All breakdowns+3.0 R
GBPUSD · SHORT · 15 Jul 2026Discretionary
A discretionary short — profitable, and still flagged in the journal
- Context
- A setup against the daily bias — the mechanical rules vetoed it. I took it as a conscious discretionary exception based on reading the context, decided before entry.
- Trigger
- A prominent sweep candle above liquidity, confirmation by close and a retest of the Model 1 level.
- Entry & management
- Short at the retest, stop 9.8 pips, 3R target. Execution exactly by the process: 0.5% risk, set & forget.
- Result
- +3.0 R — marked in the journal as discretionary, separate from the mechanical model. Discipline held; whether discretionary selection carries an edge will be decided by the collected data, not by impressions.