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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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I felt that I had to put this chart which shows that the GBPJPY did indeed reach the target I mentioned at 15645 and then promptly fell (note the stochastic move below 80)... this should have been my trade if I had followed the rules... it would have been a lovely 95 pips in the bag... this chart will remind me of the missed opportunity and the reason why one needs to stick to the gameplan...
As I write, the GBPJPY price is at 15620.. it bounced perfectly off 15645...
June 4, 2009
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I have been quite careful of late and this has benefitted my trades.. I have found that the best trades are those which are 'boring'. When I say boring I mean that they do not give me the excitement which I experienced before... I just put them on and wait patiently. Sometimes I am not patient and end up closing them too early.
Anyway, one of the terms I have heard before is 'bottom pickers get smelly fingers' referring to those who try and time bottom of markets and this also corresponds to
November 11, 2008
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