One third of the trade closes at each target, and the stop moves to the entry after target 1.
Breakout bracket: buy above 27,082.8 or sell below 26,908.6. Both orders were published together and the first one to fill cancels the other.
The other side is Sell stop #65 (expired).
This is a mechanical rule-based signal from the "Pre-news breakout" strategy, placing a buy stop ahead of the US Nonfarm Payrolls release. The rule brackets the last 30-minute range, placing the entry at 27082.8, half a 5-minute ATR above the recent high. If triggered by a volatility spike, the trade targets 27257. However, the higher-timeframe trend is down, and price will encounter resistance at the daily pivot (27162.1) before reaching the first target. The trade is invalidated if it hits the stop at 26908.6, the bottom of the pre-release range. The strategy's historical record warns that actual results often suffer from slippage during news spikes.
ChartPrice structure on the chart: trend, levels, volatility.
The classic news straddle. About four minutes before a high-impact data release for the instrument's currencies (US jobs, inflation, rate decisions, PMIs and the like, from our economic calendar; speeches and press conferences are left out), the range of the last 30 minutes is bracketed: a buy stop half an ATR (5-minute) above it and a sell stop the same below it, at least two ATRs apart. The first to trigger cancels the other, and each one's stop is the other's entry. Orders wait 30 minutes after the release; trades close within three hours. Targets 1R, 2R and 3R.
Caveat: Slightly positive over the last year, +0.04R per trade over 537 trades (gold +0.13R, Nasdaq 100 +0.07R, USD/JPY +0.06R, EUR/USD -0.06R), but one year is too short to tell that from luck. Fills are at the stop price; in a real release spike the fill can be worse (slippage), so the true result is likely lower.
The idea, explained: Trading the news
When this signal was published, its fixed fields were written to a record and fingerprinted with SHA-256. The fingerprint also contains the one before it, so a change anywhere breaks the chain. You can check it in your browser.
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Its rule was not profitable after costs in every period we tested.
News trade: prices can jump when the numbers come out, and orders can fill worse than their price.
A high-impact release is due while the order waits or early in the trade: Nonfarm Payrolls, Average Hourly Earnings (MoM), Average Hourly Earnings (YoY) on 6 Nov at 13:30 UTC.
The spread is a small share of the stop distance (under 10%).
High Risk means at least one check flagged this trade. Size it smaller, or skip it if you only follow Cautious signals. The tag was set when the signal was published and is part of its signed record.
The higher-timeframe trend is down, and a buy breakout will face resistance at the daily pivot before target 1.
Signals scored 40-49 have won 49% of 47 closed.
Confidence is a score from 0 to 100 given by an AI model. It is checked against how signals in the same band really ended, so treat the measured rate as the evidence, not the score. Reading a track record