Showing posts with label cable. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cable. Show all posts

Thursday, 10 March 2011

Perfect setup on cable (gbpusd) ... Pips in!


Today was a dangerous day to trade cable because of all the main news coming out (i.e. Manufacturing Production and Official Bank Rate) so i used 1/3 of my normal stake.

Before - click to enlarge


I marked on chart my entry point and stop loss.

Purple ema (20) is below the red ema (80). CCI and Stochastic are moving in unison from their highest levels toward their respectively lowest levels. 
After - click to enlarge
Some time later and this is the result.





My target profit was at W-S1 (weekly support 1) but as you can see i could've made more pips all the way to D-S2 (daily pivot support 2).
I'm happy with this being my only trade of the day with  47 pips of profit.

Monday, 7 March 2011

Topping it up with cable (gbpusd) ...


    Trading is like playing football or racing cars or telling jokes. It's a performance. You have good days and bad days and what happens in your life will, unfortunately, affect your decisions. Let's just say that i didn't get much rest on the weekend.

     Before getting it wrong earlier on with Euro, i placed an order on cable to go short, as i thought it needed a correction before moving higher again. My theory was based on Fibonacci, so i knew exactly where i wanted the price to go before i could go long again. I usually look at the 50% and 61.8% levels as possible reversals , so when placing my order at 1.6247 i was expecting a TP around the 50% level.

Fibonacci on the 1h chart

 I must confess that my heart sank when i saw cable shoot up through DP almost 60 pips without taking me with him...

Entry, SL and TP on 15min
 I also feel obliged to admit that i had forgotten my order on cable placed at 7:40am (GMT) when it was triggered in the afternoon.






The good thing is that my TP was eventually reached. 


When price reached D-S1 i bought back half-stake, set SL to BE and let the rest run.

Friday, 25 February 2011

Short trade on cable (GBP/USD) - 24 to 25/02 Pips in!


  
Perfect setup but this time i took it. 

The red vertical line shows the trigger. Purple below the red, CCI and Stochastic moved all the way up and then started moving down. 

My entry was a 1.6132 (below previous low), SL just above DP and previous highs and target profit WS-1, which today is almost at the same level of D-S1.

I actually bought half-stake at around 1.6079 and brought SL to BE and let the rest run to TP.