This was a straightforward trade. I entered long as I saw the price action move strongly up to hit resistance as in the chart. I entered long at 3095 and attempted to ride it as high as it would go. You can see that the price action starts to lose momentum at around 1700 hours (UK time) and a final push up which then falls below the previous high which is a sign of weakness. I got out there at 3125 which gave me a total of 30 pips!
Today my focus was getting short on the GBPJPY forex pair. I decide this by looking at the daily and 1 hour chart. This gives me a rough idea where I think the market is heading. This is purely a visual thing to see the direction of the trend... nothing complicated. What is a bit more complex is looking for an entry after you've decided which way you want to trade. I've annotated the chart slightly differently today and I'll go through it now. So after deciding to go short in the
The chart of the Euro (EURUSD) today on the 1 hourly was as below: The Euro had a very strong day yesterday and when the market opened today, it was really watching to see if the market would break yesterdays highs at 13370 and continue upwards or fall. It's very tempted to buy on the break of the high but after such a strong move yesterday, any long entries would have been on a pullback for my liking. However, the price action broke above and demand was just not there for it to go any hi
