Pre-event price action:

Trend within trends on the smaller timeframes

Patterns that conflict each other - You may get a H&S but with that is a double bottom for example. They do this intentionally to get traders committed to the wrong direction

Ranging price staying close to short term MA's

Swings and spikes all of a sudden - This is a stop loss hunter activation taking liquidity from the high and low of a potential range

Ask yourself these questions:

Do I understand intra-day levels?
Do I understand pre-event price action?
Do I understand trading with ranges and price accumulation?
Do I have a risk model that protects me and my account no matter where the price goes?

Important:

We're approaching NFP so we should all be taking it easy on the markets. If you're new to trading or less experienced, know that money in your account is a position in the market, you don't need to trade every day! If you are going to trade, make sure every thing lines up and the chart makes sense to you, the structure is right and please make sure you have a risk model in place. There is nothing wrong with testing the levels, but testing levels with no risk model in place then simply fooling yourself into thinking it's a swing trade, will really damage your account.

Just like that, brutally completed targets ❤️

No more longs! Read the KOG Report please

Level to level please

This morning

Not bad. Now we're at a crucial level which price may attempt to breach but we can't long up here. We have NFP looming and they will want to start the pre-event price action which entails either ranging up here or taking us back into support

Another day in the office!