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Two losing Trades this week – USDCAD and DOW

Two losing Trades this week - USDCAD and DOW

Unfortunately, I had two losing trades this week...  firstly the USDCAD long I had gone long this pair as it looked as though the downwards momentum had stopped.. I could see some support here. When I got a bullish signal, I entered long. However, this was very short term as the trend was still short and my stop got hit. My next trade was the DOW short: I got a bearish daily pin bar and the market had recently breached higher yet fell.. a bearish signed. I went short.. unfortun

December 9, 2012 No Comments Full Story

This is where I shorted the FTSE

This is where I shorted the FTSE

This was the chart of the FTSE a few days back when I went short... I was seeing some tails on the candlesticks and the market was overbought and looking ripe for a short. Where I went short was a slightly bearish bar despite there being a bullish tail showing buyers. To be honest, I remember feeling a bit overconfident with the trade was I'd been doing so well over the past couple of weeks... The following day was when I felt that I was correct in my analysis as we were rewarded by a bea

November 29, 2012 No Comments Full Story

Why I’m Long Crude Oil

Why I'm Long Crude Oil

I'm making some changes on the blog...  I'll post live updates on my Twitter feed, for those who would like to follow, the address is http://www.twitter.com/makemoneyalan and then I'll post afterthoughts on the blog to talk about why I entered the trade and analysis. So for those that did follow my Twitter account, you would have read that I went long on the Crude Oil (January) contract at a price of 8769 on the 21st November, taking my entry from the Daily chart which looks like this:

November 24, 2012 No Comments Full Story

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