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Pinbars are usually great indicators showing strong buyers or sellers in the market. Typically, you would follow the strong participants in the markets as there is a greater chance of the price going your way if you follow them.
However, this wasn't the case for the GBPUSD forex pair on Friday. I actually placed a long on the Thursday seeing the pinbar. Now, it was a countertrend trade which is more risky and the day before, we did get a very strong sell bar. However, the pinbar as you can s
June 22, 2013
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As you can see from the chart, the GBPUSD has been in an extremely bearish market. However, when I saw the bullish pinbar, I knew my trade would be a countertrend trade where I would have to be extremely careful, ensuring that I don't end up losing pips.
With my last few trades, I've been holding out for the longer trades but they've not been working out for me so I'm going to split my trades... I'll report on the ones where I have had my most success (ie daytrades) on Twitter but will be
February 24, 2013
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My order at the end of last week missed it's entry by a mere 10 pips which is rather annoying. I was correct about there being strong support at the 15480 level except that the buyers came in earlier at 15490 and pushed prices up to 15660 which is +170 pips! It would have been a very nice start back into trading if it had trigger but it's given me confidence that my analysis is still good and I can still see good trades.
If I had an entry, I would have moved my stop to breakeven and see
August 5, 2012
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