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Stopped out on the Silver Trade

Stopped out on the Silver Trade

Silver silver silver! So we have been holding onto our Silver trade for almost a week now and despite the bullish candlesticks, it failed to go where we wanted it to go...   the price crashed below our stop and we were taken out of the market. Grr, we're not doing so well with our trading so far and it's frustrating. A lot of people at this point abandon their trading strategy.. it's times like these where we need to focus and build on our work to date.. not throw it all away and start a

February 11, 2013 No Comments Full Story

Bagged some profits trading the Dow Jones..

Bagged some profits trading the Dow Jones..

I entered this trade after seeing downtrend pattern in the 5 min charts looking to turn. The stochastics were also oversold and looking to head upwards. In the 1 minute chart, the 20 minute moving average line (which was functioning as resistance) became support and I traded off a bounce and got in at 11244. The market soon shot up and bounced off 11300 and I closed out at 11286 for +42. The market has since reached 11360 which is another 74 points which I missed out on! I bagged my pro

July 8, 2008 No Comments Full Story

The facets of investing – fascinating site for anyone interested in the stock markets and Excel

I didn't know how to describe this properly but I found a fascinating site at http://www.gummy-stuff.org/ This site has all sorts of data which show all sorts of fascinating and interesting things to do with the stock markets. The spreadsheets are great, you can use them to do all sorts of stuff... you can do things like download financial data from Yahoo and draw all sorts of graphs, run simulations and generally tweak to your hearts content. I got lost in this site for hours downloading an

June 16, 2008 No Comments Full Story

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