I'm back and guilty, can't stand the profits

I usually scalp counter trend reversals. In this instance funny thing is that I faded my feelings. I asked myself would I like to buy it here "NO" inner voice said. So I bought it. I did it like this because in places where I'm sure that price will reverse it just continues the trend. So if I'm dead against reversal maybe it's time for reverse. Maybe it's just luck. +6 pips


After the bullish news for usd I shorted aud/usd because I made some trendlines before. It looked like if it don't break to the upside it would fall heavily. The reaction to the upside was to big, other pairs didn't show that as much aud/usd so position #2 was in. +17 +24 = +41 pips


I for sure can't stand the profits. When I saw that I have more than 20 pips on two positions each I just couldn't stand any idea about giving back even tiny bit of profits. I have about 30 pips a week target so this is big and I'm not giving it away. It doesn't matter in that moment that bigger swing idea from which this trade originated is still valid and even more it's working. I just couldn't stand in it. It's fine with me. I think that first of all I got to clean the house regarding averaging, moving stops, etc. Letting profits run is secondary problem and I think that sequence is a must. So one step at the time.

This is first trade in a two weeks, those profits pushed my adrenaline high. Maybe adrenaline just scared me, and thoughts about 30 pips target and not letting profit away are just mental explanations after the fact. I got big adrenalin high, I got scared or I got body reaction for adrenaline and I needed to get out to stop adrenaline flow some more.


I can say that analysis of bigger time frames can aid my scalping. Maybe I will never trade from bigger t/f and never take as much is wise to get, but I can get good things from even using it on level like now.


Greed is good. Whole idea of this trade was to catch aud/usd fall and get maybe 100 pips or more, it pushed me in. No matter the results are different, it's usually like that.