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Losing faith in the trading system…. GBPUSD forex trading

Losing faith in the trading system.... GBPUSD forex trading

Well, this is when you start to doubt your system... I started off trading this morning breakout strategy with some amazing success but this last week... couple with my own stupid mistakes of not following the system have really bashed my confidence in the system that I have been trading these last couple of weeks. The morning breakout happened to the downside.. a short at 15321, with the usual 30 pip target and SL at the other end of the channel (60 pips in this case). The short proved to

April 25, 2010 No Comments Full Story

Stopped out GBPUSD trade for double whammy!

Stopped out GBPUSD trade for double whammy!

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 Comments Off on Stopped out GBPUSD trade for double whammy! Full Story

Daytrading the DOW

Daytrading the DOW

I shorted the DOW when it broke the trendline at 9740 or so.. however, it wasn't the perfect entry as the market bounced from this area of support to go north... I had a stop at 9780 which was the previous high but nonetheless, my short wasn't ideal as short trades should be entered on a long countertrend. I had to watch the market go against me 30 points or so before it tanked.. it went past my entry point and I took profits at the round number 9700 for 40 points which wasn't bad. However, t

September 30, 2009 No Comments Full Story

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