I blew this trade so bad, I was studying the white papers on OMG in early August when it was about a $1.20.... It got put on hold because nothing moves this fast and I have a stack of white papers I wanted to get thru. One day I thought about it and looked it up and I said O My God, it was 8 dollars. Then it went higher, and higher. So this is where discpline comes in, this discpline crap is a lonely life, its no fun at all, but this is what seperates the Winners from the Losers.... I got that fever where I wanted to trade just to get revenge cause I missed this, then it got worse cause it kept going higher and I felt like I was being left out. I felt so defeated and torn that I was thinking I should just close my eyes, roll the dice and push buy. Luckily I associate emotional trading with emotional pain, and if you lose enough money, you will develop this special skill too ;-).
First of all, the price is high, its too high, if you buy it right now, you are gonna be in a world of pain, Nothing goes up forever, except "Bitcoin", and this has made a massive move, I mean huge in terms of percentage points, I dont even know how many zeroes in percentage points this thing moved. So anyways, It looks like its ready to trade sideways and bounce around for a bit, if you look at my buy zone, you will see it is right below a volume stick and the "POC", The Point of Control, its nothing fancy, no complex math formula, it is simply a high volume node, I like to use this when I cant find an entry point, so I throw this up with some FIBS and came up with this buy point, the POC is simply a price where traders did a lot of business, they liked this price for whatever reason and there is a good chance they will defend this price, they defend it by buying more there.
What you want to do here is put in a standing limit order between $7 and $8 dollars with a really tight stop, My motto is "Its not how much you can make, its how much do you want to lose to make it", If you want to buy higher and take 4 or 5 dollars of heat, its your money and be my guest, It simply stresses me out to much and I dont like to lose money, so I dont risk a lot of money to get in a trade, this is why entry points are crucial for me. Anyways, Trading is going to be insane around that POC, why? Cause traders like that price and they want to do business there for some reason. So we want to catch those spikes that blast down into the buyzone and get bought back up, think of OMG as going "On Sale" everytime it dips in the buy zone. if you look at a lot of the most recent candles you will see that they all have wicks, on both sides. This happens because there is an equilibrium of buyers and sellers, they are happy together here, everyone is getting what they want and they have found VALUE here. There is always a chance this will not happen and we miss the trade, but thats ok, we only want the best trades with the lowest risk at stellar prices. OMG has 5 dollar swings, thats pretty serious when you are trading large, so try my idea here if you want a stress free trade. I have no Idea when it will get there, this is a Daily chart so it could be many days before it wanders to that area. So just set your orders and go about your business and one day it will get filled, these volatile currencies tend to have big spikes down and up, so you dont want to miss these. You can also put your Order just above the POC or right on it, it can be pretty tough support at times. But the flip side is that when it fails, you dont have to second guess it, that is why you can have such tight stops.
Good luck!
Be patient
You are waiting at the Buy Zone, so let the trade come to you......
Dont run after it.......