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How I select which Pinbars to Trade

How I select which Pinbars to Trade

A lot of my trades have been off pinbars. Pinbars are great in that they show where there was some strong buying or selling. This gives you a clue as to what may happen next so it could potentially be a good place to place a trade in the direction of the pinbar and a stop underneath the wick. I’m writing in the context of bullish pinbars here but the same is true for bearish pinbars. All my trades with pinbars are off the Daily charts.. I don’t trade the intraday timeframes as I want more t

October 19, 2013 1 Comment Full Story

Going Long USDCHF

Going Long USDCHF

I just went long on the USDCHF pair...  if you click on the picture above, you can see it more clearly. The price has now hit a support line which was a strong base at the beginning of the year. The price had hit this year on a couple of occasions and it's worth a punt! The negative aspects of the trade is that the price is looking a tad weak and we have gone long as the market is trending lower so we are indeed trading this as a countertrend play. However, the risk is low.. 30 pips w

September 23, 2013 No Comments Full Story

Scared out of the trade which would have brought in big Profits

Scared out of the trade which would have brought in big Profits

This is going back a while now but a trade that I had put on the 5th August - those following my Twitter feed would have seen this. I went long AUDUSD after seeing a pinbar as you can see from the pic below..  the next day it went up and the following day, you can see that there was some retracement. In the Daily chart, it looks fine but if you actually saw what happened that day, you would have gotten spooked which is what happened to me. I saw that I was 70 points up at one stage and then

August 14, 2013 No Comments Full Story

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