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Following on from my article on the pinbars to trade, i thought it would be a useful to identify some pinbars which are not good to trade. Hopefully between that article and this one, you’ll get a better idea of what is defined as a good one to trade and what is a bad one and hence avoid.
Pinbar against a strong trend (unless its a Massive Move Pinbar - see http://www.makemesomemoney.co.uk/select-pinbars-trade/)
Sometimes you see a 1 day reversal in an underlying trend.. quite often this is
October 22, 2013
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Pinbars are usually great indicators showing strong buyers or sellers in the market. Typically, you would follow the strong participants in the markets as there is a greater chance of the price going your way if you follow them.
However, this wasn't the case for the GBPUSD forex pair on Friday. I actually placed a long on the Thursday seeing the pinbar. Now, it was a countertrend trade which is more risky and the day before, we did get a very strong sell bar. However, the pinbar as you can s
June 22, 2013
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The below chart shows what happened to the Euro (or EURUSD) forex pair on Friday.. the price action had plumetted shortly after the pin bar (as highlighted in blue).
I was actually a day late with this trade but the price was pretty much as the same level of the close of the Wednesday bar so I shorted it. My initial target was the previous support level 12885.
You can see that the price hit that yielding me 50 pips but it also continued to fall.. there was another 50 pips in the move.
November 4, 2012
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