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Some trading opportunities on the DOW

Some trading opportunities on the DOW

I have my day off today and I wanted to watch the markets and not be desperate to trade. A problem is that when I come home from work and find that the markets have moved a lot with a lot of profit left on the table, I feel that I missed a fantastic opportunity and feel that I need to do something to get some of the profits..  as a result, I fire off trades from my trading platform even though there is no real reason to.. this amounts to losses and then frustration. However, today, I entered

August 22, 2008 No Comments Full Story

Shorting the GBPJPY… from all to nothing!

Shorting the GBPJPY... from all to nothing!

Last night I saw an opportunity to short the GBPJPY currency pair and I entered at 205.20 with a 200 point target and a 100 point stop order. In the back of my mind, I know that I need to leave these trades running, there have been many occasions where I have closed for 100 to find that the market has moved 500 my way or more! Anyway, I set this trade in motion and went to bed... I woke up to find that the market had moved and throughout the day, went lower... the lowest was 204.00 which was

August 19, 2008 No Comments Full Story

Trading or Gambling?

Trading or Gambling?

Unfortunately my trading goes from bad to worse.. I feel quite demoralised and I am not even looking at the charts properly and analysing before putting on trades. I just turn on the charting platform and put on the trades and lose. In fact, if I did the complete opposite to what I am currently doing I probably could do well!!! Right now, when I buy, the markets go down, when I sell, they go up! It seems that the markets know exactly what I want to do and just to the opposite to cause as much pa

August 13, 2008 1 Comment Full Story

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