Unfortunately the markets were not nice to me. There was a nice bullish pin bar which had form and I took it in my liberty to go long. However, it failed me and took out my stop (the blue line) for a 200 point loss. Oh well, nothing else to say about it!
I shorted Oil (WTI Crude) last week and unfortunately the trade went against me and I lost 200 points. Unfortunately, in trading this happens but over the long term I expect that I will win more trades that I lose so it doesn't bother me too much. Anyway, here's the reasoning behind the trade. If you look at the weekly trade, you would see that the 10600 level actually was a strong support and resistance line in the past. Where I have green arrows you can see how the price had reacted
The other trade which I had tweeted out last week was my long Crude Oil trade. Once again, you can see that there was a strong bullish pin bar showing that the buyers were in force. As a Daily chart trader, I entered my trade on the close of the pinbar (ie right at the top of it). The market over the next few days then sank and didn't look very well. In fact, the price action sank as soon as I went long and price dwindled pretty much at the base of the pin at the 9500 level. I pretty much lo
