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I was too tired to update my trade last night but I had shorted the GBPJPY at the red arrow. The Japanese candlestick shooting star was the indication for me that the prices were going lower and I had set a stop at 50 points and actually was looking at 150.90 as an exit which was just above the previous low made a few days ago.
The market moved nicely down and when it moved 50 points, I moved my stop to breakeven and left it. However, it bounced up and hit my stop for zero points which was qu
November 11, 2008
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Last night I left you with the result of my trade where the market had moved to about 100 points in my favour but I decided to leave it to run a trend to find that it had got to 20 points from my stop....
Well, last night, I couldn't sleep properly thinking about the trade... my stop never hit but it was so close... soon afterwards, the market dropped (after I woke up to watch it) and I manually closed at 158.29. Perhaps I am never destined to be rich but still, my trade was a good one which
November 5, 2008
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I am currently reading the book Trend Following by Michael Covel which talks about the trend following phenomenon and talks to a variety of traders how how they made it trading. One thing which stuck to mind was the advice which I hear time and time again, cut your losers and ride your winners. A few paragraphs from the book write
"A good example of not letting profits run can be seen in trading strategies that take profits off the table before a trend is over. For example, a broker reveale
November 4, 2008
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