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Today, we saw massive moves on the Yen pairs. USDJPY had gone up around 250 pips and the GBPJPY around 600!!
On the 2nd of April, I had put on a long for the USDJPY pair after it had bounce off support. I saw that the longer term trend was up but the market was going through a retracement.. I thought that this was an opportunity to go long so I did. I set my stop at 100 pips which was below the previous low and a target of 100 pips also for a 1:1 risk reward trade.
As you can see from the
April 4, 2013
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Unfortunately, EURUSD broke through the lower bullish trend channel line and our stop was hit.
I've been thinking a lot about holding trades longer as I've known that this is one of my weaknesses in trading and with this trade, I did hold the trade and didn't meddle with it.. however, the price action didn't go where I was hoping it would and the trade ended up in a loss.
It's extremely frustrating when this happens, my old method would have meant that I would have taken profits at 135
February 17, 2013
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This is what Friday's trade looked like. You can see that a support was formed at around 10400 and I went long after the second bounce of the support level. Although the price action was still in a downtrend, I felt that we had a good chance of a good move up from this level and hence the long trade. However, I got stopped out as the price action pushed down below support taking out the stop and then finished above the stop again. This to me looks like a push to trigger the stops b
February 3, 2013
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