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trevwest replied Mar 2, 2009trade #27 — Bleh, trade 26 lost 48 pips. Hit my stop a couple hours ago, after a run up during asian session. A 4% drop in dow today, but eur/usd wasnt able to make a sustained break of support at 1.2550. still need about 30 pips or so to ...
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trevwest replied Mar 2, 2009trade #26 — OK here we go with month #3. gap down to start this week. last week same thing, so I went long to catch the gap fill but market kept going down. This week I will follow system and go short... we are sitting on strong support at ...
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trevwest replied Feb 27, 2009Weekly System adjustment — On the weekly system, I was using a 10 sma. I have been playing around with different ma's. ema seems to catch trend change quicker, so changing the weekly system to use the 11 ema in the future. Heres a comparison, ...
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trevwest replied Feb 27, 2009February 2009 — Dissapointing month, market ranging, I took a week off trading due to being sick, so possibly missed some opportunities. Or I could have missed some losses, haha... I need to do a better job of entering trades during ranging ...
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trevwest replied Feb 27, 2009trade #25 — Forgot to post yesterday after entering trade... Trade #24 lost 30 pips. Direction was right, but not enough upward momentum to move my trailing stop into profit. System still wanted to go long, but after bulls unable to move ...
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trevwest replied Feb 25, 2009trade #24 — Trade 23 failed miserably. dropped like a rock after i bought. system still wants long... and once again we had a higher low... resistance holding at 2850. range keeps narrowing... going to be a breakout soon, but which way? System ...
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trevwest replied Feb 25, 2009trade #23 — trade 22 was a bust, -70. system says up. I am seeing bullish momentum, higher lows for the last four days, but so far 3 tests of resistance at 1.2850 havent been succesful, other than monday, which i think was just carryover from ...
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trevwest replied Feb 23, 2009trade #22 — I wont be home this evening most likely, so setting a sell stop at 1.2700... only 20 pips away from that now, so should be hit shortly...
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trevwest replied Feb 23, 2009update — Well got me all excited for nothing... haha... stopped out for 76 pip gain. Looking like a big pinbar on the daily, but we still have the US session, who knows what will happen there. 200 pips up during asian, 200 pips down during ...
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trevwest replied Feb 22, 2009update — Well I wish all my entries were timed this well... just a few minutes after making my trade, price shot up 100 pips... worst case scenario now I lose 9 pips... oops take that back, money trade now.. 13 pips locked in... I would love ...
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trevwest replied Feb 22, 2009trade #21 — trade 20 lost 38 pips, trailing stop hit at 1.2654. Now have to decide direction for trade 21. price hit my daily chart 61.8 fib on friday, and was rejected. Opening price this week right at 50% retrace level. There is a nice ...
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trevwest replied Feb 19, 2009trade #20 — trade #19 stopped at 1.2616, so 62 pips profit. News spike stopped me out. If I monitored price all day, I would have gone short when price was rejected at the 38.2 fib retrace. So since price is right around where i was last ...
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trevwest replied Feb 18, 2009Most MA crossing systems dont work because people take MAs that are close together and get whipsawed brutally during ranging times... try the 11-50 MAs on Guppy. Last crossed down in aug, just crossed back up friday. In the area of 8000 pips minus ...
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trevwest replied Feb 18, 2009update — trade 19 still going. currently up around 135. stop at 1.2616 now, so 62 pips locked in, barring any slippage. still not at a succesful level, i prefer to get at least the same as the trailing stop (100 pips), but its guaranteed ...
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trevwest replied Feb 17, 2009update — trade 19 still going, so no new trades today. currently up around 80, only 12 pips locked in though. theres resistance from back in nov-dec at 1.2550, and so far price is not able to break that. If we do continue downward, more ...
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trevwest replied Feb 16, 2009trade #19 — Well, no gapfill for now... trade 18 stopped for loss of 70 pips. Bummer! We have broken range low, so going short now. Trade #19: sell eur/usd @1.2678, 100 pip trailer.
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trevwest replied Feb 15, 2009trade #18 — trade 17 stopped for loss at 1.3011. so loss of 58 pips. I was sick all last week, still a bit under the weather, so I didnt put on any trades. big gap down today, near the bottom of last few weeks trending market. Tough call as to ...
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trevwest replied Feb 8, 2009trade #17 — sell eur/usd @ 1.2953, 130 pip trailing stop.
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trevwest replied Feb 6, 2009update — Trade 16 hung in there for a few days, but only managed to profit 111 pips. NFP gave it the knockout punch. Oh well any profit is good profit, and it puts me in positive pips for Feb. Eur/usd is hitting a trendline on my chart, so ...
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trevwest replied Feb 5, 2009update — trade 16 still active. came within 15 pips of stop this morning, but now back to around 220 pips up. 101 locked in. would be nice to see it break 1.2700 tonight, only real support below that is 1.2550-2600 from early december. but if ...
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