As the golfer Gary Player said: The more I practice the luckier I get! By practice in this instance I don't mean taking trades but rather practice identifying trade set ups and keeping a log of what worked and what didn't - that way you will get ...

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fib168 — re your post the only explanation i can offer is that you were buying after a massive 140 pip move. There is a reference in an earlier post to not taking any positions after a move of that magnitude. Otherwise your read of the trade ...

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I didn't take it because of the time of day but wish I had now! Not to worry there will always be another train coming along.

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AUDUSD — Possible long trade setting up on aussie - any views?

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Hi D I am interested if you have any comments on the 4 charts posted by 919, as far as I can see there really wasn't any well developed trend in the majority of them and with the benefit of hindsight they look like great trades but don't really ...

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aud — does anyone else have this gap down on their chart for audusd - starting to really kick myself over missing this trading opportunity

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audusd — JD on that aus trade the open of the entry bar was 56.6 and the sma was at 56.4 - looked perfect to me and ended a winner. Teach me to get distracted after watching it for an hour or so. On the eurusd I would suggest it was where I ...

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AUDUSD — Have been waiting for this aussie trade to develop and ended up missing the entry point - interesting to see if it develops into a full blown winner.

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Hi D The Dow chart was a winning trade and I posted a GBPUSD winning trade yesterday. Pretty happy with your way of trading the trend and I guess I'm like everyone else in that when I get a couple of winners in a row I just log off for the day - I ...

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DOW — I was keen to see how this worked on stock indicies and found what I thought was a perfect set up on the Dow (at least it worked out that way) there was a period of consolidation well before this set up which signified the trend was ...

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Maybe just me but your lines re divergence don't seem to be very accurate

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didn't say it was possible only that it would be nice

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What would be nice is to have something that measures a 45 degree angle. The greater the degree of angle on an early pullback seems to deliver good results.

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first one was the set up, on the second one i worried about a lower low being made along with divergence. when in doubt stay out.

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GBPUSD — forgot to mention that there was divergence showing on the second pullback which also made me wary

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GBPUSD — One set up that fulfilled criteria and one that didn't.

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I agree 1.02 is a big test, triple top if it fails

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Euro has been in an up trend for last 7 hours

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Aussie employment data was not complete due to Queensland floods - that's what the statistics bureau said prior to the release

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Re the question on AUD data the bureau said the recent floods had played havoc with getting reliable data out of Queensland, I guess that's why the aussie got all confused.

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