The Matrix has you. Will you take the red pill? Or the blue pill?
I marked some entries with arrows above or bellow the signals that trigger a position (in the direction of the arrow and the candle) at the closing price of the candle. I also highlighted some weaker signals that would have ended in stop losses. It is hard to pick the strong signals from the weaker ones, but I try and do my best, and sometimes practice counts towards experience and sometimes experience counts for better decision making and results.
I actually traded that big bearish candle marked with "x" (Short at closing price). I stopped out with my trailing stop at the white dot level. All trailing stops are marked for the purpose of providing examples with dots. I prefer using trailing stops using the big candles in my position direction just in case I am on a big wave that can go to unexpected levels without looking back. Those moves might be rarer (blue arrow example) but they count on the bottom line of the trading account. And they can make up for the potential losses of the weak or uninspired signals.
As an exercise of prediction or intuition, I placed some rectangles in our matrix just to watch out for any specific, interesting events near them. I also marked some levels which could turn out to be support and resistance levels. I am highly interested in any candlestick shadows that might appear at these levels, or even a close of a candle that qualifies as a potential signal.
How will USDCAD Escape from this Matrix? Does it even matter if we just trade the good signals and ride the wave? Sometimes it does not matter to know or predict the future. You just have to make the right choices, or we have to understand our choices in case we are living in a Matrix simulation and our choices are 100% predicable.
Happy trading and may the profits be with you!
PS: If you were living in a simulation with 100% of your choices being predictable from the perspective of the knowledge of all information available about you and the world you interact with, would you fight for that 1% of control? or would you completely abandon the notion of Free Will? Would you take the Blue Pill or the Red Pill? Would you fight Enlightenment? Or would you die for it? The Death of the Ego is one of the Worst Experiences a human can experience. A nightmare. Just like the notion that we are in a simulation. Not even rats in a lab science project. But bits of information in a Quantum Supercomputer that dictates where our markets go.