Trading AUDUSD | Judas Swing Strategy 07/03/2025Last week was a slow one for the Judas Swing strategy, with barely any setups presenting themselves. Throughout the week, we closely monitored the currency pairs we trade ( FX:EURUSD , FX:GBPUSD , OANDA:AUDUSD , and OANDA:NZDUSD ) scouting for setups with the Judas swing strategy. After days of waiting, a promising opportunity finally emerged on $AUDUSD. In this write-up, we’ll take you through the details of how this trade unfolded.
We arrived at our trading desk five minutes before our trading session began and immediately started looking for potential setups. After 35 minutes, we saw a sweep of liquidity at the lows of $AUDUSD. The next requirement on our checklist was to wait for a break of structure (BOS) to the buy side to confirm our bias. An hour later, the BOS finally occurred, leaving us with just one last condition to fulfill before executing our trade.
We saw a retrace into the Fair Value Gap (FVG), completing all the criteria on our entry checklist. With our conditions met, we executed the trade with the following parameters:
Entry: 0.63024
Stop Loss (SL): 0.62822
Take Profit (TP): 0.83431
After executing the trade, we were in profit for a few minutes before price reversed, putting us in deep drawdown. But did this phase us? Not at all. Why? Because we had risked only 1% of our trading account an amount we were fully prepared to lose. This meant that regardless of the trade’s outcome, it wouldn’t affect us emotionally or disrupt our trading mindset.
This is exactly how we want you, as traders, to approach the market. When you risk only what you can afford to lose, you protect yourself psychologically, avoid unnecessary emotional stress, and create the foundation for long term success. Trading with this mindset will allow you to stay disciplined, make rational decisions, and ultimately see better results
When we checked on the trade again, we saw that we were back in profit. We didn’t let this affect our mindset because our objective for this trade had not yet been met. Instead of getting caught up in temporary gains, we remained patient and focused, waiting for the trade to play out fully
Unfortunately, we had to hold this trade longer than expected as we waited for the final outcome. This time our patience didn’t pay off, and our OANDA:AUDUSD trade ended in a loss.
Some of you may be wondering why did we hold for so long? Based on our backtesting data, the odds are in our favor when we take a set-and-forget approach rather than actively managing the trade by moving stops to breakeven after reaching 1R or taking partial profits. We have a system, and we followed it. Our data has shown that sticking to this strategy yields better results over time. As traders, we encourage you to remain disciplined and trust your system. No matter the outcome of a single trade, staying committed to your plan is a win in itself
