Nice end to the week and month for my trading, GBPJPY rules

Today was spectacular trading for me, little sleep, but it was worth it!  The clue to big profit:  the inside daily candle on the GBPJPY at Thursday’s close, plus that beautiful double top at 141.70 that formed late on Thursday.  Nice!  I usually check the daily charts around 6pm NYT to look for inside daily candles or other chart patterns for the following trading day.  I entered the short GBPJPY position at 140.71, and decided to target 100 pips.  Price pretty quickly went to my target with little hesitations.  I decided to wake up around 2am to check for further short opportunities, I very rarely trade the London open session, but I was a bit behind on my weekly pip count, so I sucked it up.  2:30am I entered a short on GBPJPY at 139.42.  Now, I did use a fibonacci retracement on the down move that started during the asia session and so was looking for the 50% retracement at 139.96 or so to enter the short.  But then I noticed that 139.87 was a resistance level earlier on Thursday and that level again was important.  I again targeted 100 pips.  And again, in about 1 hour my target was hit, which was good because I was tired!  After a few hours of sleep I managed to get myself up at my normal 6:45am to check the 7am trade.  COFFEE..  Again I fibbed that recent run down and the 50% retracement came to 138.82.  As soon as I got my charts up and running GBPJPY touched the 138.82 level to the pip and began decending again, so again I entered a short, at 139.50.  Down she fell and I took another 100 pips.  I was figuring that the 4hour 50ema would hold shorts, and since the lower bolinger band on the 4hour chart was also around this level I was happy to take profit even though price did run down an extra 70 pips or so.  But immediately I thought:  the 4hour 50ema, would be a GOOD BUY.  Since this pair was running up and up all week and the 4hour 50ema was slanted up pretty strongly, I decided that if price did touch it I would try to buy there.  Sure enough soon after the 8:30am news, price touched the 50ema and my entry was filled at 137.00.  I decided to target the 4hour 21ema which is pretty much half way between the lower and upper bolinger bands, near 139.50.  I placed a stop loss 50 pips below my entry.  Within 2 hours my target at 139.50 was hit, another 250 pips.  Incredible day!!  +550 pips today to add to my meager +210 pips for the week.  Nine trades this week total with only 1 loss, trading the GBPUSD and GBPJPY.  Now, off to nap..

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