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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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I followed the rules to a tee today.. however, I'd realised that I am supposed to set the range between the highest and lowest values between 4am and 7am UK time. I'd been waking up at 6.20 am every day and putting the range between 4am and 6.30am. It probably doesn't make much different unless the market moves significantly..
The markets broke above my level.. however they plummetted and took me out for almost a 50 pip loss... not a good trading day (despite following the rules today).. oh w
April 22, 2010
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Today was particulary annoying... I had only set up one trade to go for 60 pips with the stop loss move to entry when it moves 30 pips in the desired direction..... except that I didn't move the stop loss. I also did do my usual 30 pip trade!
Now, I must tell you that over the weekend, we had a system crash in my normal 9-to-5 job... this result in us working the whole weekend... I'd had very little sleep and in hindsight, when fatigued you need to be careful trading.. simple mistakes can
April 19, 2010
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