USD/CAD - “Trading in the zone”
As you can see from the array of photos I've given, I opened the charts this morning and assumed it was just a buy, given the impulse yesterday and the set up that was presented: a breaker structure and a sponsored candle. After all the mitigations had already happened, I jumped on that after it then broke that sponsored candle. I looked at a higher timeframe and thought, "There's another sponsor candle with the two breaks. I'll take that candle after it failed." I knew that my ranges were wrong—which sometimes I do get wrong, everyone does—and so when it broke that sponsored candle, it leaves an opposite candle left behind. That is then the range's sponsored candle, meaning the candle that broke structure. So, after it breaks your original order you quickly put in the opposite order and you put your stop loss above or below that candle. That is then your entry for that higher timeframe. I'll do more of these examples as time goes by, because that's the point of this community. The sponsored candle that market came off yesterday for this higher timeframe, was such a small candle I couldn’t even see it on MT5, to go through this process to get the best possible entry is a great nifty way of getting through. So you somewhat have to play the game to get it done. It’s a little bit cowboy, quickly selling or buying after a set up fails, but if you know your set ups, you know what side of the market you will be on—and hopefully the correct one, if you’ve got it right. Remember: the last opposite up or down candle that broke structure is a sponsored candle. Third loss of this set up! Then looked at the Higher timeframe correctly and the 15 minute and realised there was an A1 set up off the 71 fibonacci ratio and so I re-entered here I would’ve thought that’s me out of the zone and I look forward to taking profit.