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As you can see from the chart, the GBPUSD has been in an extremely bearish market. However, when I saw the bullish pinbar, I knew my trade would be a countertrend trade where I would have to be extremely careful, ensuring that I don't end up losing pips.
With my last few trades, I've been holding out for the longer trades but they've not been working out for me so I'm going to split my trades... I'll report on the ones where I have had my most success (ie daytrades) on Twitter but will be
February 24, 2013
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This is what happened from trading crude oil. The trade was opened last week and the blog entry for it is here:
http://www.makemesomemoney.co.uk/days-of-negative-price-action-on-crude-oil/
This is another example of when holding out for larger moves doesn't work out and is therefore making it hard to justify this way of trading. This week, two trades were stopped out and both in loss when if I had followed my previous way of closing out trades I would have been in profit.
The chart is b
February 17, 2013
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Unfortunately, EURUSD broke through the lower bullish trend channel line and our stop was hit.
I've been thinking a lot about holding trades longer as I've known that this is one of my weaknesses in trading and with this trade, I did hold the trade and didn't meddle with it.. however, the price action didn't go where I was hoping it would and the trade ended up in a loss.
It's extremely frustrating when this happens, my old method would have meant that I would have taken profits at 135
February 17, 2013
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