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Weekly Strength Analysis 28/8/2011

August 30, 2011

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It’s been a quite couple of trading weeks but I’m still going through my trading routine. Here’s the weekly currency strength analysis: 1. CHF 2. YEN 3. AUD 4. EUR 5. GBR 6. USD So no major changes on the weekly strength front (despite volatility and intervention) If we look at the daily strength we […]

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Weekly Analysis 7/8/2011

August 8, 2011

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As I mentioned last week I’ll start putting up my weekly strength chart for the Currencies I watch. 1. CHF 2. YEN 3. AUD 4.EUR 5.GBP 6. USD Only real change on the weekly strength is that despite the BoJ intervention Yen has overtaken AUD. Not a real surprise if you look at the kicking that the […]

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A busy week – getting some love from US Indices but no love from the Yen

May 18, 2011

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Hi it’s been quiet for the last week or two. A mixture of no signals and other commitments. Usually when the markets are quiet it means that something is building. And the last 10 days or so have seen some big moves on the commodities markets which have followed through into the FX and Indices […]

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26/04/2011 – Stopped out on Cable +25

April 26, 2011

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Hello readers, I hope you all had an enjoyable Easter weekend.  I carried this position through the weekend and was stopped out early today.  I had considered closing the position before the holiday but just decided to stick with my plan and follow my trailing stop as per normal.  You may remember from my previous […]

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20/4/2011 – GBPUSD Long +102 so far…

April 21, 2011

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Just a quick piece on a long trade in GBPUSD which was triggered last night.  See the attached chart. This was a Growth trade, had been set on Sunday and was triggered yesterday (Wednesday) afternoon taking me long at 1.6435. I had missed an opportunity to take an extra position based on my rules earlier in […]

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Trading Update 17/2/2011 – a very slow week – 0.8%

February 17, 2011

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It’s been a slow couple of weeks for my Weekly Growth trades.  Either no set-ups on my charts or orders have been placed but not triggered within their time limit.  This week I’ve had orders in on GBPUSD but alas so far no trigger.  That’s the way it goes sometimes. My Weekly Income Trades triggered […]

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When Fundamentals trump Technicals – NZDUSD -83

January 21, 2011

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So here’s a little story about a swing position I had on NZDUSD this week.  Whilst my Cable trade took all the plaudits, this one was also working its way to completion. I’d had a technical set-up last week on NZDUSD and it set-up again this week.  The trade was set and it triggered on Monday […]

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Trading Update – Weds 19/01/2011 – Final Cable portion closed for +298

January 19, 2011

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Hey traders, Here’s an update to my post last week regarding some of my growth account plays.  You can read the first part here http://wp.me/pFP6t-nQ .  I should also state that I have positions in NZDUSD and USDJPY also trigger this week and I’m following those as we speak however I’m only going to focus on Cable here. After […]

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End of the week review = +4.5%

January 14, 2011

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Well I had a good feeling about 2011 and so far so good.  If all my weeks were like this then I’d be a happy boy. My income trading generated 62 pips off 3 trades for a 3% return and one of my position trades has triggered.  I mentioned earlier in the week that I […]

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Starting 2011 on the right foot +3%

January 11, 2011

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It’s been a while since I wrote about trading. My apologies but I’ve been busy reviewing 2010 and planning 2011 to make it a fantastic year.  More of that later. I opened no new positions in the last 2 weeks of the year.  So I sat down on Sunday evening to plan position trades and […]

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