Are you looking for guarantees? I'll let what I have to say speak for itself. If it's useful to you, great. You'll be the only and best judge of that. The length of time I have been trading and consistently profitable is irrelevant.
Then why did you make use of a performance metric only to delete the post? Was it because your example proved to be unprofitable?
To anyone thinking I should have stayed in the long trade through the news, they probably would not have been saying that if it had taken off in the other direction. Especially with such a relatively tight stop, I'd have been taken out for a loss rather than an almost 1:1 reward/risk. The trick is not to worry about stuff over which you have no control and to exert sound decision based execution strategies in-trade. eur/usd has operated within the core sector levels almost to the pip this morning and has just hit the primary target at 46. Given the upper boundary wasn't breached before the cut-off time of 11:15 BST there is still just a 43% probability of it making it to the second target at 3673.
I've had one trade today. A long eur/sd taken at 3608 with a stop at 3598. I closed the trade at 3617 ten minutes prior to US data release at 13:30 BST.
What part of "I'm not trading the dead spot" did you not get? edit: Even if I had taken a trade at that point where I specifically said I wasn't, and had placed a stop below the median level which is what I suggested, it wouldn't have been stopped out in any event.