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short 1.45415 -- stop above 1.4546 target 1.4530

exited everything 1.4537 -- now at breakeven for the session account value 14,949.. of course had i followed my initial trade i would've been up 700 -- not going to beat myself up over just need more conviction.. next trade probably a short figuring out where..

added another 100k at 1.4527 -- stop on all below 1.4520 target 1.4540

got in at 1.45255 for 375k.. wanted to get in more but moved too quickly

i'm out of everything -- re-evaluating -- touch session.. my hunch was right about it going back down.. timing is off.. account value 14,451.. (down 476 so far) will look to get in on the long side soon --

taking a long 1.4527 stop below 1.4520 target 1.4540.. trading like a fish

exited 1.4521 -- convinced myself it's going back down and went short 1.4525 and stopped out 1.4532.. taking a breather

with spot at 1.4523 moving stop to 1.4515

took the long at 1.45122 -- stop below 1.4505 target 1.4540 area

I went long the EUR for full size at 1.4517 and stopped myself out at 1.4510.. debating whether to re-enter long now at 1.4512

Got back from the movie -- not bad and probably escaped what would've been a bad trading session as I was trading the EUR from the long side and it dropped from 1.4575 when I left to a low of 1.4525.. Got back and entered a long 450K EUR trade at 1.4539 -- just sold at 1.45484.. Account...

Stopped out I just decided that I am going to go watch a movie -- it's a little slow and I'm losing focus -- going to watch Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged Part 1 -- yesterday I saw Water for Elephants which was long and below expectations..

With spot at 1.4584 moving stop to 1.4575

re-entered trade for full size at 1.4578 -- setting stop at 1.4570 -- with target at 1.4590

out at 1.45967 on 250k Account value now 14,680

in for half position size at 1.45864, planning to add other half at 1.4582 if it gets there with stop for whole position at 1.4577 Edit: target on half if it goes other direction is under 1.46

I'm thinking that almost everyone with half of a brain has figured EUR is going up -- so now it follows that moves up will be heavier as more passengers on board, so think the retracements/shake outs have to be stronger / more violent to the downside -- don't want to trade it from the short...

Account value ~14,400 -- planning to take a long if given an opportunity below 1.4585

Thank you for your helpful comments/graphs/and feedback -- I managed to come back with one good trade on the long side and ended the day with 14,550 Will be spending the night re-examining what went wrong and how i ended up getting stubborn and how my position sizing should've been reduced...

Thanks again -- and the start time and end time for it is the period shown on the graph? so for the first one it is 2 years and the latter two it is 90 days, correct?