How can you identify forex trade setups you might be missing?

What does it mean to miss a forex trade setup?

A missed forex setup is a valid entry signal that met your own strategy rules but that you did not act on in real time, often through hesitation or a lack of confidence. Rihari says he can only spot these gaps by reviewing a finished week of price action after the fact.

In the video he replays his major pairs candle by candle and points out where a signal formed even when he did not trade it. He flags one setup on eu ahead of the US non farm payrolls report where, he says, "I should have just went into this trade for sales" but held back because he felt he was "lacking confidence in it," even though the chart showed the same rejection pattern he had traded successfully elsewhere that week.

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How does Rihari review his trading week to catch missed setups?

Rihari says he rewatches each week's charts on a handful of major pairs, marks both the trades he took and the ones he passed on, then compares his actual entry and exit against how far the move could theoretically have run.

In the video he does this pair by pair across gu, eu, gj, uj, gold, us30 and nz. For each one he narrates the structure break, the retracement, and the point of interest that triggered his entry, then shows where price ended up by the end of the week. He is explicit this is a recap of past trades, not a live demonstration, and that his biggest quoted ratios, such as a one to forty move on eu, are hypothetical outcomes he did not actually hold his position for.

He also says the recap format itself is something he does not usually publish. He mentions that he tracks trades and market breakdowns like this daily inside a separate education platform and signal service he runs, and that this particular video is the first time he has put a full weekly recap together for YouTube specifically. That distinction matters for viewers: the free video shows selected past examples after the fact, while he describes the daily version as something offered elsewhere, without the video giving pricing, access terms, or any measure of results tied to that service.

He gives two examples on gu in the same video. The first, taken just before the London session, he says he closed for about a one to five result before going to bed, even though price kept moving in his favor afterward. The second gu setup, which he says formed later in the week after price pulled back to the same kind of point of interest, he estimates could have reached roughly a one to twenty six result had he held it for the entire week, a ratio he again describes as hypothetical rather than a trade he actually banked.

What price action signals does Rihari say he watches for?

Rihari says his entries follow a repeatable sequence: a break of structure, a retracement into what he calls a point of interest, and a rejection candle confirming that level before he enters, with his stop loss placed beyond the nearby high or low.

He describes watching for "internal breaker structure," "change of character," and repeated "triple tops" as confirmation that a level is likely to hold. On the gj trade in the video he says he specifically waited for price to reject a zone he calls an order block rather than chasing an early move, because in his words "price usually comes back to grab that money" before the real trend continues. He describes early entries into that same zone as a "fake entry" driven by fear of missing out, and says gj was the first pair he ever traded, which he offers as personal background rather than a claim about the pair's behavior generally. He says that gj trade ran to a hypothetical one to eight by the end of the week, while his actual close, taken around midnight, landed closer to a one to six, another example of the gap he draws between a chart's best case and the result he says he actually banked.

On eu he describes a setup that formed after "one rejection here and then three taps," which he treats as a triple top pattern confirming resistance before price fell. He says this same triple top structure repeated more than once during the week, on both eu and gold, which he frames as a recurring pattern in that particular week's price action rather than something that happens on a fixed schedule.

He says that eu triple top trade continued to a hypothetical one to forty by the end of the week had it been held the whole way down, though he closed his own position for what he calls a one to thirteen result after price started retracing back up and he moved his stop to lock in a smaller guaranteed gain. Later in the same week he describes a second, separate eu setup into the same style of point of interest heading into the London session, which he says he closed for roughly a one to five before ending his trading day, again short of the larger theoretical move the chart went on to make.

How does timeframe analysis help spot setups on major pairs?

Rihari says he layers his analysis across three timeframes, using a fifteen minute chart to locate the broad point of interest, a five minute chart to refine that zone, and a one minute chart to time the entry once rejection appears there.

| Timeframe | What Rihari says he uses it for | Example he gives in the video | | --- | --- | --- | | Fifteen minute chart | Locating the broad point of interest after a structure break and retracement | On eu he says the point of interest formed after an "overall change of character" retraced roughly fifty percent | | Five minute chart | Refining the point of interest and watching for the first sign of rejection | On gu he describes a "five minute point of interest" that gave a rejection just before the New York session | | One minute chart | Timing the exact entry candle once the lower timeframes confirm rejection | He says the five minute and one minute charts are "the areas that I'm looking at getting in" once a setup lines up |

He treats agreement across all three timeframes as his signal to act, and treats disagreement, such as price failing to reject a lower timeframe point of interest, as a reason to leave a trade alone rather than force an entry. He also points viewers toward a free Forex beginners guide he says is available in a free Discord linked to the channel, describing it as the place to look up terms like breaker structure or change of character if they are unfamiliar, though the video itself does not describe pricing, membership terms or results tied to any wider platform.

What role does risk management play in evaluating a missed trade?

Rihari says every entry in his recap was sized to risk about one percent of the account, with the stop loss placed beyond the structural high or low that would invalidate the setup, and he treats a review of missed trades as a check on that discipline rather than a chase for the largest theoretical number.

He repeatedly closes positions well before the hypothetical maximum shown on the chart, describing several trades as "only a one to five" even when price continued in his favor toward a much larger ratio afterward. He frames this as deliberate, saying "if you're not happy with a one to five, you know you got to learn not to be greedy." None of these ratios describe guaranteed, typical, or repeatable results; they are his account of specific past trades only, and outcomes will differ for any other trader or period.

On gold specifically he says he avoids leaving a large stop loss because "sometimes it's not worth it," accepting that he will be stopped out on some attempts so long as the ones that work pay for the ones that do not. He states this plainly about his own week: "I definitely lose throughout the week and I'm only losing one percent," which he offers as a description of his own account management rather than a claim that losses are always contained to that level for every trader or every market condition.

What can you learn from a setup that failed to play out?

Rihari says not every retracement into a point of interest becomes a trade; in the video he describes a gu setup that never produced the rejection he wanted before "price absolutely melted" straight through his level, which he counts as a trade correctly avoided rather than a loss.

He also flags a setup where price barely tapped a lower timeframe point of interest before reversing, noting "it's not realistic that we are going to catch all of these orders because of spread." This part of the video is commentary on his own decision making in hindsight, not a general claim about how any pair will behave on a future occasion.

He gives a second example on gold, describing a setup he calls a "sell trap" where price rejected a supply zone multiple times before he finally entered near the end of the London session. He says that hesitation meant a slower entry into what became, in his account, a clean one to five trade, and contrasts it with a separate Wednesday morning gold setup around a fifteen minute point of interest that he says ran to roughly a one to ten result on paper, though he again closed his own position earlier, around a one to five, because he was ending his trading day.

A third gold trade in the same video is the one he says he took directly around the NFP release, after suspecting a sell off in advance the same way he did on eu. On gold he says he acted on that suspicion, entering as price consolidated ahead of the news and holding through the release itself, describing the setup afterward as one of the cleanest he had seen for that kind of news event. He says that trade also ran to roughly a one to ten on paper while he again closed nearer a one to five, which he presents as a contrast to the eu NFP setup he chose not to take at all, showing that the same read on a news event produced two different personal outcomes on two different pairs in the same week.

What steps can you follow to review your own trades for missed setups?

The numbered list below describes the weekly recap process Rihari demonstrates in the video. It reflects one trader's stated method for reviewing his own charts, not a verified or guaranteed system for finding profitable trades.

1. List only the pairs you actually trade regularly, the same way Rihari limits himself to gu, eu, gj, uj, gold, us30 and nz rather than scanning every pair on the board. He says trading fewer major pairs keeps him focused on markets with enough volume for his style.
2. On the higher timeframe, mark every break of structure that happened during the week, including the internal shifts Rihari calls change of character. He treats this as the first clue that a point of interest further back on the chart is worth watching.
3. Wait for price to retrace into a point of interest on that higher timeframe before considering the setup live, rather than reacting to the initial breakout candle. Rihari describes waiting for a retracement of roughly fifty percent or more before he starts paying closer attention.
4. Drop to the five minute and one minute charts to look for a rejection candle at that same zone, since Rihari says this is where he actually times his entries. He describes wanting to see price "respecting" the level rather than simply touching it once.
5. Note where a stop loss would sit beyond the nearest structural high or low, and size the trade so that level represents a small, fixed percentage of the account. Rihari says he generally risks about one percent per trade on this basis.
6. Record your actual entry and exit separately from any theoretical best case outcome, so the review reflects decisions you made rather than the best possible result. In the video Rihari repeatedly distinguishes what he "actually" closed for from what the chart "could have" paid out.
7. Flag every setup you saw but skipped, and write down the real reason, whether it was hesitation, news risk, or the setup simply not meeting your rules. Rihari's own example is the eu trade before NFP, which he says he skipped due to a lack of confidence rather than any flaw in the setup itself.
8. Repeat the recap weekly on the same pairs so patterns in your own hesitation or missed entries become visible over time. Rihari frames his own video as this exact exercise, done publicly rather than only inside his private notes.

What do independent statistics say about forex and CFD trading risk?

Separate from Rihari's own trade commentary, two independently published sources describe the wider market rather than any individual trader's results, and neither one endorses or evaluates RihariFX or its content.

According to ASIC Report 828: Risky business, 68% of Australian retail CFD investors lost money in the 2024 financial year, a regulatory finding that applies broadly across the retail CFD market rather than to any single strategy or educator. Separately, the BIS 2025 Triennial Survey reported average daily OTC foreign exchange turnover of US$9.6 trillion in April 2025, which shows the scale of the market Rihari's recap videos trade within but says nothing about the odds of any individual trader profiting inside it.

Read together, these two facts describe a market that is enormous in daily volume yet one where most Australian retail CFD participants ended the year at a loss. That gap is a useful check against treating any single trader's weekly highlight reel, including the trades detailed in this article, as representative of typical results, since a handful of winning setups picked out after the fact says nothing about a full year of trading outcomes across an account.

Everything above this section describes one trader's own account of one specific trading week on his own channel. Rihari frames the video as a recap of trades he took or considered, not as instruction guaranteed to work for another person, another pair, or another week, and the video contains no pricing, licensing, or regulatory detail about any wider platform he mentions. Anyone using this kind of weekly review as a learning exercise should weigh it against the independent figures above rather than against the handful of winning ratios highlighted in any single recap.