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04/03/2014 GBPUSD March Update

March 4, 2014

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I’ve been writing about the Cable’s movements all year.  You can get up to date by reading my previous posts: here In my last few pieces I’ve been keeping an eye on the monthly chart which you can see above. I had talked about how the monthly 200MA had acted as a cap in 2009 […]

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Feb 13th – GBPUSD Update

February 13, 2014

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I’ve been keeping an eye on GBPUSD in 2014 and wrote about the pair a few weeks back (which you can read here). In those pieces I talked about the cap that the Monthly 200 period Moving Average has presented around 1.6635. Price hit those levels…and then promptly sold off. Well after a nice sell […]

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11th Feb: Gold Update

February 11, 2014

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Here’s a little update from my Gold post of the 20th Jan which you can read here: Gold In my previous post I talked about how having double bottomed nicely price was running into resistance around the weekly trend line / weekly 20 Moving Average and a resistance zone around 1265 -1275.  I mentioned that […]

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24th Jan: Smash & Grab on the Dax – Wallachi Fan – +1.8R

January 27, 2014

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At the end of 2013 I was asked to create a simple, multi-asset, multi-time frame strategy that a relative new-comer could use and would also be good for trading both continuations and reversals. I developed the ‘Wallachi Fan’ which I’ve shared with a few clients and you’ll see the odd post about trades using this strategy.  My […]

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Jan 27 – GBPUSD Update: 24 hours is a long time in trading

January 27, 2014

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There’s a saying that “7 days is a long time in politics” well in financial markets it would appear that 24 hours is a long time in trading. I’d put up a piece on Thursday evening / Friday morning about GBPUSD hitting new highs and intimating that a daily and weekly close above the 1.66 […]

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Some Daily charts from last weeks presentation

October 22, 2013

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I was delivering a presentation for a broker client last week which included some market analysis and thought I’d put up a few of the charts I talked about here.  It will be interesting to see whether today’s NFP figures will make a blind bit of difference to the markets.  We shall wait and see. […]

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19th July – Profiting whilst I work, rest and play. Five wins from six trades = 9R profit

July 19, 2012

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Hello traders, After returning from a busy few days including a long and enjoyable evening at the London Trader’s Network Social event I was able to sit down this afternoon and take a look at the 6 trades I’d placed early on Tuesday and how they’d fared over the last 48 hours. Several people at […]

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1/11/11 – Benefiting from Japanese Intervention

November 1, 2011

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Fellow traders, Its been a while since I posted a video. I’ve been suffering from a severe winter infection the last few weeks so am just easing myself back into the action.  Here’s a trade from this week upon which I benefitted from the Japanese intervention. Enjoy FXTraderPaul

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15/09/2011 Update GBPUSD: Stopped out for +84 pips profit

September 16, 2011

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So here’s an update to the GBPUSD trade from last week. You may remember from my earlier installments (which you can read here) that having gone short at 1.5908 I fully expected the GBPUSD to bounce of the area of support around 1.5785 and then head back up and take out my trailing stop (which […]

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13/9/2011 Update to GBPUSD & EURCAD Shorts

September 13, 2011

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Fellow Traders, Here’s a quick update to Fridays post about being short on GBPUSD and EURCAD which you can read here. First off the EURCAD. You may recall I was short on the daily chart @ 1.38320 based on a simple price action set-up. Price has continued to descend and I’ve simply trailed my stop […]

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