EURUSD Trade 01 May 2019
This is a EURUSD trade which I completed this week. I would like to share my thought process to decide why and where I entered and exit the trade.
Daily chart showed EURUSD broke below its swing low on 24/4 to create a supply zone at 1.1240-1.1262 above the breakdown level. This showed that bears were in control, which turned my trade bias for EURUSD to bearish. I placed a sell limit order at 1.1245 (within the supply zone) with an initial stop at 1.1275 (above the supply zone) and take profit(TP) at 1.1140 (within the demand zone at 1.1110-1.1143). My sell order was filled at 1.1245 on 1/5.
Daily chart showed EURUSD broke below its swing low on 24/4 to create a supply zone at 1.1240-1.1262 above the breakdown level. This showed that bears were in control, which turned my trade bias for EURUSD to bearish. I placed a sell limit order at 1.1245 (within the supply zone) with an initial stop at 1.1275 (above the supply zone) and take profit(TP) at 1.1140 (within the demand zone at 1.1110-1.1143). My sell order was filled at 1.1245 on 1/5.
EURUSD Daily Chart |
EURUSD 4-Hour Chart (Exit 1) |
I manually exit slightly more than half of my position on 3/5 at 1.11745 for a +70.5 pips profit after EURUSD has declined to more than twice my initial risk of -30 pips. I then moved my stop for my remaining position to breakeven(BE) + 1 at 1.1244. Taking partial profit at >2R (twice the initial risk) and moving stop to BE+1 are as per my trade management plan.
EURUSD 4-Hour Chart (Exit 2) |
I followed my trade management plan to trail my stop on the 4-hour chart since EURUSD was getting very near to my TP. Moving the TP was an option written in my trade management plan. On hindsight, had I not moved my TP I would have realised a +105 pips profit instead of +70 pips. However, on the other side of the coin had EURUSD moved lower further and hit my revised TP, I would have made +145 pips.
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