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I haven't been posting my trading entries for a little while as I never got much feedback from it and thought that people weren't interested. However, lately, I've been getting emails from people asking me if I am indeed doing any trading at all and the answer is indeed YES! Every day in fact, I'm looking at the markets and putting on trades where I can.
Anyway straight to it.. today I had two trades open, short GBPUSD at 15981 with a 10 point trailing stop and a long EURUSD at 14053, once ag
March 28, 2011
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![Trusting your Trading System]()
Today was a disastrous day for one of my trading systems. Let me describe below how I usually trade the system. The horizontal lines are my buy and sell lines, if the market goes above the top line, I buy and if the market goes below the bottom line I sell. The stoploss in either case is 20 pips and the limit order or potential profit is 40 pips.
However, you can see today that the market was rather choppy and the short was initiated first but it never hit the limit before it shot up, hit
February 9, 2011
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The last 3 days were not good for the system and I suffered a 20 pip loss each day. As I traded Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, the total loss for the week was 60 pips! I didn't trade Monday as it was the Bank Holiday yet it would have yielded profits had I done.
It's times like this when you consider whether your trading system is going to work for you... the back testing has shown that 3 days in a row of losses is rare but when it happens, your confidence in the system diminishes and the d
June 4, 2010
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