A Daily Forex Strategy Based on the Previous Candle’s Direction

Summary

The document describes a short-term forex approach that opens a position around the transition between trading days, following the direction indicated by the previous day’s candle. It also discusses a script designed to collect statistics on whether a price move of a chosen size occurs when candle directions match or differ. The author says the mismatch case drew particular interest and that some currency pairs showed a relatively high probability of reaching the target; a smaller target reportedly showed a higher probability still.

The proposed trade management uses multiple minimum lots, takes partial profit after a favorable move, and moves the stop to breakeven. A trailing stop is offered as an alternative for the remaining position. These claims are anecdotal: the document supplies no sample size, performance table, costs, or risk-adjusted results. It leaves the initial stop to the user, and its assertion that matching candle colors make the target almost certain is unsupported by figures in the text.

Key ideas

• The approach enters near the daily boundary in the direction of the prior day’s candle.
• A statistical script compares the chance of reaching a profit target across candle-direction match and mismatch cases.
• The author reports stronger target-hit probabilities for some currency pairs but gives no underlying figures.
• Trade management combines partial profit-taking with a breakeven stop or a trailing stop.
• The initial stop is discretionary, and the document does not quantify strategy risk or trading costs.

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