EURNZD appears to be forming a weekly double bottom and showing a clear amount of hidden bullish divergence. if we drop down to the daily we can see a daily inside bar (DIB) has formed and remains unbroken after the weekend (no major gaps that broke anything etc)
If we apply a breakout strategy to the inside bar and applying a pattern ( double bottom ) to give a directional bias i am placing a BUYSTOP entry order above the DIB with a stoploss below.
this yields a stop loss of around 130 - 140 pips which is a little more than i like to risk, so i am reducing my lotsize accordingly to keep designated risk in check. for me this means i am using 3/4 or 75% of my usual lotsize.
If we apply the same to the stoploss and take 75% of 140pips which is comparable to 105pips risk at the full lotsize. for me personally this is on the higher end of a stoploss for this strategy and i find anything over 100pips risk generally isnt worth trading due to skewed rewards.