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As I mentioned in previous posts about the breakout system that I had been trading and losing faith in it. I have to distinguish between them as they are both breakout systems.. I'll call them the 4 - 7 trading system and the 9 to 9 breakout system to signify the time range for drawing the upper and lower lines.
So, I'm talking about the 4 - 7 trading system. As previously mentioned, I was losing faith in the system and didn't trade it yesterday. This proved to be a mistake as the system did
June 10, 2010
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So, as per my previous post, I mentioned that I did trade. I like breakouts so this is very similar to what I was doing before except that rather than taking the low and the high between 4 - 7am UK time, I am taking the low and high of a much higher time frame... 9pm to 9am. I then do the same thing, buy when the upper barrier is breached or sell if the lower barrier is breached. The target is the size of the band and the stop loss is the other side of the range. I wouldn't trade though if the
June 9, 2010
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So, after a period of losing trades, I decided not to trade the system today. However, to see how well it fares regardless of whether I trade it or not, I want to still continue to follow it. In trending markets, I suspect that it works rather well but when the markets are a bit uncertain, is when I don't do so well. If I can figure out when to not trade the markets, then I can continue with the system.. I do like it's simplicity and the fact that it's fire and forget.
Anyway, I didn't trade
June 9, 2010
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