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![Trading the DOW after it's already made it's huge move!]()
I came back home and fancied a bit of trading.. my trading has been going ok lately and I've introduced some swing trading into my repetoire... I'll talk about that later but for now, let's concentrate on the DOW.
So, the DOW had already made a 150 odd gain and I got home wanting to grab some profits. The trend is up on the DOW so we're looking for long trades when the market retraces. The retraced happened off 10390 back down to 10350 and I had entered my trade a little early at 10360 where
July 13, 2010
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As you can see from teh chart, there has bene quite a long consolidation channel.. it's almost been 4 days since the market has been bouncing around 15200 and 15080.
I had two lines, 15209 and 15083 and was looking to take a position if the market went beyond this range.
The market did indeed break above my upper line and I went short with a stop at the bottom of the line, 15083 and a 100 pip limit. However, the immediate short term top was 15220 or so before the market fell.. it's current
July 6, 2010
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![Trading and the Non Farm Payroll Economic News]()
Today at 1.30pm GMT time the Non Farm Payroll economic news hits the markets and usually you would expect some volatility in these markets. Big ticket news items like this can completely mess up your trading system so it's best to avoid it. I didn't trade today but if I had done.. I would have lost.
Although there was movement it was choppy and was just moving up and down with no clear direction....
(You can see some movement when the new release is announced)
There are some people
July 2, 2010
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