Posts Tagged uptrend

Why I’m Long Crude Oil

Why I'm Long Crude Oil

I'm making some changes on the blog...  I'll post live updates on my Twitter feed, for those who would like to follow, the address is http://www.twitter.com/makemoneyalan and then I'll post afterthoughts on the blog to talk about why I entered the trade and analysis. So for those that did follow my Twitter account, you would have read that I went long on the Crude Oil (January) contract at a price of 8769 on the 21st November, taking my entry from the Daily chart which looks like this:

November 24, 2012 No Comments Full Story

Silver showing Higher Lows – Start of an Uptrend?

Silver showing Higher Lows - Start of an Uptrend?

The markets have been very difficult to trade of late... there seem to be many fake signals so it's important to only trade the markets which are showing the most clean looking signals. Anyway, something which looks interesting is Silver. The market has been in a downtrend for a while now but looking at the daily charts, we can see that it's now forming higher lows which is reminiscent of an uptrend... there were no higher highs however but there was a resistance area but this broke last

June 11, 2012 No Comments Full Story

Trading – Back to Basics

Trading - Back to Basics

There are many times in a traders career where he or she will get to a point where they realise that they are using all sorts of complex and elaborate systems to get in and out of trades only to find that nothing is working or that it takes too much time and effort to do all the analysis. Having too much knowledge and expertise is not necessarily a good thing in trading, one can get something called 'analysis paralysis' where you just confuse yourself with all the knowledge you have and end up d

November 7, 2011 No Comments Full Story