28 May Premarket Prep USDCAD 05282020
This is my premarket prep for today’s European session for the Forex pair USDCAD. This prep builds off of my weekly trade plan I made here:
The purpose of a premarket prep is to find setups within my weekly trade plan bias.
Non-conjecture observations of the market
- After a big drop from rejecting W1 QHi we took out Daily demand but yesterday we stayed around this level
- Bounce off of previous H4 Demand (1.37297) with Bull Engulf but no follow through and created another conterminous supply at 1.37783
- Price below KC and VWAP
- Price tested new H4 conterminous supply 1.37783 during Asia session after creating some demand with new H4 conterminous demand 1.37525
- Market Profile
- London opened within value
Compared against Weekly Trading Plan
- W1 Phase 3 demand broken and testing Weekly VWAP
- First time ducking below Monthly conterminous supply 1.38162
Sentiment — Bearish
ZOIs for Possible Shorts
- New H4 conterminous supply 1.37783
ZOIs for Possible Long
- New H4 conterminous demand 1.37525
- H4 conterminous demand 1.37297
Focus Points for trading development
- Exit rules
- Option 1: Time-based stop
- Option 2: Target hit (SL 20 pips + spread or x2 TP)
- NO OPTION 3
- UNLESS a trade is entered within 1 hour or half hour before the hard exit rule option 1
- Entry rules
- Entry on TPO break of IB
- Early entry with price action confirmation at
- H4 conterminous
- Open far from value, anticipating a move back to value using an engulfing + subsequent break of TPO
- Min. X2 R/R
- Use TPO confirmation or invalidation for directional decisions by looking for in conjunction with H4 conterminous lines
- TPO extension with a sustained move (BO from IB)
- TPO extension with failed auction (return to IB)
- How this direction of TPO extension relates to Value Area open sentiment
- I will post trades including:
- Trade location
- Price action entry condition
- What were TPOs doing at the time
- With screenshot
- Keep own approach of KC, VWAP as odd enhancers instead of hard trade locations
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