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Today was a very interesting day in terms of my trading psychology. I was able to see where I went wrong and also analyse my trading psychology and where I went wrong.
I mentioned in a previous article about the importance of where to put my stop and one thing that I did well today was that. My stop was below the previous low and therefore support at 8847 (which is a little bit below the actual support at 8860 to take into account the stop hunters and spreads).
The trade didn't really get
September 8, 2011
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I wanted to put this post up to remind myself of a lesson which I seem to have forgotten and cost me today and that is... "ensuring that your stop is in the right place"
To be honest, I got a bit lazy and have been putting stops with my orders with no real analysis as to where they should be. I know some people and some of the systems that I use do have a fixed stop limits but this way of trading for me involves putting in stops in the correct place.
A stop is your 'yes, I am definately wr
August 30, 2011
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With the stock markets looking weak, Oil is said to follow. I had entered a short on a previous day low and also under the round number at 9100. My order was 9090 and it got hit. However, soon after this the market went up and it wasn't even certain as to whether this trade would go the right way. With breakout trades, I should have perhaps saw that this wasn't going anywhere and closed out before my stop was hit. However, the market moved 20 points above my stop before it did stop and reversed
August 4, 2011
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