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Confusing Long Term vs Short Term trades – Trading the Dow Jones

Confusing Long Term vs Short Term trades - Trading the Dow Jones

I had spotted that the Dow Jones had made a double top and I shorted it as it retraced and headed downwards at 12720. At this time I was thinking that this could be a nice longer term trade as I anticipated seeing the Dow decline over the coming weeks and possibly months. I knew that there was support at the 12650 level and if it were a daytrade, this would have been a good place to take profits and take 70 points.. not a bad days work. However, when it bounced, and started to eat into my pro

July 22, 2011 No Comments Full Story

DDFX – EURUSD – Two more trades taken

DDFX - EURUSD - Two more trades taken

There seems to be a trade every couple of days so far with the DDFX system and I took two more over the last couple of days with the EURUSD pair. I got stopped out for my last trade on EURJPY for a 40 pip loss and thought perhaps EURJPY was not a good pair to trade using DDFX, time will tell. Anyway, there was the entry on the 18th where I went long after seeing two arrows and the trene bars were all pointing towards a move higher so I entered. However, I got stopped out for a 34 pop loss

July 21, 2011 1 Comment Full Story

DOW crashes through previous lows.. it’s going down!

DOW crashes through previous lows..  it's going down!

We've seen the DOW propped by up support around 12400 for all of last week and when it broke today I had a short at 12360 which was trigger. It was looking well and at one point I was already 60 points up. Now the markets always seems to find support at big numbers so at 12300 it bounced. I expected this but with a nice clean break to the downside, I didn't think it would bounce that high. I had an initial 80 point stop which I moved down to entry when the market hit 12300 but then hit exactl

July 18, 2011 No Comments Full Story

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