by Pharley » Thu May 19, 2011 9:18 am
Hi Ramirez,
Looking at your GBPNZD one - yes.
If you go down from the 1hr to the 15m you can see an earlier entry. Even better is the 5m chart. On the 5m, you could have chased the candles all the way down wiht you buy order sitting just above them. Have a look at the 5m and you can see the candles racing down there, then bouncing off the support. Probably could have got in at around 2.03850 and place SL at 2.03500 giving a 35 pips SL.
Still, it's bounced away nicely - I'd have the SL moved up to just under the swing low point at 2.0728 by now just to be sure of bagging some.
One of the things myronn has always said is start at the large timeframes, but you can move down and down to a 5m chart to look for accurate entries. Sometimes they're not there, but most of the time you'll see a better entry point on 5m or 15m charts. That's probably a good idea too when you're trading a very volatile pair like GBPNZD.
Practice doing that on a demo account to get comfy with it as well - if you see a set up on the 4hr or 1 hr, get on the demo and chase the price on the 15m or 5m charts until the trade triggers coming away from a support or resistance line.
Hope that helps.
Cheers
Phil