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Snatching profits from Trading the Aussie (AUDUSD)

Snatching profits from Trading the Aussie (AUDUSD)

Trading the Aussie, that's the AUDUSD forex pair last week I saw a double bottom (as per blue horizontal line). The price action was quite strong but the underlying trend was Short so once again, like the GBPUSD trade earlier, a countertrend play. I went long at the close of the pinbar at 10296 and watched to see what would happen the following day. Price did indeed go up but hit resistance on the moving average line. I got out at 10328 (not bad as the high of the day was actually 10340,

February 24, 2013 No Comments Full Story

The countertrend trade on GBPUSD

The countertrend trade on GBPUSD

As you can see from the chart, the GBPUSD has been in an extremely bearish market. However, when I saw the bullish pinbar, I knew my trade would be a countertrend trade where I would have to be extremely careful, ensuring that I don't end up losing pips. With my last few trades, I've been holding out for the longer trades but they've not been working out for me so I'm going to split my trades... I'll report on the ones where I have had my most success (ie daytrades) on Twitter but will be

February 24, 2013 No Comments Full Story

EURUSD breaks through the Trend Channel and our stop is hit

EURUSD breaks through the Trend Channel and our stop is hit

Unfortunately, EURUSD broke through the lower bullish trend channel line and our stop was hit. I've been thinking a lot about holding trades longer as I've known that this is one of my weaknesses in trading and with this trade, I did hold the trade and didn't meddle with it.. however, the price action didn't go where I was hoping it would and the trade ended up in a loss. It's extremely frustrating when this happens, my old method would have meant that I would have taken profits at 135

February 17, 2013 No Comments Full Story

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