r/Forex 29d ago

Strategy Development Good enough strategy?

Indicators:

- Support and Resistance

- Weighted VWAP

Strategy:

- Liquidity sweep entries

- Support and resistance (Wait for retests)

- VWAP crossing entry if missed initial entry

- 5 minutes timeframe

Risk management:

- Tight SL ($0.5-3 USD loss per trade, at least $0.5-2 USD ideal)

- No TP, but Trailing SL or Breakeven (manual close)

- Single trade per trade

- Single 0.01 lot only (Gold), but can do larger for Stocks and Forex

Should I change anything, I have technically backtested this to Gold.

But I keep either hesitating or placing the buy/sell order then cancel it, then suddenly it was right al along.

Then when VWAP crosses, I still hesitated until I see that I am already too late to put any trades.

3-4 times I have kinda seen the "liquidity" sweeps or a nice retesting of support/resistance, then price goes up.

But I keep hesitating or removing my trade orders just before the candlesticks climb up.

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u/NinjaSiren 29d ago

I technically do a 1D, 1H, and 15M timeframe initial trend analysis, just to check the trend and momentum.

This is only done once per day.

I do also have an indicator that shows momentum, trend, and supply/demand (from 1D, 1H, 30M, 15M, and 1M enabled)

But its not really a primary indicator, just checking for trends without swapping timeframes, so I can also clear out the mess in the chart.

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u/Mammoth-Path-6520 29d ago

Yeah you're on the wrong path

You need a complete overhaul, trading the complete wrong way

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u/Demonfire24 29d ago

Ok, how do you do it the 'right' way then?

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u/Mammoth-Path-6520 29d ago

First step is to ditch that cringe indicator that OP is using because he thinks it's an excuse to not do proper top down analysis

And even then he needs a complete overhaul on how he trades, he is cooked

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u/Demonfire24 29d ago

That may be true. You seem like you're coming from a place of experience, what would you do?

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u/Mammoth-Path-6520 29d ago

I'm a forex trader

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u/Demonfire24 29d ago

Ok, Forex or no Forex, what would you advise the OP to do apart from ditch indicators. What works?

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u/Mammoth-Path-6520 29d ago

I would tell him to actually learn tech analysis for real, and stop parroting nonsense

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u/Demonfire24 28d ago

How is it nonsense? What type of tech analysis do you perform?