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My trading of late hasn't been very good and I've lost focus hence the lack in the number of emails.. anyway, I spent time away to think through and go back to the basics.
Trading the DOW is definately a way to lose money.. the DOW is just a basket of 30 stocks and is easily manipulated... quite frequently when you see a move beyond a level, you expect it to move beyond but no, more often than not, the market will just reverse and do the opposite.. the big boys are obviously aware of the smal
August 26, 2008
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Last night I saw an opportunity to short the GBPJPY currency pair and I entered at 205.20 with a 200 point target and a 100 point stop order. In the back of my mind, I know that I need to leave these trades running, there have been many occasions where I have closed for 100 to find that the market has moved 500 my way or more! Anyway, I set this trade in motion and went to bed...
I woke up to find that the market had moved and throughout the day, went lower... the lowest was 204.00 which was
August 19, 2008
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I entered this trade after seeing downtrend pattern in the 5 min charts looking to turn. The stochastics were also oversold and looking to head upwards.
In the 1 minute chart, the 20 minute moving average line (which was functioning as resistance) became support and I traded off a bounce and got in at 11244. The market soon shot up and bounced off 11300 and I closed out at 11286 for +42.
The market has since reached 11360 which is another 74 points which I missed out on!
I bagged my pro
July 8, 2008
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