nathan....
Always trade with the dominant fashion, use longer time frames, and learn to identify the ranges and support and resistance of those ranges and tendencies, anticipate to get the market retrace from the entry point before it reaches your take profit.
Here's a link that I hope you'll discover benificial....
Http://www.trading-naked.com/library...ing_system.pdf
no matter what egy you choose use this to help determine the market sentiment, fantastic luck and may the pips be together with you.
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