Archive for March 20th, 2013

Trading GBPJPY – Frustration and Trading Psychology

Trading GBPJPY - Frustration and Trading Psychology

The GBPJPY trade. I went long GBPJPY the other day and initially, we got a great move.. up 50 pips. I expected the movement to go up much more and 50 pips is a relatively small move in the GBPJPY market. In the afternoon, the price action stalled and fell and then bounced. I felt that the price action wasn’t clean and as a result I closed off the trade with an approx 50 pip loss as I anticipated uncertainty. This morning, there were further falls and I felt great that I had got out of t

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Some Trading Psychology thoughts from last week

Some Trading Psychology thoughts from last week

Last week we made two trades. The first one we took 120 points on the Crude Oil long and the second trade Long Silver. Because of the profits from the Crude Oil trade, I felt comfortable giving the silver trade more room for a chance of a greater move. Unfortunately, the trade ended up as a scratch trade (even though it was in profit at one stage). I found that by having a profit already in the bag, it gives you the buffer to be able to give following trades a bit more room. Even  a smal

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