{"id":62,"date":"2019-01-18T06:21:49","date_gmt":"2019-01-18T11:21:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/daytradingfreedom.com\/blog\/?p=62"},"modified":"2019-01-18T06:21:49","modified_gmt":"2019-01-18T11:21:49","slug":"trades-17-1-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daytradingfreedom.com\/blog\/trades-17-1-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Trades, Thursday 17th January 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Funny old day, not so much around. Here&#8217;s something different \u2014 a trade I didn&#8217;t take. At first sight it looks like a good setup, but with volume dropping away, yesterday&#8217;s low hanging ominously just above the likely entry, and a general lack of momentum, I stayed out. As it turns out, there was a bit of profit on the table. Again, following the rules means missing out on some winners, but more importantly it keeps us in the game so we&#8217;re around to pick up easier, bigger wins (see below)&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/daytradingfreedom.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/amd-17-1-19-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-63\" srcset=\"https:\/\/daytradingfreedom.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/amd-17-1-19-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/daytradingfreedom.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/amd-17-1-19-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/daytradingfreedom.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/amd-17-1-19-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/daytradingfreedom.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/amd-17-1-19-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/daytradingfreedom.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/amd-17-1-19-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/daytradingfreedom.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/amd-17-1-19.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Like this one on Facebook. A ten minute trade netting over $400 in profit. Could have been more, but a highly volatile price led to a conservative approach, scaling out half at a time. And yes, bars not candles for this one, because bars rule.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/daytradingfreedom.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/fb-17-1-19-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-64\" srcset=\"https:\/\/daytradingfreedom.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/fb-17-1-19-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/daytradingfreedom.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/fb-17-1-19-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/daytradingfreedom.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/fb-17-1-19-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/daytradingfreedom.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/fb-17-1-19-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/daytradingfreedom.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/fb-17-1-19-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/daytradingfreedom.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/fb-17-1-19.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Also note that there was a great easy short available at the end of the session, good for another few hundred dollars profit. Personally I was long gone by then because, you know, I&#8217;m lazy. But it was clearly signalled and there for the taking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Funny old day, not so much around. Here&#8217;s something different \u2014 a trade I didn&#8217;t take. At first sight it looks like a good setup, but with volume dropping away, yesterday&#8217;s low hanging ominously just above the likely entry, and a general lack of momentum, I stayed out. As it turns out, there was a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/daytradingfreedom.com\/blog\/trades-17-1-19\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Trades, Thursday 17th January 2018&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daytradingfreedom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daytradingfreedom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daytradingfreedom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daytradingfreedom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daytradingfreedom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/daytradingfreedom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66,"href":"https:\/\/daytradingfreedom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions\/66"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daytradingfreedom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daytradingfreedom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daytradingfreedom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}