Posts Tagged shorting the dow
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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You can see the triple top set up on the 5 minute Dow with the Pivot being the resistance. A good point to short so had a short order at 10887 and rode it down to 10855. My original target was 10840 but hey, I'm still in profit.
March 31, 2010
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I shorted the DOW when it broke the trendline at 9740 or so.. however, it wasn't the perfect entry as the market bounced from this area of support to go north... I had a stop at 9780 which was the previous high but nonetheless, my short wasn't ideal as short trades should be entered on a long countertrend.
I had to watch the market go against me 30 points or so before it tanked.. it went past my entry point and I took profits at the round number 9700 for 40 points which wasn't bad. However, t
September 30, 2009
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