I was reading other trader blogs and I agree with Mr One Bad-Ass Trader who says that you can improve your trading by looking watching trading videos. You can see the post if you follow as below: http://onebadtrade.blogspot.com/2007/11/improve-your-trading-by-watching.html In addition, a few days ago I posted a link to listen to interviews of successful traders... here it is again http://www.traderinterviews.com/
Here's a profile for some of the top traders under 30 years of age http://www.traderdaily.co.uk/magazine/article/9872.html Darn.. I'm over 30 now so I'll never make this list! :)
Ok, first trade was a long at 148550 as the market breached the previous swing high, this was initially profitable as you can see in the chart but I had my hopes on a higher target at 148925. Unfortunately, the market made a high at around 148750 or so before it tanked taking out my stop loss. If I had got out, I would have taken around 9 prices here. Second trade was a long again at around 148100 as this looked to be a base. Once again, I targetted the previous target at 148925.. It went as
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