This Long trade was exited early for 5 pips, a few pips less than the take profit level. It went beyond that easily as seen in the second chart (15 min).

The beastly pullback rattled me and I was happy with getting out

 

Bought – 162.65

Initial Take Profit (limit sell) – 162.73

Sold (market sell) – 162.70

and it’s gotten as high as – 163.40

 

 

 

The image on the right shows something I’ve been working towards. Having the Dow and 1 Pair to trade for “bread and butter” The number of trades (6) for the NY session, is on the high side. I’m looking for 1-4 trades depending on size, projected gain, etc..

 

 

I was floating a loss on the DOW for much of the session, but managed to pull some profit out.

The AUD/USD and USD/CAD trades set me back, so the DOW brought me to about breakeven.

As far as overnights, I’ve seen a few times that my stop gets taken out and then a nice anticipated move happens. Actually, it can be much more than the anticipated move since we aren’t targeting relatively many pips. The USD/CAD trade is an example of this. I’ve highlighted the area where I entered and was stopped out.

 

 

 

USD/CAD

 

Need to work on stop placement, and try to scale out to get some of these big moves depending what the analysis reveals.  This went 80 pips and I was going for 20.

 

Similar experience on the AUD/USD,  though I din’t like the set up as much