Posts Tagged foreign exchange
My trading of late hasn't been very good and I've lost focus hence the lack in the number of emails.. anyway, I spent time away to think through and go back to the basics.
Trading the DOW is definately a way to lose money.. the DOW is just a basket of 30 stocks and is easily manipulated... quite frequently when you see a move beyond a level, you expect it to move beyond but no, more often than not, the market will just reverse and do the opposite.. the big boys are obviously aware of the smal
August 26, 2008
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Last night I saw an opportunity to short the GBPJPY currency pair and I entered at 205.20 with a 200 point target and a 100 point stop order. In the back of my mind, I know that I need to leave these trades running, there have been many occasions where I have closed for 100 to find that the market has moved 500 my way or more! Anyway, I set this trade in motion and went to bed...
I woke up to find that the market had moved and throughout the day, went lower... the lowest was 204.00 which was
August 19, 2008
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I went short on the break of the support line today at 11430. I was so sure that we would see a huge move that I went in 3x normal size. The market moved 10 points my way and then reversed tricking myself (and I'm sure a lot of other shorters), taking me out at 11455 for the equivalent of -25 x 3 = -75! Ouch!
The moral of the story is to always bet the same size for each trade.. afterall, you just never know what will happen as we see today. The markets are notorious for doing this sort of th
July 21, 2008
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