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The 9 to 9 trading system

The 9 to 9 trading system

So this is the official name for my new system that I am running on the blog. I call it 9 to 9 as it draws the high and low of the chart movement between 9am and 9pm GMT time. The breakout system then goes long if it breaks the upper bar and short for the lower bar. I traded it yesterday for a healthy profit. This system has a higher pip stop than my usual system so each trade is half the usual size which amounts to around 5% of my trading pot, money management is important! So today, the

June 10, 2010 No Comments Full Story

Didnt trade the system today, look what happens!

Didnt trade the system today, look what happens!

So, after a period of losing trades, I decided not to trade the system today. However, to see how well it fares regardless of whether I trade it or not, I want to still continue to follow it. In trending markets, I suspect that it works rather well but when the markets are a bit uncertain, is when I don't do so well. If I can figure out when to not trade the markets, then I can continue with the system.. I do like it's simplicity and the fact that it's fire and forget. Anyway, I didn't trade

June 9, 2010 No Comments Full Story

27th May – GBPUSD trading

27th May - GBPUSD trading

Today wasn't too exciting........ I was rather miffed about yesterdays double loss so hoping today would bring back some results. The lines were at 14488 and 14402. The upper bar was breached and the long trade was initiated... an easy 30 pips were bagged. However, the market initially went to 14541 before a smallish retrace and shot even higher to around 14587 (100 pips) before falling all the way down.. it wasn't too far from the lower of my lines and if a short was initiated, it would have

May 27, 2010 No Comments Full Story

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