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The below chart shows what happened to the Euro (or EURUSD) forex pair on Friday.. the price action had plumetted shortly after the pin bar (as highlighted in blue).
I was actually a day late with this trade but the price was pretty much as the same level of the close of the Wednesday bar so I shorted it. My initial target was the previous support level 12885.
You can see that the price hit that yielding me 50 pips but it also continued to fall.. there was another 50 pips in the move.
November 4, 2012
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I finally closed my Crude Oil long today and made a nice 120+ points.... a good trade but it was also a fascinating experience for me with regards to my trading emotions.
I mentioned that it was a premature entry which I had made on the 25th October - exactly a week ago. I was overconfident due to a pretty good week trading and put on my crude oil long at 8600. I hadn't waited for a confirmation for my entry so psychologically wise, I wasn't best pleased with myself. However, I had committed
November 1, 2012
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I've had a really good week trading the markets... just under 300 points in profit in total through being extremely disciplined and selective with my trading. I find that there are so many personal caveats that we have to work on for ourselves to improve on our trading. The markets cause havoc with our emotional states and it's easy to swing from elation to desperation to frustration all in a few minutes! Being too far into any particular emotional state is disruptive to your trading and overcon
October 26, 2012
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