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Watching for signs of weakness – Trade Crude Oil

Watching for signs of weakness - Trade Crude Oil

As I progress with my trading, I'm finding myself more picky with the trades that I trade. I also like to take the trades off the longer timeframe charts as they are less stressful (though I use the shorter timeframe to enter). Anyway, have a look at Crude Oil today... I post the 1 hour chart below: What was interesting to me from this chart prior to the fall (as you see in the price bar one previous to the current price bar) is that the price had lingered around 10700. Big round numbe

March 13, 2012 No Comments Full Story

Daily Bar breakout on GBPUSD for 60 pips

Daily Bar breakout on GBPUSD for 60 pips

The markets had fallen hard the last couple of days and I thought that they would have fallen a lot more but yesterday, the markets found some support. This pattern was seen across the DOW, FTSE and other currency pairs. I knew that a lot of people were expecting the markets to tank completely but having a whole day where it consolidated presented an opportunity in my opinion. The markets would either rally or drop like a stone and I expected whatever happened the market would have moved str

March 8, 2012 No Comments Full Story

Nice Gold trade today

Nice Gold trade today

I took a nice Gold trade today. You can see that Gold in the medium term seemed to be heading lower and the retracement found strong resistance around the 1711 level causing a pin bar sell off. I placed an order to sell on the break of the pin bar targeting previous lows around 1696 which is 5 points. This trade hit nicely and all within around 20 minutes!

March 5, 2012 No Comments Full Story

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