Spent all week tracking CPI, BOC, ECB, PPI, and UK GDP.
Forgot to map the levels for any of them.
Classic.
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- Didn't have a plan for today's CPI release. Watched the candle move. Then entered. Classic.
- CPI and BOC are done. The traders who had a plan this morning already know their result. The traders who didn't are still watching the replay, trying to work out what happened. One of those is a funded routine. The other isn't.
