Archive for July, 2011
The below is the daily chart of the DOW and that it had made a double top formation a few days back. Following this, the market started going lower and yesterday I was looking for a break at the previous low as indicated. This happened and I had a short at 12460
The market fell and was looking to fall soon but after a major break, I was expected a retracement to happen far later than it did and I ended closing on the retracement for 40 points only for the market to fall further in the US
July 28, 2011
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I had spotted that the Dow Jones had made a double top and I shorted it as it retraced and headed downwards at 12720. At this time I was thinking that this could be a nice longer term trade as I anticipated seeing the Dow decline over the coming weeks and possibly months.
I knew that there was support at the 12650 level and if it were a daytrade, this would have been a good place to take profits and take 70 points.. not a bad days work. However, when it bounced, and started to eat into my pro
July 22, 2011
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There seems to be a trade every couple of days so far with the DDFX system and I took two more over the last couple of days with the EURUSD pair. I got stopped out for my last trade on EURJPY for a 40 pip loss and thought perhaps EURJPY was not a good pair to trade using DDFX, time will tell.
Anyway, there was the entry on the 18th where I went long after seeing two arrows and the trene bars were all pointing towards a move higher so I entered. However, I got stopped out for a 34 pop loss
July 21, 2011
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