Posts Tagged usd/jpy
I went long the USDJPY at 9796 as it seemed to have moved beyond the short term negative bias. You can see the trendlines I have drawn in. However, the GBPJPY and EURJPY have really shot ahead.. I am just about 10 pips up but if I had made the trend with the GBPJPY or EURJPY, it would be up by 50 and 40 pips respectly. It means I chose the weakest of the Yen pairs but also the less volatile. The profit potential for the first leg up isn't great, just 25 pips at around 9822 but there you are..
April 23, 2009
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I had placed a short for the USDJPY Forex pair two evenings ago at 98.24 with a stop at 99.16 and a target of 96.74. The 4 hour charts look as though they had run out of momentum on the uptrend which corresponded to similar looking peaks the over the past few weeks. My stop was place in light of the recent peak around the 9th of March and the target was a level where there was support found on the 6th March. There was not much movement for a day or so and when the market moved upwards, I was exp
March 19, 2009
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Last night the USDJPY charts made a double top pattern and I promptly sold. The odds seemed favourable so I got in at 98.20 with a 50 pip stoploss and 50 pip target
I shorted it as it came away from it's second peak.. I was a little cautious as the market had been in a long uptrend but the chances I felt going my way were favourable so I went for it.. unfortunately, my stop got hit earlier today.
March 4, 2009
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