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It was a good job I missed my trading entry….

It was a good job I missed my trading entry....

Today I was in a conference call, desperately trying to get out and look at the market before 9am but alas, it was not meant to be and I missed my entries and had to let them go by... I look again later on in the day to see how they would have gone and it was good that I missed my trading entry.. well, at least for GBPUSD anyway: The entry would have been right at the top of days range, literally to the pip and then tanked, I would have lost 20 pips! The EURUSD would have faired bet

March 31, 2011 No Comments Full Story

My 20 pip profit today – GBPUSD and EURUSD

My 20 pip profit today - GBPUSD and EURUSD

I haven't been posting my trading entries for a little while as I never got much feedback from it and thought that people weren't interested. However, lately, I've been getting emails from people asking me if I am indeed doing any trading at all and the answer is indeed YES! Every day in fact, I'm looking at the markets and putting on trades where I can. Anyway straight to it.. today I had two trades open, short GBPUSD at 15981 with a 10 point trailing stop and a long EURUSD at 14053, once ag

March 28, 2011 No Comments Full Story

Winning Trades which make no Money

Winning Trades which make no Money

This was me today... I put in an order for a buy on the GBPUSD at 16018 or a sell at 15956 with a 20 pip stop and a 40 pip target. As you can see from the chart, the GBPUSD shoots up and actually goes beyond the 50 pips... However, I made no money on this trade at all. At first I got really annoyed, an easy 40 pips in the bag and my broker has screwed me over. I checked my emails and can see that the order was being placed, however, I had forgotten to fund the account properly and t

November 10, 2010 No Comments Full Story

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