The hard road to consistency

P/L: -96$
Made a really bad mistake and didn't take a trade when a proper setup was present. There was a chance to short 2985 at about 8:15GMT. I have hesitated and missed the opportunity.
 
Maybe your having a hard time because your trading on 1 and 5min charts??... try trading a time frame thats not so volatile.
I don't think that 5 min is more volatile than 1hour timeframe.I would just adjust my stop and target appropriately. Unfortunately trading the bigger timeframe would produce much less opportunities during the day.
 
how does your system determine your targets? Is it market based or money management based?
I am using fixed stop and targets only. Normally it's at least 1:2 risk to reward depending on the setup
I have tried to use targets based on the market behaviour and most of the time mismanaged the trade.
 
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