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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
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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
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![DOW scalp trade for a few points]()
I thought I'd have another go at the DOW today since my forex trading yielded a -20 result. I needed to find a way to top up my account!
The Dow was moving lower and you can see the resistance line I drew in. The market was bouncing to this line before heading lower. However, at the blue arrow, the market broke the resistance line and I was looking at a possible long entry at 10532. Luckily for me this did happen as the market tanked. I wasn't flexible enough to short at this stage here so I
June 21, 2010
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