Trade on Friday Aug 19 — Pivot trade for 35 pip profit. The trade was good straight forward trade. CPP to S1. Found a downward trend in the daily charts and entered. NB. Better to enter trade at prev day high and trade down to S1 - could have ...

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Thanks much! — Hi Greg, I have to echo the comments by zorroz. I have been following your thread off and on and trading time to time. I would get into the market and do well for a while and would wander off into some strategy for which gets me ...

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This was simple gain — There was 6hrly trends, If the daily trend was down, could have made more money by leaving exits at S1

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loss — got the news entry correctly - need to reduce amt to 10% for news entry too. exited too early - margin too low!! small loss - insignificant - but mistakes to be noted.

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Traded!! — Breakout trade - close exit - i woke up in the morn and was shocked prices just came to my exit and reversed.

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Breakout Trade! — The breakout over previous day high No brainer trade. the movement was not strong enough. it did breakout though.

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loss — Need to set price alerts - always! charge that cell phone.

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Some gain — Normal trades. the loss is legitimate the upward movement cpp to r1 was lost. need to relax to10 pips for cross movements accross pivots.

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trade loss — Feb 06 2011 Need to wait for 1 atr over pivot line before getting in on a cross trade!

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news event pick up — Feb1st trade, This trade was an early morning news event pickup from an entry. It is a pivot pt trade - NOT a news trade. just that it was entered during a news event well done. target was at 2*atr

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gains — Nice. should have got in for another ride from pivot down.

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losses — then there are issues when the direction changes - lost 5%

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some days — Nothing happens after all that....

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Rabbit's foot. — Right place - right time.

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blockbuster trade — this trade - notice that there are 2 entries. the trade went against the fist entry for a while. did not exit since the separation b/w pivot and r1 was small (<100pip) - took that risk and it paid off. if the separation is ...

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got back — The trend was easy to predict. Need to stop entering in b/w pivots.

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loss — bad trades. thought the trend was down and it went up. a tough day to trade. with experience that should be corrected.

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trade — exited with gain. Good direction. Even thojugh it was testing the stop loss pt, it eventually delivered.

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Then there are days — This is an easy picture perfect trade! It doesn't get any better than this in real trading. THe trend direction was down. waited until price alerts went off when prices hit CPP entereed short. price action was not good ...

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