Archive for July 18th, 2011

DOW crashes through previous lows.. it’s going down!

DOW crashes through previous lows..  it's going down!

We've seen the DOW propped by up support around 12400 for all of last week and when it broke today I had a short at 12360 which was trigger. It was looking well and at one point I was already 60 points up. Now the markets always seems to find support at big numbers so at 12300 it bounced. I expected this but with a nice clean break to the downside, I didn't think it would bounce that high. I had an initial 80 point stop which I moved down to entry when the market hit 12300 but then hit exactl

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Money on the Table – GBPUSD and GBPJPY trading – 18th July 2011

Money on the Table - GBPUSD and GBPJPY trading - 18th July 2011

One of the reasons why I post my entries and exits is because it doubles up as my trading log of what I'm doing. I can learn from my mistakes (hopefully) and this should in the long term make me a better trader. Today I got some good entries but I didn't follow my gameplan which would have left me still in the trades. This was for both the below trades GBPUSD and GBPJPY. I had entered both short. The GBPUSD I entered on Friday morning and I didn't feel completely confortable with it as Fri

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