Archive for April, 2013

Shorting Gold after the Big Fall

Shorting Gold after the Big Fall

If you've been reading any financial papers, you would have noticed that the big news was Gold and it's biggest ever fall when it went from 1540 to 1340.. 2000 points in just two days! The move certainly got a lot of people startled but it's since recovered half already. Anyway, I felt that Gold was due a move down again after the big fall and a retracement and was looking for a short entry. I took the first sign of some weakness as a point to enter and this was 1420 as you can see from the c

April 25, 2013 No Comments Full Story

Crude Oil Trade left without me

Crude Oil Trade left without me

Last night, I had put on an order to buy Crude Oil at 88.50. There was a nice bullish pinbar and I thought that we would see a retracement before a further move up since the bar was already so bullish (strong moves usually mean a pullback somewhere before further moves). The price action was strong and it didn't retrace at all and moved a further 200 points up. Unfortunately for me, it meant that my buy order wasn't trigger and I missed the action.  

April 24, 2013 No Comments Full Story

Stopped out on Euro trade

Stopped out on Euro trade

Today we got stopped out on our Euro trade..  if you look at the chart yesterday evening, you can see that there was a bullish bar.. it wasn't quite a pin but you can see that there was buying where the price had hit the 20 day MA line. At that time, it looked like a good place to go long and so I did! However, as you can see with today's price action, the market pretty much went into freefall and invalidated our entry and stopped out our trade.  We lost 60 pips!

April 23, 2013 No Comments Full Story

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