Joseph, the NZDCAD example is nice. Unfortunately, it is very easy to cherry-pick examples from the past. Not all the valid signals are at the beginning of a major trend. I have yet to see the money management approach - TP/SL at least - that would allow anyone to determine if you could in fact gain the 1000 pips in the example provided, and further from a more general perspective "if you could fail with this"!
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