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Stopped out on FTSE today

Stopped out on FTSE today

A trade which I forgot to post on Twitter.. probably a good thing as it was a loser but it was so very close to a winner! Anyway, I thought this was an interesting trade. I've posted this showing a 4 hour chart but I actually took the trade from the Daily, you can see the support area (in blue) more clearly. I went long the FTSE at 6589 see that there had been two days of falls and we were going to fall and hit support soon. Although support was at around 6560, I actually had my stop at 6540

September 18, 2013 No Comments Full Story

Sorry for lack of Updates

Sorry for lack of Updates

Apologies for those who have been following my updates on Twitter and then coming to the site to find that I've not updated the blog to go through the trades. Trading for me is becoming more stringent in the way that i select my trades.. my ruleset for trading has been greatly narrowed and overall, it seems to be working out. Posting why I've traded a particular trade is pretty repetitive as I am following the same ruleset time and time again to enter my trades. I do have the tendency to pu

September 18, 2013 No Comments Full Story

Scared out of the trade which would have brought in big Profits

Scared out of the trade which would have brought in big Profits

This is going back a while now but a trade that I had put on the 5th August - those following my Twitter feed would have seen this. I went long AUDUSD after seeing a pinbar as you can see from the pic below..  the next day it went up and the following day, you can see that there was some retracement. In the Daily chart, it looks fine but if you actually saw what happened that day, you would have gotten spooked which is what happened to me. I saw that I was 70 points up at one stage and then

August 14, 2013 No Comments Full Story

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