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Giving up your career to trade financial markets for yourself

Just so you know,  I am not the above picture!! Wrong sex first of all and she's far better looking than me! Was interesting to find this picture so I thought I'd post it anyway! :) Back to being more serious, if you're like me and you've been learning to trade the financial markets in your spare time outside of your usual career there will become a time if you're persistent and dedicate enough when you find that you're doing quite well and the serious thinking comes into play... should

December 25, 2009 No Comments Full Story

Daytrading the DOW – 9th December 09

Daytrading the DOW - 9th December 09

I thought I'd dabble again today and get back into the swing of doing some trading. It's been a while since I updated this blog but I do want to get back into it and start updating the blog as religiously as I used to. Anyway, some nice technicals on the DOW today. You could see that there was a clear downtrend channel (where I have wrote 'resistance line here'), I drew the line to see how the chart would react to this line.. obviously, the idea is that if you are looking to sell, sell when i

December 9, 2009 No Comments Full Story

EURUSD trading success

EURUSD trading success

Following on from my successful 40 odd points from the DOW, I had another success with the EURUSD. I shorted the market at 1.4645 and it was drifting nicely south when it made an upward push against my position.. my stop was at 1.4670. Market fell and I had my limit at 1.4622 for 23 points.

October 1, 2009 No Comments Full Story

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