I've had a lot of stuff on lately and not been able to commit myself to the markets as much as I would have liked. However, I did have some time today and was able to take a simple bounce off the Daily Pivot on the Euro (EURUSD) currency pair. My target was yesterdays high at 13117 and I actually got out at 13115. A simple trade which got me 20 pips!
This is most annoying when it happens but unfortunately it does happen.. it is part of trading. I lost twice trading the EURUSD or Euro today. The trend looked like it was up and my instinct told me that prices would want to test the previous high of today so I'm looking for long positions. However, my analysis was wrong today and both trades as you can see were stopped out. I lost 17 and 15 pips or 32 pips today.
I had a really good week this week.. every day being a winning day until today (admitedly I didn't trade Monday)! This was quite disappointing as I was hoping to close the week on a roll. Anyway, nothing is guaranteed in trading, so long as I win more than I lose, my account balance will continue to grow. My trade today was a short on the USDJPY, the longer term charts, the market was going south so I was looking for short trades. The market went down a little before it reversed. Looks like I
