

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Trade Number: B2-T16 (#878)

2. Date/Time: 28/10/20 at 12.11

3. Symbol/TF:  usdcad/M1

4. Signal Type / Direction : S1/buy

5. Comments and Feelings at the Time of Taking The Trade: 

H1:  Break from H1 box.  H1 gator wide open up.  I was worried about the H1 level to the left.

M5:  Break down up on M5, with most of the candles solid (I hadn’t really considered this too much until Immy mentioned it in a video and I’ve been looking for them to have shorter tails now).  Pull back to the green line.

M1:  All S1 criteria were there, dot, gator, pl, ao... I think this was the cleanest S1 for today that I’ve taken (whew, at least one!).

6.Comments and Thoughts After Exiting the Trade:  Would I take this again?  Yes. 

7. DS For this Trade: DS1

8. DS Running Total:  14/16
 

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Trade Number: B2-T17 (#905)

2. Date/Time: 28/10/20 at 12.09

3. Symbol/TF:  gbpusd/M1

4. Signal Type / Direction : S1/sell

5. Comments and Feelings at the Time of Taking The Trade: 

H1:  Break down from H1 box.  H1 gator open down.

M5:  M5 gator open down.  Pull back to the green line.  More red candles down than green.  Most of the red candles have smaller tails.

M1:  Dot, gator, pl, ao all correct.I really thought this one was going to stop out and was tempted to move the stop to breakeven when it started going sideways.  But after trade # 15 this batch, where I manually moved the stop, and would have been better leaving it, I learnt my lesson and left it.

6.Comments and Thoughts After Exiting the Trade:  Would I take this again?  Yes, ahh, maybe...the box was pretty big, but I have seen a number of trades with bigger boxes that have been great.  So, yes, I would take this again. 

7. DS For this Trade: DS1

8. DS Running Total:  15/17
 
 
 
 
 
 

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Trade Number: B2-T18 (#980)

2. Date/Time: 29/10/20 at 12.24

3. Symbol/TF:  eurjpy/M1

4. Signal Type / Direction : S1/sell

5. Comments and Feelings at the Time of Taking The Trade: 

H1:  S1 on H1.  Break down from AIMS box.  Gator was just starting to open down.  I was worried about the H1 levels to the left.

M5:  Ao surging down.  M5 gator open down.  I was a bit worried about the tails that started appearing on the m5 candles prior to entry.

M1:  Dot, gator, ao, pl all correct.  Box 40.

I was worried about the H1 levels to the left, which were not too far below the entry point, and I was also worried that the M1 price had been moving sideways for a bit.  So I cancelled the entry below the aims box and moved my entry down a bit below the box figuring that if it moved that bit more then it might have a bit more movement behind it pushing it down.  I was thrilled when it got to break even so quickly (I love it when they move quickly!).

6.Comments and Thoughts After Exiting the Trade:  Would I take this again?  Not sure if I would have taken this on a real account because of the way on M1 it moved sideways for a bit...

7. DS For this Trade: DS1

8. DS Running Total:  16/18