Just a recap, since I didn’t post on Friday.

I did attempt to trade the NFP, and took two stops (EURUSD and GBPUSD) to go down <18> to start the session.  I then stayed in, trying to recoup the losses, and, bit by bit, accumulated several more losses. I had a small win (6.5 pips) with a second GBPUSD trade, and then ended the session with a 1:1 win on CADJPY for +11.9 after holding it for what seemed like forever.  In the end, I finished down <58.9> (-1.95%), and down <44.0> for the week and the month.

This morning, the EUR and GBP pairs were in strong down trends as I came to the charts early, but I held off.  I did take the EURJPY and EURUSD on strong pullbacks, but they both went on to full stops.  So, once again this morning, I’m own <18.1> as we come up to the NYC bell.

Ended up taking a YL (pullback) entry on the AUDUSD just after the NYC open.  I’d been holding off because it’s been in a fairly narrow range (40 pips overnight), and had pulled back pretty strongly.  I definitely wanted to wait for the open, but we have that now, so I put the pending out, and it got hit.  We’ll see what happens.

I punched out of the AUDUSD for +5.7 after it hit +7 and then pulled back.  I’m trying out a strategy where, in markets that don’t seem to be moving, i want to avoid having a gain turn into a loss.  It was looking to me like the AUDUSD could be starting a pullback into losing territory. If it continues its downward move, I’ll try to get back in later. Meanwhile, I’ve cut my loss to <13.4>.

And looking for more entries.

I just took a manual entry on the USDCAD as it was below the previous candle, but that may have been a mistake, as it plunged immediately after.  It got within a point of my stop loss, but now it’s pulling back higher. We will see what we will see.

And I just did the same thing on the GBPUSD, and it immediately surged.

And both of them have stopped out for <10.0> each.  Now down <33.4>. Not the direction I wanted to see.

Some sweeping changes have taken place across the board, perhaps prompted by news of Nikki Haley’s resignation as UN ambassador, although they seem more far reaching than that.  The GBPJPY triggered a range break out pending long after a 65 pip candle upward.  But it stopped out for <12.1> in fairly quick order.  Have placed a re-entry order at ’50.  Now down <45.5>.

Meanwhile, everything is now in range,with most pairs going rail-to-rail.

Kim tweets “I could sure use a damn winning trade soon… down -62”.  Yeah, me, too. Except for that one that I bailed on against the rules, everything has been a loss.

A pending order for a range break on the GBPUSD just got taken in by a spike, and then stopped out about 40 seconds later for <12.5>.  So now down <58.0>.

Just took a second RBO entry on GBPUSD. This one seems to be moving more civilly, but we’ll see.  That doesn’t mean it will continue.

And GBPJPY followed suit a few minutes later. I just punched out of both of them because they were waffling around and looked, at least very short term, like the run was over.  GBPUSD was +15.2, and GBPJPY was +5.2.  So I’m now down <37.6>. Chipping away.

Both of those trades moved higher after I closed them. I have set re-entry pendings at the next level up.  The GBPUSD order hit, but then immediately pulled back and stop<46.7> (-2.0%) on 10 trades (3 wins, 7 losses).