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Daytrading the DOW

Daytrading the DOW

So, I'm back again on the DOW to see if I can get some more profits from it..  I grabbed a few profits yesterday and thought I'd give it a go today. In the past, I have found that the DOW is extremely volatile and difficult to trade. However, if I can try and trade it only when there is a break of some sort and ride it as far as until it looks like it's hit something. So today, I was waiting for a break of 10400 which it did. I went short and for a few minutes it went above my entry point..

June 22, 2010 No Comments Full Story

GBPUSD – all in a days trading (or not)

GBPUSD - all in a days trading (or not)

Today I woke up early and was rather more alert than usual. This is not a good thing necessarily when it comes to trading.. certainly not in my case. I saw that the market had consolidated from yesterday after shooting up strongly. A consolidation usually happens after any particularly large moves so rather normal.. however, the market could have easily topped here or just biding time before heading higher. I wanted to play it safe so I didn't trade... The 4-to-7 trading system's range was 14

June 15, 2010 No Comments Full Story

Beauty trade on the 9-to-9 GBPUSD trading system

Beauty trade on the 9-to-9 GBPUSD trading system

On Friday 11th (sorry, posting this a bit late), I traded the 9-to-9 trading system on the GBPUSD. For those who haven't been following, it's trading the breakout of the highest and lowest points between 9pm and 9am GMT time. The timing on my chart says 5am but that's because I am using a US broker and it's not clever enough to work out where I actually am.. it's a minor detail. Anyway, the top of the range was 14757 and the lower, 14651. The range is just over 100 pips so can be done. I h

June 14, 2010 No Comments Full Story

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