Posts Tagged trading psychology
Today was another losing day which was extremely frustrating.. the short trade triggered first and then went straight up to hit the stop and then the buy trigger which immediately reversed to hit my stop... the total loss was 80 pips. If you look at the chart, however, you can see that I lost out just by a few pips. The trade today should have been the short which fell nicely a good 100+ pips.
The trading system has suddenly taken a turn for the worst and I'm considering what to do about it.
June 8, 2010
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The graph today looks like a simple and straightforward set up... the upper barrier is 15288 and the lower band 15236. The market broke towards the downside and one would have claimed some nice and easy profit.. this is the trading system that I should be trading... however, I lost today!!
The biggest problem here was that I did not follow my trading system... to be a good trader, one needs to be disciplined and follow his or her system... I'd been talking about this and yet, I didn't follo
April 28, 2010
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Today when I had checked the markets, the GBPUSD had already moved up quite significantly.. this made my channel rather wide at 55 pips or so. I'm always conscious when the market has moved away like this as it should pullback before it makes another ascent. However, the market looked like it was heading upwards so when the market started to pullback, I entered long with a 30 pip stop and a 30 pip limit.
My entry was at 1.5453, stop at 1.5423 and target 1.5483. The pullback was deeper than
April 26, 2010
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