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![Trading the DOW after it's already made it's huge move!]()
I came back home and fancied a bit of trading.. my trading has been going ok lately and I've introduced some swing trading into my repetoire... I'll talk about that later but for now, let's concentrate on the DOW.
So, the DOW had already made a 150 odd gain and I got home wanting to grab some profits. The trend is up on the DOW so we're looking for long trades when the market retraces. The retraced happened off 10390 back down to 10350 and I had entered my trade a little early at 10360 where
July 13, 2010
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As you can see from teh chart, there has bene quite a long consolidation channel.. it's almost been 4 days since the market has been bouncing around 15200 and 15080.
I had two lines, 15209 and 15083 and was looking to take a position if the market went beyond this range.
The market did indeed break above my upper line and I went short with a stop at the bottom of the line, 15083 and a 100 pip limit. However, the immediate short term top was 15220 or so before the market fell.. it's current
July 6, 2010
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I forgot that the US markets are not open today due to Independence so perhaps it probably wasn't a good day to trade. Oops!
Anyway, I shorted the GBPUSD at 15120 as it moved below the support line. It dropped 15 pips... I've got a 80 pip stop and a 75 pip target on this. However, it's currently retracing and that's the thing on holidays. Low volume means that it takes less to move the market and could also mean that some traders go stop hunting... that's moving the prices around to take out
July 5, 2010
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