Missed opportunity review: GBP/JPY spiked 500 pips in 24 hours

It looks as though my analysis for GBP/JPY making a reversal was correct. However, my short term entry needed to be improved for me to profit on my intermediate term analysis. In particular, I should have looked at a major short term resistance line instead of an arbitrary weak resisitance line as I did when I entered the long previously. That didn’t go so well as I was stopped out soon afterward when GBP/JPY was consolidating.

In hindsight, if I’m to try for a reversal, at least wait for the price to break a strong short term resistance and then use the recent low as the stop. The preferred resistance line for GBP/JPY in this missed trade can be seen in Fig. 1, which I drew many days ago and also can be seen in my previous entry (Figure 2 on that page, the higher of the 2 lines). New Figure 2 attached below shows the bigger picture of GBP/JPY in a daily chart to see what could have perspired. My target of 148 was spot on too!

GBP/JPY, 3-hour

GBP/JPY

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1. Story of a bad trade and a missed opportunity
2. EUR/USD +95 pips in 2 hours: An example of swing and day trade convergence
3. Paper trade: Stopped out AUD/JPY longs @ 81.3 (+7 pips) and 81.29 (-28 pips)
4. Paper trade: stopped out of AUD/JPY 83.59/84.90 (-130 pips) and EUR/JPY 136.73/137.50 (-77 pips)
5. Paper trade: Closed EUR/JPY @ 135.00 (+500.1 pips)