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The Perfect Trading Setup which proved not to be Perfect

The Perfect Trading Setup which proved not to be Perfect

Today I saw a beauty of a set up on the DOW .. the price action had made a double top and not only that, the daily pivot proved to be a good resistance line.. it screamed a short and so placed my trade looking to take the trade down to 11800. However, with markets, anything can happen and this is what actually happened... yes, the market actually went up to hit my stop and I ended up nursing a 30 pip hit. That's the thing about markets, you just never know what can happen and a newbie mis

December 15, 2011 1 Comment Full Story

Two small scalps for the day on the Financial Markets

Two small scalps for the day on the Financial Markets

The markets have been rather choppy where pullbacks have been quite large. I've been focusing on the 15 minute charts to grab a few pips here and there. Here is what I did today. My first trade was crude oil. I could see that a 'W' pattern had formed in the 15 minutes. I had talked about the W pattern before in previous posts on the blog.. you can read one here: http://www.makemesomemoney.co.uk/2011/09/01/the-w-pattern-in-oil-price/ It's basically the market finding support. I went

December 12, 2011 No Comments Full Story

A short term trade on EURUSD – bollinger bands, stochastics and break of support

A short term trade on EURUSD - bollinger bands, stochastics and break of support

I don't usually trade off the 5 minute charts but sometimes you fancy doing some scalping when you're at a loose end. Most of my trading focuses on the 1 hour or the daily charts.. with these, you don't need to be at the screen so much and I've found that you don't worry so much about the 'noise' in the market. Anyway, here is a trade which I took from the 5 minute charts for a paltry 6 pips (I got out as the price action looked as though it wanted to go up and also the stochastics were indic

November 28, 2011 No Comments Full Story

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