I don't know to put chart...
Anyway I should had hold the trade, looks like gbp is crashing...
When you close out at 20pips profit, what's ur target and what's ur stop loss?
In FX or in any form of trading, there is no such thing as 'I should have'. No one has a crystal ball, we can only make decision at that moment based on the available info.
If you enter a trade without having any form of money mangement (target, stop loss, trade size, etc), I will strongly advise you from doing it again.
In FX trend is all relative. The so-called up or down or sideway, it all depends on what timeframe you are looking. Don't be fear by so called drastic drop or rises.
So what timeframe r u playing and what is your stop? To be honest, a 10 or 20 pips stop, you can't possibly survive. Maybe your style is super short term scalping. Give you a piece of info, as of now, the average daily moment of cable(gbp/usd) is 120 pips. Say you caught it at the wrong side, you need at least 120 pips stop to survive a day!
Anyway, all these are not to discourage you but we all been thru it. Keep a log or journal of all your trades. It helps...
