After going short, the price immediately moved higher. In this case about 45 points.
If you do not have a stop loss in place, with a full lot size that might be negative -$450
The price then continued lower, but we were down 45 points and took 7 points profit. In general, we want to do better than that.
We did take advantage with the 2nd trade. At that point the channel would have been drawn. For the first trade, we can’t say there was a channel like formation in place yet.