Feb 14 - Tried a pivot trade — Whew! close call. The pdr trade done saved the pivot loss and exited with small gain. The trend is not solid.

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Feb 13 - Did that adv pivot trade — Good entry - but prices moved the other way. Had to exit for small loss. 5pip Well handled though. Eventually the prices moved to target (S1) but removed trade as it had hit stop and no longer qualifies to ...

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Reply — 'x2lt', True I need to post charts. When I started this thread it was for the 2 of us who do this trading together to keep track of our trades. I did not know anyone else would even be interested. I can start posting charts if that ...

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Nice pdr opportunity - Feb 10 — Missed it on g/y and traded it on e/y for 70pip gain. Entry could have been better. Long term trade is still on. g/y may be ripe for adv pivot trade next week.

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Feb 07 - did a pdr - small loss — PDR possibility arose and traded on the same. Turned out to be a breakout. Closed the pdr for a small loss around 10pip and went back to sleep - should have traded the breakout (was a good size explosion)

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News trade (had to do the non farm) Feb 03 — It was a day when prices never fell back. Havent seen so many of those before. So just had to leave with breakeven.

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Jan 30 - 30 pip gain for pdr — Strange night. Enterered pivot which evetually turned out to be adv pivot followed by pdr and after removing the first 2 trades with small loss the pdr returned 30 pip for chump change. *****Whew ***** ...

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Jan 29 - 60 pip gain — Simple pivot trade down from CPP. The entry could have been better and left a lot to be desired. Pivot trades come with higher risk but this one was not too bad. Target was S1 - good profit though.

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140pip gain - good trade Jan 25-27 — This was a 2-3 day trade full of expectations, calculating entry amount and finally when it was over it was a pdr trade in combination with a breakout. The breakout changed colour half way. Normally it ...

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Lossy day - but done well Jan 24 — Attempted a pdr trade and lost 40pips. It broke out from the opposite side. Good attempt. There is always risk when trying pdr on compressed candlestick Risk was well taken since there was over bought ...

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Waited for a pdr instead got into a news trade - 01/23/12 — A strange news fluctuation coinciding with a lack luster news event in forex factory - under yellow category of importance. PDR trade which had high hopes on never took off. It is ...

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What a strong trend — Entered a pivot trade. Took all the way till morning to reach target and go furhter. Good 90pips. The trend was strong enough to take a pivot risk.

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Jan 17 - Breakout trade fizzles out — Made out with 40pip. Chump change. colour change gave it away. good entry though.

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Jan 13 The pivot point trade — The pivot trade was very stong potential and so did not get to target but made it half way for ~70pips good!

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10pip loss breakout happend Jan 10 — mismanaged. Need to manage high noon moment better.

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10pip loss - breakout never happened Jan10 — Breakout stalled too long. Never took off and created an awesome compression (under 50pip ) @@@@@ soooo when are traders going to come out of the wood works and Move

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ADP Non Farm - news — The numbers were cocky. too high to be real. Anyway the market responded. Made out with a fast 40p for 2mini lots. (acutally 20p but the amt was doubled) chump change!!

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Jan2 trade - breakout — It was a slow cooked breakout. then it went only half way closed for a 45pip profit Nice entry @ 119.30 The following day the trend exists but no continued movement.

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Dec 28 Closed the u/j — Happy to have closed the u/j. lost some 40pips - still off my bak. the jap intervention fiasco. (leftover) Good it is gone.

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Dec21 - Pivot trade due to trend — A good after-breakout trend led to a pivot trade which are usually avoidable due to large loss potential (wide stops). This time though I got in - biting the bullet and target at R1. Hit target - 45pip gain.

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