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Today was particulary annoying... I had only set up one trade to go for 60 pips with the stop loss move to entry when it moves 30 pips in the desired direction..... except that I didn't move the stop loss. I also did do my usual 30 pip trade!
Now, I must tell you that over the weekend, we had a system crash in my normal 9-to-5 job... this result in us working the whole weekend... I'd had very little sleep and in hindsight, when fatigued you need to be careful trading.. simple mistakes can
April 19, 2010
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The chart is a 5 minute chart of the GBPUSD. I had woken up later today than usual to see that the market had moved. The two horizontal lines show where the long and short entry should have been but as I was late and saw that the market had already moved 25 points away and that I was feeling that I missed out on the short.. I entered a short manually... whilst it did move 30 pips in my direction which would have usually been bagged.. for some reason, my brain wanted more (I had a target of 100
April 16, 2010
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Hmm, same thing happened to me today. I had a sell at 15233 with a 40 pip stop and a 60 pip target... the market knew where my stop was and hit it... then promptly fell and hit what would have been my target of 60 pips.. well what can I do? Annoying that it is, that's what happen.. hopefully it won't happen tomorrow!
April 7, 2010
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