Trading range was way too Big, the risk? Just a lot. The trade might have been justified by technicals, But what does the plan say about risk? What are the risk parameters of the business model. How do we limit risk on high probability setups?
This is what we came up with:
1. If the market has a big trading range, This means that there's is an increased chance of long term momentum in the direction of the potential retracement . A developing trend might form and invalidate the setup while exposing you to a big risk if your area of value is invalidated. With all this in mind. the solution is to wait for a stricture shift of the developing trend then take an entry where the developing trend is moving in a similar direction to the primary trend.
2. If there is more than one area of value. If there is more than one area of value within a considerable distance from each other. We employ a tactic called risk diversification- where we don't put all our risk at one point in the market, but instead split the risk evenly between the two areas. this preserves capital because it gives the trader a second chance at entry if the market fails on that area. even if the market invalidated the second area, The loss would be that of a single position rather than two separate positions with a similar risk profile.