August 8, 2015 (Fri) ～ August 11, 2015 (Mon) EURUSD + about 11.5 pips

I entered a short position in EURUSD just after 6:00 PM on Friday, August 8th.

From a 1-hour chart, I think it was a range within an uptrend, so in theory the flow should have been to buy, but on the 5-minute chart it was a downtrend, so not ideal, but I made a brave, embarrassing trade by grabbing a low and entering short.

As expected, it moved against me, since it was a range it then fell again, and eventually returned to the higher-timeframe trend. In the end, I hedged with a double-position and a follow-up entry, and by a little past noon on Monday, August 11th, I closed for a profit. I had left it completely unattended during that time, and it became a trade that caused me to fret across the days.

Since this was a good example of being swept up in a range and crossing into another day, I’m uploading the image.