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AUDNZD – short at 12499

AUDNZD - short at 12499

I shorted AUDNZD yesterday after seeing the stochastic cross at 12499. I have always been wary of not allowing my trades to run to completion so I left it running for as long as I could. The market did bottom out to 12435 (god knows why my trailing stop didn't activate which is rather annoying) and now it have moved back. The stochastics have cross the other way and the trend indicator has turned blue... I have close my trade for a measly +15. When it bottomed, I was sitting on 65 odd points.

June 18, 2008 No Comments Full Story

Simon Grinter’s Weekly Breakout trade

Simon Grinter's Weekly Breakout trade

I mentioned that I went on Simon Grinter's Forex seminar not so long ago... well, finally, I got a chance to put on his 'weekly breakout' trade. I put in an order to go long at 211.05 with a 100 pip limit and stop and waited.... I woke up this morning to find that my trade had been triggered and that I was already 20 pips up. By the time I got to work, my trade was about 70 pips up. There was some resistance around 212.00 so I took profit when it eased off (you never know, it may tank from he

June 16, 2008 No Comments Full Story

GBPUSD.. stopped out, would have been a great trade!

GBPUSD.. stopped out, would have been a great trade!

I went long GBPUSD at 1.9555 with my usual 50 pip trailing stop. Unfortunately for me, it spiked down, took out my stop and then continued on it's merry way topping 1.9670 at one stage which is over 100 pips away. These things are frustrating but they happen. Oh well, I took a 50 pip loss.

June 11, 2008 No Comments Full Story

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