Today's red boxes

A lot of news on the way so please play defence on your trading. Lot sizes are important, they allow you to be flexible in the markets and reduce the panic when price can potentially go against you. Your lot size gives you time to think and plan, big lots on small accounts is a recipe for disaster

If you’re trading an account size:

Less than £500:
LOT SIZE – 0.01 with a MAX LOT SIZE OF 0.03 AT ANY GIVEN TIME - You need to pick your trades and pick your entries carefully. Your risk needs to be low, however, a 0.01 lot size will give you flexibility when the market goes against you.

£500 – 1000:
LOT SIZE – 0.02-0.03 with a MAX LOT SIZE OF 0.06 AT ANY GIVEN TIME – You need to pick your trades and pick your entries carefully. Your risk needs to be low, however, a 0.02-0.03 lot size will give you flexibility when the market goes against you. Split your entries and take partial profits along the way until your target is reached. E.g Enter 0.03, when you reach 10-15pips take 0.02 in profit and set the stop to entry, let 0.01 run to the target with the trade protected.

£1000 – 1500
LOT SIZE 0.05-0.07 with a MAX LOTS SIZE OF 0.10 AT ANY GIVEN TIME - You need to pick your trades and pick your entries carefully. Split your entries and take partial profits along the way until your target is reached. E.g Enter 0.05, when you reach 10-15pips take 0.03 in profit and set the stop to entry, let 0.02 run to the target with the trade protected.

£2000+
LOT SIZE 0.05 – 0.15 with a MAX LOT SIZE OF 0.17 AT ANY GIVEN TIME - . Split your entries and take partial profits along the way until your target is reached. E.g Enter 0.07, when you reach 10-15pips take 0.05 in profit and set the stop to entry, let 0.02 run to the target with the trade protected.

Too many traders get stopped out and blow accounts because their lot sizes are too bit. A small reversal on the pair and panic sets in because a high percentage of the account is in drawdown. They take the loss and the market ends up going their way in the end. This is not the way to trade! You will make money but ultimately you will face huge losses on your account. The market is designed to play with your emotions and your greed, you need to use this to your advantage. The only way to protect yourself is money and risk management, it’s a fundamental tool and skill required to trade.

It's only level to level on these now, we're getting late in the session

Basically, take what the market gives and sleep well

I missed the move:

Are you sitting there thinking you missed the move? As a trader it doesn't matter where the price goes or what it does. We need to have the discipline and a set of rules that we stick to like we're robots. We trade the day, we make the most of it and we take what we can. Whether it goes up, goes down, it doesn't matter, you're here to trade it within the parameters of your trading system and strategy, then get out and enjoy the rest of your day.

Education and analysis is so important. We have to learn the behaviour of the market makers, the price action and the structure of the chart. I need you guys to remember this, "the market will always give you an opportunity, either to get in, or to get out". Levels don't lie, price needs to create structure and fill voids, it needs to test price points almost to see if it likes it or not.

RED BOXES:

We’ve been using these now for a few years and they have proven to work extremely well when combined with our other strategy as well as a standalone strategy in itself, once you have experience. You need to have a plan and you will need to have basic knowledge of price action, you can add MA’s, indicators of your choice, and use these with your own strategy to limit your drawdown and identify when you may be in the wrong side of the market.

You will notice the boxes, just like usual support and resistance will give RIPs. Keep an eye on KOG’s bias of the day together with the targets as well as the analysis we share on the KOG Report updates. This will help you to make a plan for the day, then add the red boxes to your charts and hopefully you’ll notice a difference in your trading.