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How I just grabbed a small fraction of the 300+ points on the Stock Market crash today

How I just grabbed a small fraction of the 300+ points on the Stock Market crash today

So it was an Obama victory and the Dow Jones fell over 300 points!! It was spectacular fall and a mass of profits to be made for those short. I actually had the perfect entry on this trade. I was short from 13230, near the close of yesterday candle. The market was in a downtrend on the Daily chart and you can see that the price had reject the 13300 level 3 times already and formed a resistance level. The thing about trading technical signals is that I don't really care about what's happeni

November 7, 2012 1 Comment Full Story

Time to go long on the DOW?

Time to go long on the DOW?

I went long on the DOW the other day, see the daily chart of the Dow below... it had hit support and the second time it did so, there was a pin bar pattern indicating strength with the buyers. The second day, you can see continued strength but today, there has been some selling. I went long at the break of the nose of the pin bar and my stop is 5 pips under the bottom of the pin. The trend is down however but this is a reversal play. It is risky considering how weak the market is but this could

May 25, 2012 No Comments Full Story

Monster Rally on the GBPUSD

Monster Rally on the GBPUSD

The GBPUSD really powered ahead today..  I was trading my 4-to-7 breakout strategy and got my 30 pips. It seems pathetic when the market powered on another 170 pips or so.. still, a profit is a profit! The range was 14632 and 14597. I didn't trade the 9-to-9 however. If the range is over 120 pips or so, the movement has already been too large for the day. Also, I can't scale my trade to be small enough so that the hefty pip stop loss is a mere 5% of my trading account. The top

June 14, 2010 No Comments Full Story

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