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Followed the rules today – lost out though – GBPUSD trading

Followed the rules today - lost out though - GBPUSD trading

I followed the rules to a tee today.. however, I'd realised that I am supposed to set the range between the highest and lowest values between 4am and 7am UK time. I'd been waking up at 6.20 am every day and putting the range between 4am and 6.30am. It probably doesn't make much different unless the market moves significantly.. The markets broke above my level.. however they plummetted and took me out for almost a 50 pip loss... not a good trading day (despite following the rules today).. oh w

April 22, 2010 No Comments Full Story

Trading the GBPUSD – stupid day for mistakes

Trading the GBPUSD - stupid day for mistakes

Today was particulary annoying...  I had only set up one trade to go for 60 pips with the stop loss move to entry when it moves 30 pips in the desired direction..... except that I didn't move the stop loss. I also did do my usual 30 pip trade! Now, I must tell you that over the weekend, we had a system crash in my normal 9-to-5 job... this result in us working the whole weekend... I'd had very little sleep and in hindsight, when fatigued you need to be careful trading..  simple mistakes can

April 19, 2010 No Comments Full Story

Dont go chasing the market – GBPUSD got burnt

Dont go chasing the market - GBPUSD got burnt

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 No Comments Full Story

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