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I forgot that the US markets are not open today due to Independence so perhaps it probably wasn't a good day to trade. Oops!
Anyway, I shorted the GBPUSD at 15120 as it moved below the support line. It dropped 15 pips... I've got a 80 pip stop and a 75 pip target on this. However, it's currently retracing and that's the thing on holidays. Low volume means that it takes less to move the market and could also mean that some traders go stop hunting... that's moving the prices around to take out
July 5, 2010
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Today, the range bars was rather narrow... just 30 pip range which is tiny...
The upper range line was 14737 and the lower bar was 14707
The market did break towards the upside triggering the long.. however, the target was 14767 but the highest it reached was 14759 before it collapse. This meant a 30 pip loss. However, the short which followed was good netting 30 pips resulting in a stratch trade day.
I have decided that I need to be disciplined and this involves trading the system tire
June 11, 2010
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As I mentioned in previous posts about the breakout system that I had been trading and losing faith in it. I have to distinguish between them as they are both breakout systems.. I'll call them the 4 - 7 trading system and the 9 to 9 breakout system to signify the time range for drawing the upper and lower lines.
So, I'm talking about the 4 - 7 trading system. As previously mentioned, I was losing faith in the system and didn't trade it yesterday. This proved to be a mistake as the system did
June 10, 2010
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