I was a little bit disappointed with how the 4-to-7 GBPUSD system worked today... my short was around 14727 and it didn't really go anywhere.. it just went and hit my stop exactly before it reversed and it would have made 30 pips. The long trade did activate and get my 30 pips but I still ended up 20 pips down.
The last 3 days were not good for the system and I suffered a 20 pip loss each day. As I traded Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, the total loss for the week was 60 pips! I didn't trade Monday as it was the Bank Holiday yet it would have yielded profits had I done. It's times like this when you consider whether your trading system is going to work for you... the back testing has shown that 3 days in a row of losses is rare but when it happens, your confidence in the system diminishes and the d
I don't tend to trade Bank Holidays as volumes are low and traders are generally off taking long weekends. These are times when the markets can do funny things. I didn't trade today but in hindsight, our system would have worked and bagged our 30 pips. For reference, here is the chart, the upper line is at 14493 and the lower at 14444. The market hits a high of 14550 which is almost 100 pips.
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