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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
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I was doing pretty well of late but my trading seems to have suffered a turn for the worse of late. I know that I am entering trades when I shouldn't be.. they are like gambles. My short of the GBPUSD at 16263 was premature. The trend was clearly upwards but I was seeing a slowdown in the rate of progress the market was heading upwards.. it has powered uphill rather rapidly and I was expecting the market to subsequently move down before a continue journey upwards. Countertrend trading as this is
June 9, 2009
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I have had 8 winning trades in a row and I'm starting to get a little nervous. Generally I know that I am about 60% correct so a loss is due at some stage.... each time I am trading I am aware of this and this makes me a little nervous. Anyway, I went long the GBPJPY at 14581 when it breached the downward trend (as indicated in the chart below). My stop was at 14545 and my first target was 14620.
The market shot up and I got nervous... it shot up too quickly and with a surge like this, I expe
April 30, 2009
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