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Money on the Table – GBPUSD and GBPJPY trading – 18th July 2011

Money on the Table - GBPUSD and GBPJPY trading - 18th July 2011

One of the reasons why I post my entries and exits is because it doubles up as my trading log of what I'm doing. I can learn from my mistakes (hopefully) and this should in the long term make me a better trader. Today I got some good entries but I didn't follow my gameplan which would have left me still in the trades. This was for both the below trades GBPUSD and GBPJPY. I had entered both short. The GBPUSD I entered on Friday morning and I didn't feel completely confortable with it as Fri

July 18, 2011 No Comments Full Story

The Rollercoaster of Emotions on the Forex markets today

The Rollercoaster of Emotions on the Forex markets today

For those who read yesterdays post where I had missed out on a nice 55 pip profit on the EURUSD as my system had not identified the exit went to hit the stop target which meant a 28 pip loss overall is rather annoying. This actually means that your account, if you take a nominal starting account of 100 for example, was 155 if I had closed when I thought I should have closed to 72 after the stop was hit. You can see that this means that in fact, I lost an overall of 55 + 28 = 83 pips which is a l

June 15, 2011 No Comments Full Story

When Trading is the Most Frustrating thing…

When Trading is the Most Frustrating thing...

A trade that I still have open is the one below. I had went long at 14438 earlier today on the EURUSD and saw that it had failed to go above 14500 and it did make me think if I should close the trade for a healthy 55 pip profit. However, for this trade, I was looking at the 4 hour and the Daily Charts to gauge an entry and they are still telling me that the market is still in an uptrend... I sure hope so. As you can see from the below chart taken at 22:10 UK time, the price action has fallen all

June 14, 2011 No Comments Full Story

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