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Today, we saw massive moves on the Yen pairs. USDJPY had gone up around 250 pips and the GBPJPY around 600!!
On the 2nd of April, I had put on a long for the USDJPY pair after it had bounce off support. I saw that the longer term trend was up but the market was going through a retracement.. I thought that this was an opportunity to go long so I did. I set my stop at 100 pips which was below the previous low and a target of 100 pips also for a 1:1 risk reward trade.
As you can see from the
April 4, 2013
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This week we had two trades.. AUDUSD long and EURJPY long. I'll go through both of these and why I entered.
Firstly AUDUSD
[caption id="attachment_7671" align="alignnone" width="580"] Long AUDUSD[/caption]
I went long here as the market had found a base.. it had retraced after a move up and I thought it would actually move above the previous resistance point at around 10600 and if it did, a huge move above. The following day, the market indeed shot up and if I was cautious and doing my
January 27, 2013
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I got my 90 pips from the trade last night. As you know from my previous post, I had entered the market at 1.2370 with a stop at 1.2460 and looking at a 1:1 risk to reward trade which meant a limit order at 1.2280.. ie a 90 pip stop with a 90 pip target.
The two spinning tops were the key here showing that there was selling at the levels, that coupled with the downtrend movement made me feel it was a good short play and I got rewarded.
So, a decent start to my trading again after all t
August 9, 2012
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