I'll preface by saying I could be a great trader. My support and resistance zones are spot on most of the time. My channels are great, I've watched prices bounce off them plenty of times.

I always, always, ALWAYS take profit too early.

My latest example is my short play on USDJPY. I knew BOJ was defending 150. I shorted at 150.4. I held for a while and it finally dropped to about 149.9. I sold my 1 lot. Why did I only have 1 lot? Well, it was channeling above 150 for some days and I figured maybe the aggressive bulls would somehow overpower the fucking government. Of course they didn't. It's at 149.6 now. I basically watched it drop from where I sold to where it was. Why? Not a great entry point.

I'm not a fundamental trader for the most part although this is a fundamental trade. I could've got back in. Last time 150 was defended on USDJPY it fell to 145~. I'm afraid of getting blown up. But any time I go heavy on a position I'm very confident in goes wrong. I'm never given a reason to be consistently sure of my positions in the market. I know not all of them will work out and I'm not blaming market makers. I'm just saying things always seem to go wrong at the right time to keep me from being able to throw money into a position and not care about the outcome.

Playing safe seems to be holding me back, but at the same time pullinhg the stops will definitely get me blown up.

Have any of you gone through this?