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What you did well
The entry was solid. Price broke above the horizontal base (~96.01) and was trading above the 200 EMA — both conditions met. You caught a clean continuation move and held through the bulk of the leg up. The exit also followed your rules — you exited when structure broke on the way down after the ~96.80 peak. That’s disciplined, textbook execution of your system.
The gap: no stop loss
Your rules define entries and exits, but there’s no hard stop loss rule. This trade worked out, but if price had reversed immediately after entry (fakeout above the base), there was nothing to cap the loss. The horizontal base at 96.01 is your natural invalidation — a close back below it means the breakout failed. That should be your stop.
R:R was unknown going in
Without a predefined stop, you can’t calculate risk-reward before entering. A proper structure: Entry 96.17, Stop 95.95 (below the base, ~22pts risk), Target based on next structure. Your actual outcome was +42pts, which would be roughly 1.9R on a 22pt stop — a decent trade, but you didn’t know that going in.
Exit timing — left money on the table
The chart shows the peak was around 96.80 and you exited at 96.59 on structure break — that’s fine and consistent with your rule. But the annotations on your own chart say “two strong candles — careful” near the top. If you’re reading that in real time, it can be a cue to tighten a trailing stop rather than waiting for full structure break.
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