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Some trading opportunities on the DOW

Some trading opportunities on the DOW

I have my day off today and I wanted to watch the markets and not be desperate to trade. A problem is that when I come home from work and find that the markets have moved a lot with a lot of profit left on the table, I feel that I missed a fantastic opportunity and feel that I need to do something to get some of the profits..  as a result, I fire off trades from my trading platform even though there is no real reason to.. this amounts to losses and then frustration. However, today, I entered

August 22, 2008 No Comments Full Story

Trading or Gambling?

Trading or Gambling?

Unfortunately my trading goes from bad to worse.. I feel quite demoralised and I am not even looking at the charts properly and analysing before putting on trades. I just turn on the charting platform and put on the trades and lose. In fact, if I did the complete opposite to what I am currently doing I probably could do well!!! Right now, when I buy, the markets go down, when I sell, they go up! It seems that the markets know exactly what I want to do and just to the opposite to cause as much pa

August 13, 2008 1 Comment Full Story

Daytrading frustration… when to stop?

Daytrading frustration... when to stop?

Today was another disastrous day trading.. I have been trading on/off for over a year on this blog and I still am miles away from being successful. My stint with the trading academy showed signs of success before they terminated my contract (illegally... it's going through solicitors currently) and recent courses have proved to be fruitful. I know trading takes a long time to learn and although this blog has been running for over a year, I have actually been trying to trade for much longer t

August 12, 2008 No Comments Full Story

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