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Happy New Year!
Well, it's back to trading and I've spent quite a bit of time over the Xmas period looking over the blog and what I've been in 2011. I've reviewed my trades (that's the great thing about having the blog - it also serves as my own trading journal) and asked myself what I liked about my trading and what I didn't and how can I improve going into 2012.
A lot of us getting into trading we buy or seek other trading strategies and most of the time find that they don't work for us.
January 4, 2012
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I've had an awful couple of days with trading as you know but that's the nature of trading.. I'm happy to say that I've covered those losses already and back on the positive path... :)
First trade was taken last night, this was a buy on silver.. I saw that the price action had bounced nicely off a support line and just went long. I had a target of 29.73 which was hit the following morning for 34 pips. People think that trading should be complex but it doesn't have to be.. just look for patt
December 21, 2011
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When you suffer a loss trading, your confidence takes a beating and this can cause you to make a mistake and lose. However, in hindsight, the below trade I placed on the DOW was a great entry but my stop was way too tight and I felt that this was probably because of the previous loss on USDCAD which made me more nervous than usual and I put the stop way too close to the previous resistance level at 10915. My stop was at 10920 and ideally at least should be at least 20 points away from the previo
December 19, 2011
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