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My EURJPY trade earlier this week saw me get in the trade at a great place... however, once again, I fluffed the exit. The chart is below:
The horizontal blue lines show where I entered and exited. I entered at 10657 after seeing the pinbar. I got a little wrapped up in the lower timeframe charts and saw resistance at 10700 and close the trade. I took 40 pips on the trade. You can see that the trade has since moved another 170 pips beyond my exit.. if I was still in this trade I would be
December 12, 2012
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I've had a really good week trading the markets... just under 300 points in profit in total through being extremely disciplined and selective with my trading. I find that there are so many personal caveats that we have to work on for ourselves to improve on our trading. The markets cause havoc with our emotional states and it's easy to swing from elation to desperation to frustration all in a few minutes! Being too far into any particular emotional state is disruptive to your trading and overcon
October 26, 2012
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Pinbars show signs of strong buying or selling and they are great indicators to enter a market. The safest time to use them as trading signals is with the trend and when the market is experiencing a pullback. An entry with your stop at the bottom of the pin should do it.. then just ride it as far as you can.
There were quite a few opportunities this week and one of my weaknesses in trading is that I am unable to have more than a couple of open trades. As a result this week, I missed a couple
October 19, 2012
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