Nice pickup

I had a nice pickup on the EURUSD right before closing of US equity markets. Grabbing 12 pips profit on a two hour short position. I must admit it was rather interesting at first, and my timing is obviously still off as I should've waited another half an hour before going into the position, but at least my intuition turned correct and I got myself out of it at the right time.

Now the sterling can hopefully do its job too, after the USD did.

On being too risk-averse

Apparently last weeks downer has made an impression on my psyche resulting in me being too risk-averse this week. Below is one of the several examples of such today.

I shorted EURUSD at 1.46065 and purchased it back at 1.46057 giving a mere 1 pip profit. Why? as we can see EUR had a ride with a couple highs testing resistance around 1.4614 so it was simply a relief to close the position at a small profit rather than loss.. but obviously, what I should've done was to stick through it and wait for the drop to 1.4584 which would've given a 22 PIP profit..

Well, we can't win them all...at least the initial expected development was correct, now to work on timing..