I just closed out a couple of trades for a +37 and +49 profit... I have already broken the rule from my previous email which says that I should run with winners and close out losers. I have closed out my winners here but at least, it was in profit.
I spotted an excellent long entry and went for it, got in at 175.61 and closed it out at 177.23 for 162 points! Hoorah, that's a nice gain. I could have held it longer.. it's gone up another 20 points since but I can't prise myself off this computer when the charts are moving. I think the market has further to go.. there was a huge reversal on the US and UK markets today after all the help with the Financials from various governments.
I put on a trade today, the USDCHF short. I have a trading channel as drawn and then I went out with my stop in place. I expected the market to fall and it did fall sharply at one point. If I were around I would have probably closed the position early after it bounced off the bottom of the trading channel. It rose from this and broke above the high of the channel triggering my stop for -50. It is extremely annoying when this happens as at one stage, this trade was +50 up when it reached the b
