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Daily Bar breakout on GBPUSD for 60 pips

Daily Bar breakout on GBPUSD for 60 pips

The markets had fallen hard the last couple of days and I thought that they would have fallen a lot more but yesterday, the markets found some support. This pattern was seen across the DOW, FTSE and other currency pairs. I knew that a lot of people were expecting the markets to tank completely but having a whole day where it consolidated presented an opportunity in my opinion. The markets would either rally or drop like a stone and I expected whatever happened the market would have moved str

March 8, 2012 No Comments Full Story

Nice Gold trade today

Nice Gold trade today

I took a nice Gold trade today. You can see that Gold in the medium term seemed to be heading lower and the retracement found strong resistance around the 1711 level causing a pin bar sell off. I placed an order to sell on the break of the pin bar targeting previous lows around 1696 which is 5 points. This trade hit nicely and all within around 20 minutes!

March 5, 2012 No Comments Full Story

The Perfect Trading Setup which proved not to be Perfect

The Perfect Trading Setup which proved not to be Perfect

Today I saw a beauty of a set up on the DOW .. the price action had made a double top and not only that, the daily pivot proved to be a good resistance line.. it screamed a short and so placed my trade looking to take the trade down to 11800. However, with markets, anything can happen and this is what actually happened... yes, the market actually went up to hit my stop and I ended up nursing a 30 pip hit. That's the thing about markets, you just never know what can happen and a newbie mis

December 15, 2011 1 Comment Full Story

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