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AUDUSD – Got caught by the Stop Hunters

AUDUSD - Got caught by the Stop Hunters

  This is what Friday's trade looked like. You can see that a support was formed at around 10400 and I went long after the second bounce of the support level. Although the price action was still in a downtrend, I felt that we had a good chance of a good move up from this level and hence the long trade. However, I got stopped out as the price action pushed down below support taking out the stop and then finished above the stop again. This to me looks like a push to trigger the stops b

February 3, 2013 No Comments Full Story

Why it’s Important to be Consistent Trading. My Trading Results for the Week

Why it's Important to be Consistent Trading. My Trading Results for the Week

This week we had two trades.. AUDUSD long and EURJPY long. I'll go through both of these and why I entered. Firstly AUDUSD [caption id="attachment_7671" align="alignnone" width="580"] Long AUDUSD[/caption] I went long here as the market had found a base.. it had retraced after a move up and I thought it would actually move above the previous resistance point at around 10600 and if it did, a huge move above. The following day, the market indeed shot up and if I was cautious and doing my

January 27, 2013 No Comments Full Story

Woke up richer by buying the Aussie (AUDUSD)

Woke up richer by buying the Aussie (AUDUSD)

[caption id="attachment_7664" align="alignnone" width="599"] Buying AUDUSD[/caption] Last night, I went long the Aussie (AUDUSD) forex pair at 10517. From the chart you can see that there was support at 10500 and the trend had been up so this was a retracement play. The first target is the high at 10600 but what I would really like to see is a break of this.. if so, we should see a strong move upwards. I could take profits around 10600... to be safe, 10590 has more chance of making it but

January 22, 2013 No Comments Full Story

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