Forex Trading System What happens when 1 pin fails to break?
Forex Trading: Usd Chf pair
In the chart above shows 2 highlighted pin bars.
If a trader took the first price action pin bar (marked as 1) and placed his stop loss right at the bottom of the pin -
He would get stopped out and would have possibly missed the winning move upwards.
How can we improve this?
- This is the reason why i always recommend traders to place their stoploss 10 pips below the edge of the pin. By doing so you would still be in the trade and not get stopped out by the next bar.
- If you did get stopped out by the next bar. You would have gotten back your pips in this trade as the next bar formed another pin bar (marked as 2). This forms a double pin bar. A setup that shows that price is indeed going up.
Therefore you would still get back into the trade on this pin bar and took it right up.
Alot of traders when got stopped out by at the first pin would not have taken the 2nd pin due to the fact that they had made a loss in this pair, and they