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The chart is a 5 minute chart of the GBPUSD. I had woken up later today than usual to see that the market had moved. The two horizontal lines show where the long and short entry should have been but as I was late and saw that the market had already moved 25 points away and that I was feeling that I missed out on the short.. I entered a short manually... whilst it did move 30 pips in my direction which would have usually been bagged.. for some reason, my brain wanted more (I had a target of 100
April 16, 2010
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This was my trade today.. two long entries at 1.5433 with a target of 1.5463 and 1.5493 with a stop at 1.5397. The annoying thing is that this was hit and I ended up down 2 x 30 pips loss.
You can see that the market then went up and would have hit target 1 and just shy of target 2.
Most annoying but there you go....
April 14, 2010
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Hope you like the title of the post! It's my attempt at some rhymning!
I hope my chart diagram makes sense below. My strategy now is to trade two lots at the entry price, one has a target of 30 pips. The other has a 60 pip target which, when the first trade hits it's target moves the stop loss to entry (to hedge from any loss) and then hopes to grab the 60 pips.
Well, the first target was hit for 30 pips.. yay! The second trade still runs but the stop moves to entry. However, the market sp
April 13, 2010
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