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Silver breaks Resistance line shows Sign of Strength – Trading Journal

Silver breaks Resistance line shows Sign of Strength - Trading Journal

Yesterday, I went long Silver at 2994 after the price retraced after breaking a resistance line. You can see that the price had popped up past this line and found resistance at the 3000 price area. You always find that there is resistance around whole number values. When the price fell from 3000 and then rallied, I saw the opportunity to go long.. I didn't wait for the price to break 3000 as I saw quite a lot of strength in the price action. However, as you can see the price did stall for a b

January 17, 2012 No Comments Full Story

Crude Oil – Market takes out my Stop and now looks to continue

Crude Oil - Market takes out my Stop and now looks to continue

The markets have been very difficult to read lately so I've not been able to trade as much as I would have liked..  if I'm not sure or just feel that I'm not in sync with the markets, I rather be out. Anyway, I saw a nice set up today. The Crude Oil markets were in an uptrend when the price fell and pulled back. My thinking was that the pullback was going to be shortlived as the price would continue to fall after this. The top as you can see in the below chart was many things.. it was where

January 13, 2012 No Comments Full Story

Closing the Trades before the Big Moves – Friday 6th March – Trading Journal

Closing the Trades before the Big Moves - Friday 6th March - Trading Journal

Today was a bit of a disappointment in terms of trading for me today.. not because I lost, I actually am a little up today but because of my trade management. I had got in 3 wonderful trades today but I failed to capitalise on all of them which was mightily annoying but gives me a lot of food for thought in improving my trading going into 2012. Learning to trade has taken me ages and it's great to be finally profitable but it could be so much better if I could manage the trades accordingly.

January 6, 2012 No Comments Full Story

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