The slowest week of the year so far! Two days with no trades, and pretty low movement all week. But the strategies still managed to pull out a decent profit. Compared to most of the weeks we have had this year, this is lower. But market conditions do change, and we still need to be able to trade and navigate those environments, even if profits are a bit smaller. We stay focused and patient and take the opportunities that are provided, because we know there will be bigger days and weeks ahead.
The EURUSD day trading strategies produced a potential profit of +5.74R this past week (“R” is described below). The strategies used, and their statistics for the week, are outlined below.
The strategies have rules, but trades are discretionary or subject to interpretation. The goal is to reach the profit potential (or possibly exceed it), but actual results will typically be lower especially when learning.
The profit potential is based on trading a 2-hour window between approximately 8 and 10 AM EST. Some days I only trade for 1.5 hours.
I trade on a 1-minute chart and use the strategies discussed in this review. The week’s charts with the trades are below.
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Totals for this week:
- Potential Profit was +5.74 for the week. This is if all the valid trades were taken, and no invalid trades were taken.
- “R” is a standardized risk amount. It could be 1% of the account, 0.5% of the account, or any amount you choose based on your position sizing method.
- In other words, if risking 1% of the account per trade, the potential profit from these strategies this week was 5.74% (less commissions), trading about 1.5 to 2 hours per day.
- Most days this week only produced one or two nice trading opportunities. There was two day with no opportunities.
- “R” is a standardized risk amount. It could be 1% of the account, 0.5% of the account, or any amount you choose based on your position sizing method.
- 4 wins / 7 trades = 57% win rate if the strategy rules were followed. Lower than normal, but not very many trades.
- Reward to Risk (based on all potential trades):
- Winners: 2.5, 1.14, 1, 2.5 = 7.14 / 4 = 1.785
- Losers: = 0, 1.1, 0.3 = 1.4 / 3 = 0.47
- 1.785 / 0.47 = 3.79:1 Higher than usual, but only because of a flat trade. Had some partial profits as well.
- Typical leverage is about 30:1. Ranging from 20:1 to 50:1, depending on the stop loss distance in pips.
- I recorded my day trading session on Feb. 11 and Feb. 17 if you want to watch me trade and talk through the process.
A lot of these stats you can track in the free and downloadable forex day trading log (Excel spreadsheet).
EURUSD Day Trading Strategy Totals
These are optimal results for the strategies, including trades I missed and excluding trades I shouldn’t have been in. This is so I can ascertain over time which strategies are working the best and producing the most profit potential.
- Rounded Tops and Bottoms strategy profit: +2.14R
(Daily totals: 0, 0, 2.14, 0, 0) - Snap Back strategy profit: 0R
(0, 0, 0, 0, 0) - Double Pump strategy profit: +2.5R
(0, 2.5, 0, 0, 0) - Double Pump Variation strategy profit: +1.1R
(0, 0, -1.4, 0, 2.5) - Squeeze Play (SP): 0R
(0) - Triple Pump: 0R
(0) - Broken Break: 0
(0, 0, 0, 0, 0)
Daily Charts and Trades
Charting provided by TradingView.
My Focus For the Next Week
As traders we are generally pretty tough on ourselves. Always telling ourselves we need to “get better at this” or “get better at that” or “fix this.” That may have its place, but so does congratulating ourselves on the things we did well (even when we aren’t trading well).
So this week, my focus is to lift myself up. To focus on all the positives in my trading. To enjoy the process, and take many moments to appreciate that this is what I get to do for a living.
Give yourself a break as well. Correcting mistakes is important, but we can also improve our trading by focusing on what we are good at and incorporating more of that into our lives and trading!
Here are the prior totals (monthly). Actual charts are in the weekly articles listed within the monthly-total articles:
- January: +63R potential
- February: +78R potential
- March: +76R potential
- April: +76R potential
- May: +94R potential
- June: +91R potential
- July: +67R potential
Want to learn how to trade like this? Check out the EURUSD Day Trading Course. It covers strategies for crushing the EURUSD in two hours or less, as well as mental game work and exercise to get in the profit-making zone and stay there.
By Cory Mitchell, CMT
Disclaimer: Nothing in this article is personal investment advice, or advice to buy or sell anything. Trading is risky and can result in substantial losses, even more than deposited if using leverage.
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