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Entries from October 2007

The EURUSD Breakout Follow-up

October 29th, 2007 · No Comments

This is a follow up post on the EURUSD waiting to break out of a “mini-range”. The original post can be found here.
The EURUSD was trading within a range earlier, and we were waiting for a breakout to either side of the range. This is what the chart looked like:

Based on simple chart reading, we [...]

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Tags: Forex Trading · Technical Analysis · Trading Lessons · Trading Range

My Third Week of Forex Day Trading: -7.08%

October 27th, 2007 · 2 Comments

This is my third week of day-trading the 5EMAs Forex Trading System. The result at the close of this week is a -7.08% on the account.

A Review of My Day Trading This Week
After going through a review of the trades that I took this week, I noticed a couple of signs in terms of implementing [...]

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Tags: Day Trading · Forex Trading · Trading Lessons · Trading Psychology · Trading Thoughts

Mid-Week Update: My Forex Day-Trading Adventures in “Abnormal Trading Conditions”

October 24th, 2007 · No Comments

This is why we should always test out trading strategies, systems and routines over a period of time before going live.
In the past 2.5 days, the forex currency pairs that are on my day-trading watch list have gone into “abnormal” trading behavior. If you’ve been following my recent posts, you’ll know that this is [...]

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Tags: Day Trading · Forex Trading · Forex Trading Strategy · Trading Lessons · Trading Thoughts

Forex Trading System Courses & Having A Forex Mentor

October 22nd, 2007 · No Comments

Have you attended 2 - 5 day trading courses and at the end of these courses feel so hyped up and motivated to start trading?

During the trading course, everything appears simple and easy. Sometimes, what you see in trading courses are so clear that you can wonder what’s the fuss about how difficult it is [...]

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Tags: Forex Mentor · Forex Trading · Forex Trading Systems · Trading Lessons

My Second Week of Day Trading Results: +4.47%

October 20th, 2007 · No Comments

This is the second week of day-trading the 5EMAs Forex Trading System. This week, the result wasn’t as good as the first week where I made +5.13%. This week, I made only a +4.47% Return on the Account.
Day Trading Perfection
Also, this week I had my first losing trade using the 5EMAs Forex Trading System. I [...]

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Tags: Day Trading · Forex Trading · Trading Thoughts

EURUSD: Mini-Trading Range (Daily Chart)

October 18th, 2007 · No Comments

The EURUSD is making a small consolidation on the daily chart. The previous trend has been a strong and clear upward move, and it’s more likely that the EURUSD will breakout upwards to continue the trend.
EURUSD Daily Chart: 18th October, 2007

Bigger Picture
On the bigger picture, we can see that the EURUSD is nearing the highs [...]

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Tags: Forex Trading · Technical Analysis · Trading Lessons · Trading Range · Trading Thoughts

GBPUSD: Trading Within A Range (Daily Chart)

October 18th, 2007 · No Comments

The GBPUSD has been trading within a range lately on the daily chart. So if you’re a position trader, you might be getting a little impatient and itching to trade.
Daily Chart of GBPUSD 18th October, 2007

Where will the GBPUSD go?
The trend prior to the trading range has been up, so there is a possibility [...]

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Tags: Forex Trading · Trading Lessons · Trading Range · Trading Thoughts

Forex Trading Tool: Calculate Your Position Size

October 18th, 2007 · No Comments

As a forex trader, one of the things you have to contend with is the different values each currency has in terms of the US Dollar. This can make determining your position size quite troublesome, especially when you want to calculate a trade size in a hurry.

Here’s how I do it using a Free Forex [...]

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Tags: Forex Trading · Trading Tools

Forex Trading Tools: Developing Your Skills For Consistent Profits

October 17th, 2007 · No Comments

There are several Forex Trading Tools available to a trader. Yet with the multitude of such tools, the number of traders that make it to consistent profits are still so few. So the question that begs to be asked is:

If it’s not the forex trading tools that make a successful trader, then what does?

Some of [...]

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Tags: Forex Trading · Trading Lessons · Trading Psychology

Make Your Trading Fun, Easy and a Matter of Fact

October 15th, 2007 · No Comments

Each day, you make so many decisions about your life. When you wake up in the morning, what clothes to wear, drive your kids to school, which route to take, what to eat for breakfast, and whether to stop off to fill the gas tank. Each decision that you make requires little thought, and are [...]

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Tags: Forex Trading · Trading Lessons · Trading Psychology