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The Frustration of not sticking to your Gameplan in Trading

The Frustration of not sticking to your Gameplan in Trading

Today was one of those days where I had a fabulous trade but didn't stick to the plan. I had looked at the market and had put in an order to sell with a stop and a limit order and then that should have been it, I should have left it. Here's what happened..   This was the DOW and I saw weakness in the market and had set an order to sell at 12120 which was a break below short term support. I had a target at 11940 which would have been a 180 target. However, I couldn't help myself

October 31, 2011 No Comments Full Story

Another winning day trading the GBPUSD currency pair

Another winning day trading the GBPUSD currency pair

First day back after the Bank Holiday and back to trading the system. There was a largish 50 pip channel which always makes me feel a little uncomfortable placing the orders. The market also moved quite a bit just before 7am reaching which also makes me feel a little uncomfortable. However, trading a system means that I need to remain disciplined to pull the trigger.. even if I feel uncomfortable, this is the system.. I need to follow it to stand a chance of becoming successful. So the orders

May 4, 2010 No Comments Full Story

All the trading rules broken!!

All the trading rules broken!!

I haven't been trading enough this week so I was eager to get stuck in today. My first trade was a short at 12922... the market had already come off a 50% Fib level and I was thinking that it had further to go. I had missed the move as it fell (as I had only got in at 6.30pm GMT)..  I quickly opened the short but didn't check to see that the stochastics had almost reached the oversold level. This was frustrating as I sold right at the bottom. The market went up and hit my stop for -18!! A

May 16, 2008 1 Comment Full Story

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