AUDUSD daily scalp — price reached my target ... but, not good enuf for oanda. it decided it missed it by 3 ... which really makes no sense b/c if the spread was 3, they usually take me out early ... price has now retraced 50-60 pips. i am ...

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quick play — end the night 45% net gain. good stuff. no chart

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divergence play — played this quasi-pin/quasi outside bullish bar off the mid-bb w/ divergence. it screwed around for a long time ... finally busted out & i grabbed 3.5 pips ... TOO SOON! as it turns out ... could have caught at least my 10 ...

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today is turning around — another play from support break at 2778 ... 13 pips! 42%

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another support break play — caught the short off this major s/r level at 2810-ish (oanda slipped me). 8 pips ... thought it had more to go so i jumped back in off the hourly IB ... big mistake as i had to fade a retrace ... out at 0 pips on ...

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2 more ... — this one was kind of interesting; there was an IB on 15 min & 30 min; price breached the high of the 15 min IB, then the resistance level at 2812/2814 on the 5 min, so i played it off the break of the 30 min IB at 2818 & banked 14 ...

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phew! i needed this one — triple pin bar ... took it short from the 1st pin bar after price breached support levels. good for 12 pips (1.5%)

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w/ divergence plays, price is usually going to at least make to the upper band b/f resuming the direction of the trend. here, i turned around and jumped in short off the pin bar that formed off the mid-BB ... turned out t/b a loser & price proceeded ...

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simple divergence play — emotional discipline was a factor in me not taking this obvious 10 pip-er ...

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has turned the corner. yahoo

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trades i missed while on my hike — at the "x" a pin bar at resistance level again (also is off mid-bb w/ the trend) and the 2nd one was the break of a major level of support that had formed on the 5 minute chart. i should have set a limit ...

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back to basics ... — aussie open. bearish outside bar off upper band w/ the trend; also, there was a triple bottom on the 15 minute that price had just broken thru. 10 pips on half; SL moved to b/e on the other half which was hit. ...

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no daily scalps today — EURCAD spread is 20 ... pass AUDUSD ... can't figure out what the price action is telling me so i'll just leave my short order where it's at and cross fingers EURAUD ... love/hate w/ the IB's, but nevertheless, the ...

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true confessions ... — can't just brag about the good ones ... here's some that i botched during the closing hours of the east coast markets: short off the pb; set my SL too tight after i missed taking 1/2 off & moving remaining position to ...

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other updates — price action w/ s/r, etc. trades ... stopped out, still red, and getting redder IB's ... pretty much the same going to abandon ship here for a while until i can get the mess sorted out. definitely not switching to live trading ...

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wednesday daily scalp watchlist — EURCAD ... bullish outside bar AUDUSD ... evening star doji?? EURAUD ... IB (straddle trade?) slim pickings today

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tuesday daily scalp trades update — im up 3% for this system thus far.

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final trades to cap off the evening — was the trade from the above post (4 bars that created a dbl top & dbl bottom thru resistance) pin bar from upper bb can't be seen as well on this chart, but it was an ascending triangle w/ 4 or 5 bars of ...

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.... PPZ — support turned resistance helps w/ trade ... 20 pips on 1/2; 30 pips on the last 1/2 running total ... 38%

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another one missed tuesday nite — flag/pennant as continuation, plus support break & once broke 2900 ... FREEFALL to fib expansion of 162% ... uggh ... no worries ... there will be others.

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