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Well, it had to happen I suppose... I don't know anyone who goes and has a winning day every day....
I had closed two trades today with a loss.. firstly a short of the USDJPY Forex pair.. it looked as though it was breaking down and I had actually entered short yesterday around 4pm. The market dwindled for a few hours in the early hours of the morning before it started it's rise and hit my stop at 8040 for a 25 point loss.
My next trade was a little bit disappointing on my part.. I h
June 14, 2011
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The pivots today were all very significant in trading today.. if you look at the blue pivot line in the charts below for all trade instruments (GBPUSD, EURUSD and FTSE), you can see how the price action reacted to the pivot line.
With the GBPUSD chart you can see how the market bouced off the pivot line at around 8am... shortly after this I went long which wasn't a good trade as I ended up with -20 as the market went down. However, on hitting the pivot again, you could see that it provided no
May 5, 2011
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I had a really nice short in the GBPUSD market today with a trailing stop. I closed out early for 56 pips however when the market was retracing.. it retraced 25 points before it fell heavily (another 50 points) to 16500.
My actual exit is a trailing stop loss and it would have not hit it before it fell. The old trading adage 'cut your profits short and let your profits run' is a key principle to be successful in trading and I'm annoyed by myself that I broke the rule.
The chart is shown be
May 3, 2011
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