Trading EURUSD | Judas Swing Strategy 08/10/2024

Traders become enthusiastic with the start of a new week, as it presents an opportunity to capitalize on the market's offerings, and we were hopeful of entering into profitable trades this week. We arrived at our desks at 08:25 EST, energized and prepared to trade. With five minutes remaining before our trading session begins, we prepared by delineating our trading zones.


After defining our zones, we wait for price to sweep the high or low of the trading zone, as this will help us establish a bias for the trading session. After five minutes, a sweep of the trading zone's low occurred, indicating that we should look for buying opportunities during this trading session.


Shortly after the low sweep, we observed a Break of Structure (BOS) to the buy side, leaving behind a Fair Value Gap (FVG). This means that all that remains before we can initiate a trade is to wait for the price to retrace back into the FVG.


Once the next candle enters the Fair Value Gap (FVG), we can initiate the trade after the candle closes. We should verify that the entry price and low of the price leg that broke structure is at least 10 pips. If it's not, we'll set our stop loss at 10 pips and place our Take Profit (TP) at twice that amount.


To minimize emotional attachment to trades, we risk only 1% of our trading account and target a return of twice that amount if the trade moves in our favor. After a short while, we reviewed our position and discovered we were in a drawdown, which was acceptable to us since we had only risked what we were prepared to lose.


Subsequently, we received an alert indicating that our position had reached our stop loss. It's crucial to understand that incurring losses is a normal part of trading, particularly when you have data supporting your strategy's long-term profitability. The best course of action is to learn from these losses to improve your trading skills.