Fading

First trade today I decided to fade situation that I usually use as a trigger for a break out and trend continuation trade. The thing is that there was sharp selloff during the night and this is bounce back. So I guess that my gut feel told me to do it so. It was correct 19 pips 0.95R. Interesting thing was that I clicked on exit and platform freeze and was "communicating with server" for 10-15 seconds. Then it gave me 4-5 pips better price than I originally clicked.

Second trade, I was looking at that 5min chart and wanted to short a spike to up trendline if it happens, like it happened before. It stop earlier and I guess I wanted little more drama so I shorted. I heavily base my decisions on all other pairs when I trade one. So I was looking at usd/chf and eur/jpy at that time. Usd/chf was bouncing but eur/usd didn't follow that scenario. I hate when there is no correlation when usually there is one. So eur was strong on it's own. It was messing with previous high in eur/jpy so I just didn't want to get out of that trade in a loss. Then when it came to make new high and on other fronts things were not so rosy I unpopularly averaged. Yes, I know, it's no good but I did it again. I had in my head everything that was said yesterday in the comment section. I just wanted to do it. Bad thing about averaging is losing control and having no exit strategy. Maybe I should just trade my first trade of the day and close it like before. In beginning of trading day I'm not inclined to gamble like later. Later when I have previous profit I just don't want to give it back and that is not good reasoning. That's the facts.

19, 2|16 pips
0.95, 0.1|0.8 R

37 pips, 1.85 R