Archive for May 3rd, 2011

What is this blog about?

What is this blog about?

I found a brilliant little tool that scans your website and figures out what it's all about from the words are frequently used and draws a nice little graphic. So if anyone now asks me what my blog is about, I'll just show them the below picture:

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56 points on GBPUSD but left another 50 on the table!

56 points on GBPUSD but left another 50 on the table!

I had a really nice short in the GBPUSD market today with a trailing stop. I closed out early for 56 pips however when the market was retracing.. it retraced 25 points before it fell heavily (another 50 points) to 16500. My actual exit is a trailing stop loss and it would have not hit it before it fell. The old trading adage 'cut your profits short and let your profits run' is a key principle to be successful in trading and I'm annoyed by myself that I broke the rule. The chart is shown be

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FTSE and Pivot Lines

FTSE and Pivot Lines

Welcome back to normal markets again.. I'm glad that the holidays are over and that the markets are open for business again. I have enjoyed the Betfair trading which to me seems far easier to make a profit than financial trading so I'll need to assess and look into it further. Anyway, back to business, something which I've been watching of late is how the market responds to pivot lines. Today the FTSE price hit the pivot line 6101 and also being the round number at 6100 provided a huge amount

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