This was quite disappointing... the market dipped below the lower band to trigger my short but it didn't stay there long. It shot up, took out my stop at 50 pips away and trigger the long. The long got me my 30 pips but it flew 60 pips in total. -50 and +30 = -20 pips for the day...
Friday was coming up to the Bank Holiday weekend. A lot of traders will pack up early and go on a nice long weekend break. Usually volumes are low but I thought I'd put on the usual trades today.... It was not a good day however, you can see that the long trade was initiated at 14568 and it peaked at that point at 14592 (24 pips) before falling and hitting my stop. The short trade was at 14521 and went to 14491 (exactly 30 pips but including my spread, my stop wasn't hit) and went up. I ha
Today wasn't too exciting........ I was rather miffed about yesterdays double loss so hoping today would bring back some results. The lines were at 14488 and 14402. The upper bar was breached and the long trade was initiated... an easy 30 pips were bagged. However, the market initially went to 14541 before a smallish retrace and shot even higher to around 14587 (100 pips) before falling all the way down.. it wasn't too far from the lower of my lines and if a short was initiated, it would have
