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I like to always keep in check which waves are relative to which and so I have marked this downtrends waves that were to be traded using the black lines. I have deleted 1 of your trades which I considered risky and without enough evidence based on what I can see. If I could see further to the left I may be able to justify the location but in this image I can't. I have marked in the areas of interest using the white boxes so lets start from the top.

1. The first sell is what I call a 3 point turn wave which simply means that an area was reacted from strongly and then this area was pulled back to to be retested. The inside bar once in that box was your evidence that others may feel the same way and the break of it was your entry trigger.

2. The 2nd sell is what I call a trend continuation wave (or leaning ghost) and that just means that we already have both lower lows and lower highs in stone and we are just following the trend on a very safe 3rd wave. the pullback reaches an area that was hesitated at on the way down on the previous wave that you can see as the start of my white box. The pinbar is then your evidence of this area being retested and the passing of that pinbar back down is your entry trigger.

3. The 3rd sell is another trend continuation but it is the 4th wave and starting to get less probable now so we need more evidence. In this case the fact that the 3rd wave down was much much greater in size than the 1st and 2nd waves down on the overall move shows no slowing whatsoever and only more power so the 4th wave becomes logical. The white box I have drawn in uses the 2 points of buying reaction on the down and this is our area of interest as a mirror flip SR. The candles are not very clear cut and you may or may not be able to get in to this trade. (This is the problem I found with candles and their attachment to time, VIP members use my WavEFX organic timeless charting system that I have developed over the years)

4. The 4th trade is the buy that occurs after the move starts bottoming out and provides us with that next white box that is then reacted to once again and is also setting up the break out of the trend line you have drawn in. Indecision candles show the retest of the area and then give you your entry trigger point.

When it comes to targets on all of these trades I like to keep things simple and shoot for either a 1:1 or a 1:2 risk:reward. In this chart I see 2 trades that would have been candidates for 1:2 and the rest were all 1:1 only. Once you have your entry point it means that you also know where you stop loss will go, this then means you know where your take profit will go. This is all known before you enter the trade and I have developed an EA that will do it all for you once you tell it a few parameters which takes about 1 minute. We run this EA on the EFX VPS service accessible from any device with internet and so it can be done from anywhere you like.

Hope this all helps, I don't suppose I could help you that much with just text and just this 1 post but it's a start. Fire away with any questions.

The X at the end of your chart provides you with an entry point on the break of that pinbar yes ...and a location that was created and returned to yes... but the scale is different from all the other trades on the chart and so if you wanted to trade that scale then your entry trigger would need to be a smaller candle from a faster chart. Using this chart you can see where your stop loss would need to go and you can see the top of the last push up which is where a smart take profit would need to go. That allows you to understand your risk vs your reward and judging by eye on this chart it doesn't look that appealing at all. By dropping down timeframe to get a faster entry and smaller stop loss you lower your risk and your reward / take profit point remains the same but you also get weaker candle signals as you drop down timeframes so you need to find your balance. On this chart I would not take that X trade and your trend lines on that part are way too pre-emptive for my tastes. To make it the right scale of wave you would want the pullback at least to the top / mirror flip area from your black horizontal line further below.

Your main trend lines on this chart and your horizontal support and resistance look great. I have slowly over the years been able to get away from trend lines and stick with only horizontal areas but I did find them very useful for a long time. The point I found eventually though is that in order to draw in trend lines you already had lower lows and lower highs or higher lows and higher highs on that wave scale so the trend was clear without them. As you can see on my version of your chart above everything was taken care of with horizontal areas.

waiting for reaction from an area and then the pullback with candle confirmation is something I ended up calling the core trade. It was my number 1 winner with the best risk:reward and so I stuck with it and it was a real turning point for me. Now that years have passed and WavEFX has been born there are ways to get into that initial reaction on your chart both top and bottom but I'll save that for later. In short though; on your above chart they would be counter-trend waves so they would need to be at great locations to follow the trend of a greater wave scale if you get my drift. 

You are right, the news moves the markets. In my opinion though it is easier to read the reaction to the news with solid technical analysis via evidence based trading techniques. The other option is to follow all categories of economic news for all major countries... a daunting task I think you will agree. The first option has proven itself enough for me to be confident with it but I do still like to observe what time the major news releases hit because they may change the on chart evidence if it is too close to the time of entering a trade. Even then though I have noticed that the majority of the time there are clearly big players with inside info, it can't be coincidence that so often perfect evidence based setups appear to set up the news release.

This is all very hard with time based charts though which is why I developed WavEFX.