Archive for January, 2013

The Gold Trade that went wrong earlier this week

The Gold Trade that went wrong earlier this week

[caption id="attachment_7654" align="alignnone" width="601"] 14th January 2013 - Gold Trade[/caption] Earlier this week we sold Gold (those that followed my Tweets would have got this info in realtime). The reason for this was for a couple of reasons.. the underlying trend in the Daily charts as you can see had been down and there was a marked resistance line. One the day that I had shorted this, I could see that the price action had reacted to this line and was starting to move lower. Of cou

January 19, 2013 No Comments Full Story

Expect the Unexpected when Trading the Financial Markets

Expect the Unexpected when Trading the Financial Markets

A couple of days ago, I had shorted the EURUSD forex pair at the point marked above. The price action looked as though it was just retracing before a further fall. I was thinking that a move below 13000 would trigger a flurry and sell trades and the market will drop a few hundred points. I was a little wary as the downward momentum after I had gone short wasn't really there so I had been moving my stop down as the price action moved down. Today, the market open a little lower but momentum

January 10, 2013 No Comments Full Story

EURO analysis post my Trade of last week

EURO analysis post my Trade of last week

I thought I'd post my trade of last week and also talk about what has happened over the last couple of days with the Euro market. It's important to review looking back to help formulate future plans when trading.. it is something which one needs to do all the time to ensure that you're on top of your trading. Anyway, my initial plan was to hold onto the trade for as long as possible and bring the stop loss down to the high of each day. This would then help lock in profits and give enough roo

January 7, 2013 No Comments Full Story

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