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![The Fake DOW triple top]()
Wow, the DOW really made a significant move today... it shot up and by the time I got home, I had missed all the action.
However, the market had consolidated around the 10350 level. The market had made such a tremendous move that I couldn't see it moving much higher. Hence my short, I saw a triple top form around 10350 in the 5 minute charts and sold at 10340 with a 20 point stop. However, it proved to be a fake and stopped me out.. it just broke and made a high for the day and then moved bac
July 22, 2010
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![The original breakout system and trading it...GBPUSD forex trading]()
As I mentioned in previous posts about the breakout system that I had been trading and losing faith in it. I have to distinguish between them as they are both breakout systems.. I'll call them the 4 - 7 trading system and the 9 to 9 breakout system to signify the time range for drawing the upper and lower lines.
So, I'm talking about the 4 - 7 trading system. As previously mentioned, I was losing faith in the system and didn't trade it yesterday. This proved to be a mistake as the system did
June 10, 2010
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Today was another losing day which was extremely frustrating.. the short trade triggered first and then went straight up to hit the stop and then the buy trigger which immediately reversed to hit my stop... the total loss was 80 pips. If you look at the chart, however, you can see that I lost out just by a few pips. The trade today should have been the short which fell nicely a good 100+ pips.
The trading system has suddenly taken a turn for the worst and I'm considering what to do about it.
June 8, 2010
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