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Buying and Selling the DOW

Buying and Selling the DOW

If you look at the 1 min chart of the Dow Jones below.. you can see that the market in the yellow box wasn't doing too much.. however, I was trading in this region, selling and buying when I should have been doing anything. I saw that the market had dropped and I was expecting to see a bounce back up to around 8500 at least... however, the adage is 'trade what you see, not what you think' and I failed miserably.. in total, I made two trades in this region,  both lost to the accumulative amount

December 1, 2008 No Comments Full Story

DOW JONES trade… yet more profits on the table

DOW JONES trade... yet more profits on the table

I got in the perfect entry today after seeing the market was trending down and I got in at 8382..  I got out far too early though at 8355 so grabbed only 27 points.. the market fell as far as 8285 which was a further 70 points..  I am finding it difficult to hold onto profits and 27 points is so measly compared with what it could have been!

November 25, 2008 No Comments Full Story

World Trading Time table

World Trading Time table

Forex trading can be a 24 hour endeavour and depending on the time of the day that you're looking at the markets can determine what you should be trading. Obviously, it is best to trade with the markets that are most busy as they will be liquid markets and allow you to place trades in a liquid and more true market. However, just what is the best instrument to trade at the time that you're looking? Well, this is the question that I asked myself and off I went to compile a quite chart on when bes

October 22, 2008 No Comments Full Story

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