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The below is the daily chart of the DOW and that it had made a double top formation a few days back. Following this, the market started going lower and yesterday I was looking for a break at the previous low as indicated. This happened and I had a short at 12460
The market fell and was looking to fall soon but after a major break, I was expected a retracement to happen far later than it did and I ended closing on the retracement for 40 points only for the market to fall further in the US
July 28, 2011
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We've seen the DOW propped by up support around 12400 for all of last week and when it broke today I had a short at 12360 which was trigger. It was looking well and at one point I was already 60 points up. Now the markets always seems to find support at big numbers so at 12300 it bounced.
I expected this but with a nice clean break to the downside, I didn't think it would bounce that high. I had an initial 80 point stop which I moved down to entry when the market hit 12300 but then hit exactl
July 18, 2011
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One of the reasons why I post my entries and exits is because it doubles up as my trading log of what I'm doing. I can learn from my mistakes (hopefully) and this should in the long term make me a better trader.
Today I got some good entries but I didn't follow my gameplan which would have left me still in the trades. This was for both the below trades GBPUSD and GBPJPY.
I had entered both short. The GBPUSD I entered on Friday morning and I didn't feel completely confortable with it as Fri
July 18, 2011
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