Another quick day - Closed

 Well, another quick day of trading's but with a different result from yesterday.

Woke up early, and had a look at the markets. They had bottomed at 115'080, which was a Fib level from yesterday's move. I put in a buy at that level, but price continued higher. When it hit '120, I put in a 4-tick reversal from that location. At0603hrs, Bot 1 x ZN at 115'100. Stop of 10 ticks, tgt of 50 ticks.


After I bought, price hovered and then dropped. Stopped out at 0702hrs at 115'050.


Good trade, but could have waited longer to enter. Night is different due to lower volume, so move movement. If I had waited for '080, would have still been stopped out.

Better trade would have been to wait for a touch of the Hourly Std line at '035.

On to the next trade.

Opening Range breakout trade looked OK, so at 0825hrs, bot 1 x ZN at 115'080. T1 at '130, T2 at '180, stop '030. As the range isn't great, looking for T2.


At 0907hrs, Sld 1 x ZN @ 115'030. Stopped out. Maybe wasn't best trade as the R/R wasn't good. 


And as that is 2 losses for the day, will stop now and have a look in the evening. 


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