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Usually I really don't like trading the Dow as there is always a lot of short term noise which tend to mess up your trades by whipsawing the price action beyond your stops and then reversing. The main reason I guess is because the Dow Jones average is comprised of just the 30 biggest stocks and movement within the biggest one can move the markets.. in other words, market manipulation with the Dow Jones is not unheard of.
Anyway, I did place a couple of trades.. firstly a short at 10908 which
September 23, 2008
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My trading of late hasn't been very good and I've lost focus hence the lack in the number of emails.. anyway, I spent time away to think through and go back to the basics.
Trading the DOW is definately a way to lose money.. the DOW is just a basket of 30 stocks and is easily manipulated... quite frequently when you see a move beyond a level, you expect it to move beyond but no, more often than not, the market will just reverse and do the opposite.. the big boys are obviously aware of the smal
August 26, 2008
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I have my day off today and I wanted to watch the markets and not be desperate to trade. A problem is that when I come home from work and find that the markets have moved a lot with a lot of profit left on the table, I feel that I missed a fantastic opportunity and feel that I need to do something to get some of the profits.. as a result, I fire off trades from my trading platform even though there is no real reason to.. this amounts to losses and then frustration.
However, today, I entered
August 22, 2008
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