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Sold Crude Oil going into Resistance – where I went wrong

Sold Crude Oil going into Resistance - where I went wrong

So that's the graph of my trade today where my trading didn't go to plan. Everything seems to be obvious in hindsight of course but looking at this chart, I really should have been more aware of what's going on. You can see where I sold at the double top.. I thought that this would have been a great trade and was looking to take it to 10100 or so. However, if you look at the price action before you see that the price has move outside of the previous resistance, in other words, it found st

January 10, 2012 2 Comments Full Story

Positive start to New Year 2012 – Trading EURUSD

Positive start to New Year 2012 - Trading EURUSD

Happy New Year! Well, it's back to trading and I've spent quite a bit of time over the Xmas period looking over the blog and what I've been in 2011. I've reviewed my trades (that's the great thing about having the blog - it also serves as my own trading journal) and asked myself what I liked about my trading and what I didn't and how can I improve going into 2012. A lot of us getting into trading we buy or seek other trading strategies and most of the time find that they don't work for us.

January 4, 2012 3 Comments Full Story

Trading Silver during the Xmas Holiday period

Trading Silver during the Xmas Holiday period

I don't usually like to trade during the holiday period but I saw a nice set up today and with it being quiet, I thought to myself, what the heck.... I was looking at the silver 1 hour chart and as you can see, there's a nice downtrend in the 1 hour charts. Where I had entered too, the price had hit and bounced off the downtrend line and had also formed a double top. Traders call this confluence, when you get two or more confirmations in the technicals as I do here. I entered at 29.05 and my

December 27, 2011 No Comments Full Story

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