What was hurting my trading is reading fundamental news in the morning thinking it provides me the correct direction and then immediately going market long or short based on news bias instead of trusting my TA patterns. Other issue is that when I am right in trade direction not holding my winning trades a little longer. I did better today did not read news, but still killed trade 2 ticks earlier than I should have even though I made a profit. I just wanted a win today after my stupid loss yesterday where I went short based on news against 2 TA patterns. For intraday trading, best to just rely on patterns based on the chart not on reading the news. Obviously, if you know a Fed report is coming out right before you are going to place a trade, you can wait till after that otherwise the information is contained in the chart for you to analyze and make a decision from with some patience to get into the trade. Also, I don't mind the market moving a little in my direction if I am not sure before placing the trade.
Hi OW, the news are not important only when they are released as they may have an impact on price so we need to be prepared to notice anything out of the ordinary at those particular times...