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I got caught in a false break to the downside today. You can see where I had two entries lined up.. long at 15343 and short at 15313. The short triggered and fell about 15 points before it reversed and shot up through my upper barrier 15343 and almost 90 pips.
So, how did I lose out I hear you cry.. well, I have what is called a OCO order.. this stands for One Cancels Other which means, which every trade is triggered first triggers the other. So my short trade was trigger first which automa
April 20, 2010
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Today was particulary annoying... I had only set up one trade to go for 60 pips with the stop loss move to entry when it moves 30 pips in the desired direction..... except that I didn't move the stop loss. I also did do my usual 30 pip trade!
Now, I must tell you that over the weekend, we had a system crash in my normal 9-to-5 job... this result in us working the whole weekend... I'd had very little sleep and in hindsight, when fatigued you need to be careful trading.. simple mistakes can
April 19, 2010
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This was my trade today.. two long entries at 1.5433 with a target of 1.5463 and 1.5493 with a stop at 1.5397. The annoying thing is that this was hit and I ended up down 2 x 30 pips loss.
You can see that the market then went up and would have hit target 1 and just shy of target 2.
Most annoying but there you go....
April 14, 2010
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