Remember: The cypher pattern remains valid until price retraces past X or reaches
the first take profit level (TP # 1), which would trigger your adjusted stop loss if you were already in the trade.
One disadvantage of the cypher pattern is that it has a tendency to provide trading setups in which the reward to risk ratio leans more toward risk than reward (at least at
the first take profit level).
There are a couple of ways to take your profits with the cypher pattern, but the standard technique is to scale out of your position at
the first take profit level and close your trade at the second take profit level.
Not exact matches
It would also be confusing to some traders who intend to
take their
first take profit, for instance, at the 127.2 extension
level, but they don't see a 127.2
level.
In the second instance, we can observe that it's an extension from the
first instance, but in this instance by drawing the Fibonacci extension
levels from the successive waves, a back - up prospect came up after we have
taken our
profits from the extended position.
Some helpful tips: Instead of
taking your
first profits at roughly 1:1 risk / reward, you could scale out at the
first support / resistance
level.
The
first thing you need to do in order to drag and drop your stop loss and
take profit levels in MT4 is make sure that your
levels are showing up on your charts.
Immediately the price has moved in favor of the trade by a figure that equals the original risk, one of the orders is closed because it has reached
take profit the
first level of
profit and the stop loss on the second order is detached to break even.
The strength of the market will usually tell you the likelihood of if your trade will move beyond the
first support or resistance
levels for a bigger
take profit.
If I let it run to the measured objective it will reverse a few pips shy of the
first key
level, and if I
take profit at the key
level the market will run.
Traders watching for this formation could have sold USD / CHF in the candle right after the doji formation to
take advantage of at least 80 pips worth of
profit between the pivot point and the
first level of support.