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Profit!! Just! S&P emini trading

Profit!! Just! S&P emini trading

The markets were looking to head upwards and I put on a long at 136850 with a limit at 137050. It hit target for +9 but then shot up even more to 137400... darn, I left a lot on the table! The second trade was a short as I saw that the market had made a top from the candlestick patterns. The stochastics were looking to cross also. This short was at 137225. It hit my stop for -7 though when the market made a final push a little higher just shy of 137500 and tanked. You can see in the stochasti

February 28, 2008 No Comments Full Story

Back to the simulator and back to winning!

Back to the simulator and back to winning!

Typical, I go back to the simulator and make profits! I went long at 137775 with a target of 138000 and stop at 137550 and took 9 prices. The 5 mins stochastics were on their way up and the 15 min chart stochastics was oversold and I expected some movement up soon. Then I went long when the market went above the previous swing high at 138025 with a target of 138300. However, I took profits manually at 138100 for 3 prices. Total was 12 prices for the day

February 27, 2008 No Comments Full Story

More mistakes – S&P emini trading log

More mistakes - S&P emini trading log

I have shown just my entries in my attached chart... it was another bad day! I entered long where the arrow is green at 138425. I could see that the 5 min stochastics were in oversold territory so there would be a move upwards soon.. was it here? However, if I paid more attention to the 15 min chart, I could see that it was telling me something different, the MACD had cross towards the downside and indicating a short. The conflict of signals should have been a warning! Anyway, I ended up

February 26, 2008 1 Comment Full Story

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