Premarket Prep GBPNZD 12212020

21 Dec Premarket Prep GBPNZD 12212020

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This is my pre­mar­ket prep for today’s Euro­pean ses­sion for the Forex pair GBPNZD. This prep builds off of my week­ly trade plan I made here:

GBPNZD Week 52 Trad­ing Plan

The pur­pose of a pre­mar­ket prep is to find setups with­in my week­ly trade plan bias

Week­ly Focus Points

• Don’t take trades where SL place­ment is sub­op­ti­mal. Instead, reassess for a bet­ter entry if pos­si­ble. Unless there is a momen­tum play.

Com­pared against Week­ly Trad­ing Plan

• Last week closed as an Inside Bar with Longer sell­ing wick

Non-con­jec­ture obser­va­tions of the market

• Price action
  • D1 Gap down trad­ing above D1 QLo
  • H4 clean arrival at H4-C‑D 1.87979 with reaction
  • H4 closed as an Inside Bar with longer buy­ing wick premarket
• Mar­ket Profile
  • 2 day brack­et­ing range
  • ADR: 1608
  • ASR: 1256
    • 32
  • Day
    • Yes­ter­day’s High 1.90019
    • Yes­ter­day’s Low 1.88515

Sen­ti­ment

• Loca­tions
  • H4-C‑S 1.89660 at VAL, ADR exhaus­tion & ADR 0.5 high near­by below VAL
  • H4-C‑D 1.87979 at ADR 0.5 low
• Sen­ti­ment
  • LN open
    • Below Val­ue, Out­side Range
  • Open dis­tance to value
    • 1.0xASR
  • Sen­ti­ment
    • Large Imbal­ance with near­by H4 c‑dem. Price gapped down and with a clean arrival at H4 C‑dem we see an ini­tial reaction. 
• Clar­i­ty (1–5, 5 being best)
  • 4
• Hypo 1 — Mean Reversion
  • Pre­ferred: IB exten­sion up (momen­tum), sus­tained auction. 
• Hypo 2 — Return to Value
  • H4 C‑sup at VAL
  • Pre­ferred: Price action rever­sal, failed auc­tion with quick follow-through
• Hypo 3 — Trend Continuation
  • Pre­ferred: IB exten­sion down (momen­tum), sus­tained auction

Addi­tion­al notes

• Brex­it talks are still on

ZOIs for Pos­si­ble Shorts

• D1-C‑S 1.89847 (near round number)
• H4-C‑S 1.90471 (near round number)
• H4-C‑S 1.89660

ZOIs for Pos­si­ble Long

• H4-C‑D 1.87979

Mind­ful Trading

• Feel­ing okay

Focus Points for trad­ing development

• Month­ly Goals
  • Con­tin­ue track­ing my DRC track­ing sheet
  • Focus on my own progress and less on others
  • Feel­ing okay with NOT trading
  • Have ‘qui­eter’ weekends
• Week­ly Goal
  • Min. 3 times hit­ting the gym
• Trad­ing Rules
  • Trade from D and upwards unless a pos­si­ble momen­tum trade, val­ue accep­tance or otherwise. 
• Risk Man­age­ment
  • 3 trades 1% risk, 3rd trade only if first 2 worked out
  • Cap­i­tal Preser­va­tion dur­ing draw­down allows for 1R profit-taking
  • 2 con­sec­u­tive days of lack of sleep = NO TRADING

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