EURCHF update — trailing stop loss hit on the remaining 1%.

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EURCAD revisit — naaaa. i dont like it & price is supported above the entry anyway. PASS

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CADJPY revist ... — i dont have enuf data on fxdd to do a full analysis of this pair. will just watch the price action.

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CHFJPY (pass) — in light of everything else going on & this doji pin bar not having any sense of direction, im just passing. cant be bothered.

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GBPJPY revisit — even better looking pin here than EURJPY ... 1, 2, 3, & 4 are met price is heavily supported to the downside and has all the room in the world to the upside. confusing b/c bearish sentiment is alive & well. entry would be ...

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revisit EURJPY ... papertrade — 1) is not met 2) is met 3) is met ... what about 4? price went thru support at 13399 & 13298 & closed above it ... now what? this meets the rules for trading this pin ... but i dont like it despite the fact that ...

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revisit USDJPY ... — meets 1) & 2) ... but 4) is not met b/c price did not test any support area that i could find during the last trading session (it did test support a few days back where it failed to hold up) ... this needs to be traded w/ ...

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GBPCHF ... papertrade — also, price isn't bouncing off support; price did run thru an old resistance level at 9099, but that never proved itself to be anything more than that (hence, not PPZ IMO) ... the pin bar in and of itself is just very, ...

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revisit of GBPUSD ... (papertrade) — pin criteria: close 1) not close beyond 25% of range of the bar (must meet 3) 2) open is above 50% 3) since this is a proxy pin (close is not w/in prior day's bar) so looking back farther & must relate to ...

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sunday watchlist — GBPUSD ... bullish proxy PB (close is below the left eye); still very bearish momentum; it's tradeable, but market very volatile which is giving me some pause --- revisit GBPCHF ... bullish PB of all PB's here ... very ...

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friday/sunday overview continued — crap ... the edit button is gone ... anyhow: USDCAD ... going long, sharp correction by market close. good news for exchanging my USD's into CAD's, but otherwise, nothing tradeable here. EURCAD ... bearish ...

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friday pairs overview — EURUSD ... strong bearish trend, still papertrading this off the break; nothing new to trade here GBPUSD ... bullish proxy PB (close is below the left eye); still very bearish momentum; it's tradeable, but market very ...

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absolutely!! or ... maybe we should just buy the bullion? p.s. i am not sure i can still get bubblegum in canada for $1.80 ...

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pretty good week — 8% from j16-type trades (simply considering the picks made, not the margin call debaucle), 11% from IB's, & 4% on 5 minute scalping.

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CADJPY papertrade friday update — triggered. TSL moved to reduce risk in half.

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CHFJPY papertrade friday update — time stop triggered. no trade.

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GBPJPY friday update — triggered & dropped 300 pips & then rebounded forming a PB ... need to check this out & see if it's tradeable in the reverse. presently this trade is in the red.

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EURUSD papertrade friday update — time stop triggered. no trade.

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TSL update friday — EURCHF ... TSL moved to 5277 (plus the huge spread) GBPUSD ... TSL moved to b/e (plus the huge spread) AUDUSD (IB) ... TSL = risk reduced in half

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and you're splitting that w/ me 50/50 right?

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