This is how I plan my trades if I want to use an EA, EAs are good but if you draw the trend lines and know where the trade is going that would help a lot.
Its very important to have the trend lines on your chart even if you want to use EA ... i am trying to show this point in a small video file I have created.
This video is for education only, the pair I chose is a high risk pair that’s why I chose, so no one follow my steps
I am just trying to pass the knowledge, and not trying to influence any trades.
I know the video quality is a bit poor, but if i use a better quality the file will be too big... try to get the general idea thats all.
Anyhow I said US/JPA is going down almost a week ago ( and GBP/JAP is the same as US/JAP), and I made the chart for that, but only few reads between the lines, see the post
Trading signals and recommendations
For testing the EA i am enabling going short and long but as you have seen on the video on GBP/JAP I would only go short.
When you understand the trend, you are almost sure where to place your trade, so listen to me and draw the trend lines it takes only 1 min.