AUDUSD: What I am waiting for to go short

I wanted to post this so as to let everyone know what I am looking for now in this pair after the recent failed trade I took which cost me -18 pips (see Related Ideas: "CLOSED TRADE: AUDUSD: SELL@.70712 SL Hit -18 pips"). In that trade idea, although the setup looked great, it failed. But as with all failures, you can learn something from it. What the price action was telling me by busting my trade idea, my wave count and the pretty patterns I drew was that it wasn't yet ready to retrace. If you LISTEN to what the market is telling you, then you can make better trades.

So in this case, the market was telling me to WAIT a little longer. But what to wait for? If you follow my posts, you know that I will do "look ahead" studies to try to decipher what the market is saying. Here, what I have done is readjusted my wave count to better reflect what I think is happening and also "looked ahead" to see what if any pattern could help me to determine the likely entry point for a SHORT trade.

But why am I insisting that there will be a decline here when I am VERY BULLISH on this pair and even still have 2 open LONG trades as well on this pair? well, nothing goes straight up. Especially in a corrective phase which I have been saying this pair has been in ever since it hit it's lows back in August. That this move up is only a wave 4 correction and we have not seen the bottom. Any corrective wave will have many ups and downs. As is the case here.

So this most recent leg up I am considering to be a wave 1 of an overall larger wave up. So if it is to be a wave 1, then it follows that there must be a wave 2 down, right? And that is what I am looking for to go SHORT and capture more pips. But REALLY, I will be intently watching the PA for this wave 2 down to see where it might end because.....the next move up would be naturally be a WAVE 3! This is why I am SO interested in this wave 2 retracement. Not only because I want to gain a few pips by going SHORT but I also want to try to be on the ground floor of the ensuing wave 3 up!

MY TRADE PLAN
I'm waiting for prices to show me a top here to complete the wave v of 1. So far, it hasn't done that yet. If prices were to go higher here and break above the point where I have marked to be the end of wave iii and gets to where I have the MIN C point of the cypher to be, then that will be what I am looking for to happen before I will consider another SHORT trade. If prices don't get there and instead starts moving down, then I will not take any trade as this kind of action would again prove my count wrong and I will need to again re-assess the situation before making another move. If it does move down and again break my count, I may very well just skip the SHORT trade idea and just patiently wait for the end of the wave 2 retracement and look for a good opportunity to go LONG again.

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