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For those who read yesterdays post where I had missed out on a nice 55 pip profit on the EURUSD as my system had not identified the exit went to hit the stop target which meant a 28 pip loss overall is rather annoying. This actually means that your account, if you take a nominal starting account of 100 for example, was 155 if I had closed when I thought I should have closed to 72 after the stop was hit. You can see that this means that in fact, I lost an overall of 55 + 28 = 83 pips which is a l
June 15, 2011
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This was me today... I put in an order for a buy on the GBPUSD at 16018 or a sell at 15956 with a 20 pip stop and a 40 pip target.
As you can see from the chart, the GBPUSD shoots up and actually goes beyond the 50 pips...
However, I made no money on this trade at all. At first I got really annoyed, an easy 40 pips in the bag and my broker has screwed me over.
I checked my emails and can see that the order was being placed, however, I had forgotten to fund the account properly and t
November 10, 2010
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Today, I'm sad to say that I didn't listen to my instinct when it came to trading. I was being too clever and thinking about what the market was doing.
Look at the chart below. The market had hit the pivot point the first time and retraced. It then moved upwards and this was the time where I got back home and look at the market... it had retraced off the pivot and some strong movement up again towards it. I was a littl reluctant to put on the long as the pivot point was so close again when I
July 20, 2010
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