Not really. Give me an example. I just look at price action and trend mostly. When I see a market like aud this morning (US time) that should have a normal pullback and shoots beyond, especially after a long run, it gets my attention.
I look for signs of fear, greed, panic, euphoria, traders who just made a mistake and and haven't realized it yet, or a trend asserting itself and slowly crushing anything in its way. Absent any of those, I try not to trade.
How many of you have put on a trade, then felt either nauseous or like something bad was about to happen? If I put on something and it feels really bad, I get out. I don't look at the chart and try to justify it regardless. Setup, no setup, whatever. Just puke it out.
To trade the way I trade, I believe that things come back to be shot at a second time. If I miss it, so what? There's always another pattern, another instrument. That's not an excuse to be lazy. It just means to stay loose. My worst trading problems come from being locked in and then new...
I took a retracement in the AUD this morning back to the .25 level. I wasn't crazy about the trade because it was getting late. I got out with a 2 pip profit after taking 15 pips in Cad in basically the same setup. Aud just wasn't moving. So I dumped it. Then it sold off hard immediately...
You shouldn't not take a good setup even if it's hard unless there are other extraneous things going on in your situation. If you're angry you probably shouldn't trade. Yours truly is particularly prone to that.
Unless of course you're Wade Boggs in the dugout after losing the World Series. Which some damn Yankee fan was quick to point out to me the next day and thereafter.
I would say that the Canadian dollar, and crude right now for that matter, are caught between longer and shorter trends. So you have setups both ways, in different time frames.