As the week progressed the trading opportunities in the 5-minute chart EUR USD went from frustration to good to ideal.
As the week started good ‘scalp’ opportunities were taken within a tight trading range (shown by the thin red line below). However, on a final-buy (shown by the blue arrow below) I got it wrong; not with the trade, as this happens and I’m happy to take a small loss, but wrong because I left it too late to exit. This took away all that days good work, and a bit more. Frustration.
Trading is such that I need to be 100%, or, sensibly, I don’t trade. The edge is too small to do otherwise.
The middle of the week, shown below, was cautious but good with a few successful short sells and no losses: a short-sell is a trade that profits from the market price going down.
The ideal trade came with a ‘swing’ trade at the end of the week.
Late in the evening the EUR USD chart provided three pushes up, usually a sign of a final move, with the final move up being an exhaustion bar (a bar that is usually bigger than recent bars). This provided the high at the red box above. I took a short sell near the high with a buy back at the blue box. This more than made up for the error early in the week.
Slow Trader 
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