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The whirlwind of emotions of holding the Crude Oil Long entry

The whirlwind of emotions of holding the Crude Oil Long entry

I finally closed my Crude Oil long today and made a nice 120+ points.... a good trade but it was also a fascinating experience for me with regards to my trading emotions. I mentioned that it was a premature entry which I had made on the 25th October - exactly a week ago. I was overconfident due to a pretty good week trading and put on my crude oil long at 8600. I hadn't waited for a confirmation for my entry so psychologically wise, I wasn't best pleased with myself. However, I had committed

November 1, 2012 2 Comments Full Story

Sold Crude Oil going into Resistance – where I went wrong

Sold Crude Oil going into Resistance - where I went wrong

So that's the graph of my trade today where my trading didn't go to plan. Everything seems to be obvious in hindsight of course but looking at this chart, I really should have been more aware of what's going on. You can see where I sold at the double top.. I thought that this would have been a great trade and was looking to take it to 10100 or so. However, if you look at the price action before you see that the price has move outside of the previous resistance, in other words, it found st

January 10, 2012 2 Comments Full Story

Two small scalps for the day on the Financial Markets

Two small scalps for the day on the Financial Markets

The markets have been rather choppy where pullbacks have been quite large. I've been focusing on the 15 minute charts to grab a few pips here and there. Here is what I did today. My first trade was crude oil. I could see that a 'W' pattern had formed in the 15 minutes. I had talked about the W pattern before in previous posts on the blog.. you can read one here: http://www.makemesomemoney.co.uk/2011/09/01/the-w-pattern-in-oil-price/ It's basically the market finding support. I went

December 12, 2011 No Comments Full Story