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Bullish Pinbars on Silver chart but Price not following!

Bullish Pinbars on Silver chart but Price not following!

On the 4th of February we saw our first bullish pinbar and I went long at this point. I knew that there was some resistance at 3220 but the underlying trend looked bullish. The next day the price did go up around 30 points and then again, we got another bullish pin (two pinbars, surely a very positive sign) off the moving average. At this point I was expecting a huge move up but the following day we got a strong sell day. My trade is still in and my stop is at 3115. I really don't know where

February 10, 2013 No Comments Full Story

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

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