Emotion of thrill

Emotion of thrill overwhelmed me as soon as I made my two quick wins. After it I wasn't able to trade any more, even thou I made quick trip in other pair but run away immediately when it wasn't working and that was good choice. Positive emotions are just like negative, emotions. They change things. It's easy to leave charts in such state, good thing is that it don't make me want to trade more. If I for some reason chose to trade again I don't want to lose my precious just made profit and that is not even remotely good state to be when you are trading.

Second gbp/usd trade against the trend was made because gbp/jpy held yesterday's support and low at that moment. From that followed reversal.

More I look at my trading I can see that I'm searching for this kind of setups. Break to the new low/high quick action on 10sec chart, scalp and out. When price is moving fast on 10sec in this type of situation I can sense what is going on. At least I believe so and I'm able to trade based on that belief.

+25 pips



Killing me softly market

Really slow movements on new low for a day. Very hard to scalp when you want to leave trade open for high possibility of bigger profit.

+8 pips



Monday afternoon

Trading with half size to keep emotions down. Little bottom picking. I should have closed first trade as a scalp and not wait for bigger move.

+4 full size pips

Monday

Played defensive. Missed gbp/usd move.

+8 pips


Swing trading

First trades in gbp/usd were after favorable news for gbp with half size. Add on was too early. I "sold myself a story" that I will buy it at lower price so I was able to exit the trade with small loss of -5 full size pips, untypical for me.

Next was long in eur/usd after some retrace, and soon additional trade in gbp/usd also expecting price going back to it's highs. It was long wait, with problems in gbp/usd not holding like eur/usd.
Eur/usd started rallying moving 20 pips in 3 minutes. Much of the move was on eur/gbp strength so gbp/usd didn't follow as quickly. It could have been exceptional break out if it did, maybe it will be later.

+44 pips