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Posted on December 02nd, 2008 in Trading Journal

Big day in Australia. 100 basis points cut brought us to 4.25% now. But at the same time RBA hinted that’s the end of easing (uhm…do you…trust..R..B..A…eh?) . Anyway, I guess, it managed to killed some shorts.
I did two trades today. Shorted the AUDJPY in the begining of Asian session, bagged some [...]

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Tale of two trades — USDJPY, EURUSD

Posted on December 01st, 2008 in Trading Journal

In order to salvage my getting lower blog readerships (in fact, it is consistently low readership ) , I am going to post two trades that I have made today , 01-Dec-2008, London session. it is show off time again!
Scalping? Yeah, I do scalp. But, I have a box of [...]

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A Dollar negative week ahead?

Posted on November 30th, 2008 in Trading Journal

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We have a series of economic reports lining up next week. And majority of them are dollar negative. This should be an interesting week, and it might be a week with trading opportunities.
Looking at the U.S $ Index, well, one might say we are waiting for a upside breakout, [...]

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Weekend updates

Posted on November 23rd, 2008 in Trading Journal

Firstly, if you are wondering what happened to the Short USDJPY, and Long USDCAD positions? They were all winners with profit targets hit. I am kinda lazy to post another charts to show off today. Maybe I should do that to attract some traffics.
Guess what, USDJPY’s rebound at the end of last [...]

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Trading routine

Posted on November 19th, 2008 in Trading Journal, Trading Lessons

I always tell my friend about my trading strategy is “wake up in the morning , and collect profit”. Of course, that’s a joke. The basic idea is, once the order is submitted, executed, with stop loss and profit taking or exit orders are in place, I normally do not stare at the screen too [...]

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