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The GBPJPY trade. I went long GBPJPY the other day and initially, we got a great move.. up 50 pips. I expected the movement to go up much more and 50 pips is a relatively small move in the GBPJPY market. In the afternoon, the price action stalled and fell and then bounced. I felt that the price action wasn’t clean and as a result I closed off the trade with an approx 50 pip loss as I anticipated uncertainty.
This morning, there were further falls and I felt great that I had got out of t
March 20, 2013
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Last week we made two trades.
The first one we took 120 points on the Crude Oil long and the second trade Long Silver. Because of the profits from the Crude Oil trade, I felt comfortable giving the silver trade more room for a chance of a greater move. Unfortunately, the trade ended up as a scratch trade (even though it was in profit at one stage). I found that by having a profit already in the bag, it gives you the buffer to be able to give following trades a bit more room. Even a smal
March 20, 2013
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[caption id="attachment_7658" align="alignnone" width="601"] 16th January - Silver Long[/caption]
I've found that it is always difficult psychology wise to trade as well as you should if you start with a losing trade. Our Gold trade earlier in the week had left us with a 120 point deficit.
Trading Silver is a bit like trading gold as they move in tandem with each other, it's not often that you'll see them diverge. Anyway, I went long Silver on Wednesday after see a positive pin bar.. it sh
January 19, 2013
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