Trapped Traders

Trading Mindset

Hello Traders! After many weeks of daily active trading on my part, i've hit a bit of a quiet period in which i'm still getting good trades off, however they aren't the 2-3 per day i was getting on occasion. This is in part due to the recent spike in vol we have seen on the back of market jitters based on rising global yields. Market conditions just haven't suited my way of trading. So during this period i was reflecting on what the best thing(s) to do are when you hit these inevitable periods where you cant seem to [...]

By Gary|March 10th, 2021|

Cable Does the Business again! GBPUSD Successful Long Trade

Hello Traders!A great Long trade in GBPUSD to report this week which netted 90 pips! As usual this was shared in the SentiFX chat room under trade ideas - current members check it out, else if you're not a member, you know what to do.Check out the lifetime membership option.Ok, onto the trade analysis and outcome. On the 17th (per below screenshot) I shared with the SentiFX Slack Chat group a chart giving my long entry conditions for Cable. The trade was based on a horizontal (Liquidity Gap - LG) Zone and trendline/wedge pattern forming on the 1hr chart. Add [...]

By Gary|February 19th, 2021|

AUDUSD, NZDUSD & EURGBP trade setups taken this week using Sentiment 13/02/21

Another pips positive week behind us for those with access to the SentiFX sentiment indicators.... Here are some more examples of successful trades in the past week, taking the other side of retail positions. As always they were communicated to the Sentifx slack chat community forum under 'Trade Ideas'.Lets start with AUDUSD - per my recent blog on the 7th Feb, I was bullish the pair and had advised buying dips into unfilled Liquidity gaps for an expected upmove, firstly into the upper channel zone of the potential bull flag pattern that had been identified and then trade any breakout in [...]

By Gary|February 14th, 2021|

USDCHF Signaled at the Wrong Time? Nope!

A Member asked a legitimate question: "On 24 September 2019 at 17:20, USDCHF moved into the strong sell mode. Looking at the candle chart, you will be selling at the end of the move down. My question is how do you use the sentiment tool to avoid situations like this or how will you have dealt this scenario?" You could have easily made money if you were trading this on the 15M Time Frame, and would have avoided it all together on the 1H Time Frame. Here is how you'd do it. This is [...]

By Charles|September 26th, 2019|

Trading Mindset

Cable Does the Business again! GBPUSD Successful Long Trade

AUDUSD, NZDUSD & EURGBP trade setups taken this week using Sentiment 13/02/21

USDCHF Signaled at the Wrong Time? Nope!

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