Let's look at the balance of the shape! The two entries I passed over.

Even though it's a classic setup, I lost again...

I believe there are obviously many people who have had such frustrating experiences.
There is no 100% in FX, so no matter what method you use, you will inevitably lose a certain number of times.
Even professional traders rarely achieve an average win rate of 80%.

What matters is not just the win rate, but stabilizing the total balance.


This time, I will introduce a “watching/avoiding trade” rather than a winning trade.
By learning the basis for abstaining, it leads to an increase in win rate.
Please refer to it.

A scene on XAUUSD 5-minute chart on 8/10

At first, you may skip, but it was a trade that could have won
Since RR was poor, I split the exit and placed another take-profit further away.
Or, waiting for a pullback to improve RR would have been the correct entry.

IFVG on the 3-top right shoulder. IFVG is relatively good, but
・The range is wide, and with this single IFVG it doesn’t look like it will drop quickly.
・And RR is poor.
・The timing is somewhat early, and it’s not in the kill zone
Honestly, it was a B-rank trade.

And the pattern of abstaining comes after this