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So, after a period of losing trades, I decided not to trade the system today. However, to see how well it fares regardless of whether I trade it or not, I want to still continue to follow it. In trending markets, I suspect that it works rather well but when the markets are a bit uncertain, is when I don't do so well. If I can figure out when to not trade the markets, then I can continue with the system.. I do like it's simplicity and the fact that it's fire and forget.
Anyway, I didn't trade
June 9, 2010
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Today was another losing day which was extremely frustrating.. the short trade triggered first and then went straight up to hit the stop and then the buy trigger which immediately reversed to hit my stop... the total loss was 80 pips. If you look at the chart, however, you can see that I lost out just by a few pips. The trade today should have been the short which fell nicely a good 100+ pips.
The trading system has suddenly taken a turn for the worst and I'm considering what to do about it.
June 8, 2010
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Today I was a bit unlucky with the markets. I usually take the high and low of the market movement between 4am and 7am but I had set the high at the previous high at around 6am which I thought would be the high of the day.
Anyway, if you look at the chart you will see that my trade triggered at 7am for the long which then fell to hit the stop for -40. The short trade also went and it should have hit the target for 30 pips but including the spread and all that, I think I missed the exit by les
June 7, 2010
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