Posts Tagged trading mistakes
The graph today looks like a simple and straightforward set up... the upper barrier is 15288 and the lower band 15236. The market broke towards the downside and one would have claimed some nice and easy profit.. this is the trading system that I should be trading... however, I lost today!!
The biggest problem here was that I did not follow my trading system... to be a good trader, one needs to be disciplined and follow his or her system... I'd been talking about this and yet, I didn't follo
April 28, 2010
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The chart is a 5 minute chart of the GBPUSD. I had woken up later today than usual to see that the market had moved. The two horizontal lines show where the long and short entry should have been but as I was late and saw that the market had already moved 25 points away and that I was feeling that I missed out on the short.. I entered a short manually... whilst it did move 30 pips in my direction which would have usually been bagged.. for some reason, my brain wanted more (I had a target of 100
April 16, 2010
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I felt that I had to put this chart which shows that the GBPJPY did indeed reach the target I mentioned at 15645 and then promptly fell (note the stochastic move below 80)... this should have been my trade if I had followed the rules... it would have been a lovely 95 pips in the bag... this chart will remind me of the missed opportunity and the reason why one needs to stick to the gameplan...
As I write, the GBPJPY price is at 15620.. it bounced perfectly off 15645...
June 4, 2009
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