06/23 Intra-day trades

Today was a negative day, I can't say it was badly traded, except for one thing: deciding when to stick to a profit target or when to scratch a trade. I scratched trades that went to their targets and stayed on trades that went to their stops. There were plenty of opportunities, here is a recap of what I observed and traded:

1) The first perfect set up happened as I entered the room. I didn't take this trade, but took a snapshot of it, notice the previously failed bearish engulfing, when the second one came about, the double-top was telling the buyers were getting out of steam.

2) I took this short set up, exited too soon, it reached the target

3) Took this 1-2-3 break-out, it went positive about 4 pips, but then reverted back to hit my stop. I was holding on to reach the daily's open, it ended up reaching that level, but I was already stopped out

3) Bearish engulfing on GBP/USD: I didn't take this set up, took the EUR instead, as it turns out the EUR didn't make it, the GBP made it to the target.

4) Bearish Engulfing on AUD/USD: We could have avoided this loss by observing the news release calendar. There was an announcement at 09:00 AM and we took a trade right before it.

5) Bearish engulfing on EUR/USD: This reverted right on me, I didn't lock in profits when it got close to the 1:1 target.

6) Bearish Engulfing AUD/USD: Took this trade, it made its way to the target, I exited sooner at the 13 EMA.

7) Bullish Engulfing on AUD/USD, reverted on us, stopped out.