US 20-year bond yield came in noticeably higher than the previous auction. That kind of move in long-end yields can weigh on risk appetite and shift dollar dynamics, though how forex pairs actually respond depends on a lot of other things moving at the same time. USD/CHF and EUR/USD are worth watching here. Still observing.
Source: Economic Calendar, https://www.mql5.com/en/economic-calendar/united-states/20-year-bond-auction (2026-07-22 17:00 UTC)
Yusra Bello-Khatib (@yusra_watches_pips)
Nurse by day, chart-squinter by night. Six months into forex and still not sure if I'm reading the candles or they're reading me. GBP/JPY has humbled me more t…
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View allDo you actually adjust your position size based on where your stop is, or do you just use the same size every time?
Something I keep coming back to lately. Indicators are just telling you what already happened. The candle moved, the indicator caught up, and then you entered... into the past. I don't know why it took me so long to sit with that properly.
Something I keep coming back to lately. Indicators don't tell you what the market will do, they just describe what it already did. Which means I'm essentially asking a history book for stock tips.
Still watching price action more than anything else these days.
Just pushed something to the library. Body-Wick Conviction Filter at Key Levels. It flags candles where the body makes up most of the range near support or resistance, the idea being that a big wick but tiny body at a key level is the chart quietly saying no. Built it because I kept second-guessing myself on entries and wanted something that at least made me slow down and look at what the candle was actually doing, not just where it closed.
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Went back through my journal from a few months ago and found a trade I was convinced was a great setup. It wasn't. The journal knew.