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Scared out of the trade which would have brought in big Profits

Scared out of the trade which would have brought in big Profits

This is going back a while now but a trade that I had put on the 5th August - those following my Twitter feed would have seen this. I went long AUDUSD after seeing a pinbar as you can see from the pic below..  the next day it went up and the following day, you can see that there was some retracement. In the Daily chart, it looks fine but if you actually saw what happened that day, you would have gotten spooked which is what happened to me. I saw that I was 70 points up at one stage and then

August 14, 2013 No Comments Full Story

50 points on the DOW

50 points on the DOW

Well I took 50 points off the DOW today. I think it has much further to go and it already has moved 30 points beyond where I took profits but hey ho! There was some support at 14900 and you tend to get some support at these numbers so I figure it would be good to take some profit. Looking at this daily chart though, it does look like it has further to go down. Still, I also put on a binary bet that the DOW would go down today. Unless the market can get above 14975, I should have a nice

July 2, 2013 No Comments Full Story

Snatching profits from Trading the Aussie (AUDUSD)

Snatching profits from Trading the Aussie (AUDUSD)

Trading the Aussie, that's the AUDUSD forex pair last week I saw a double bottom (as per blue horizontal line). The price action was quite strong but the underlying trend was Short so once again, like the GBPUSD trade earlier, a countertrend play. I went long at the close of the pinbar at 10296 and watched to see what would happen the following day. Price did indeed go up but hit resistance on the moving average line. I got out at 10328 (not bad as the high of the day was actually 10340,

February 24, 2013 No Comments Full Story

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