For most of the day it was less than 40 pips. With that said, once again we were perfect with our entry, which was 1.7490. The most the market went against us was 3 pips, and with some good exit strategies we were able to take a 30-pip profit out of a very tough day.
This brings me to an interesting subject that we will discuss today.
When the market gets as tight as it has been over the last couple of weeks, it calls for some minor adjustments to be made to your personal trading strategy.
One adjustment I am making and would like to put out to our subscribers is that until the market shows an increase in the daily range I am decreasing the maximum allowable stop loss from 40 Pips to 30 Pips.
This is not just something I came up with out of the blue, there are reasons and rationale for this adjustment that I would like to share with you and get you thinking about what you could adjust in your own personal strategy.
And please feel free to drop us an email describing your adjustment if you would like to share them. The first thing I looked at which will allow me the luxury of reducing my stop loss is that our entry's have been so good. Since our last losing day, 3/14/06 when our trade went against us for 40 pips, we have had only one trade go against us for more than 20 pips ( 23 pips on 3/15/06).
Over the past three week had we used a static 30 pip stop loss, it would not have stopped us out of any trades, and it would have reduced our losses by 25%.
This also allows us to move our profit targets down and still maintain good risk to reward ratios. We must move our profit targets down due to the small daily ranges.
Had we used a 30 Pip profit target as the first target using 1:1 risk to reward ratio we would have closed four additional trades from 120 additional pips. Just a thought I wanted to share.
Cable is definitely in consolidation, and is right where it was at this time last night, its banging up against resistance right now trading around 1.7460.
This resistance is pretty strong with multiple levels in a tight region, which goes from 1.7460 all the way up to 1.7510. Consolidation should be expected to continue for the next few days with the early bias on the up side, but if the resistance holds below 1.7510 we will expect the price action to resume its downward move towards 1.7048.
As we discussed previously, this is a very tough market to make money in. The daily ranges just get too tight to be able to get in trades and hit profit. Making minor adjustment to your personal trading technique is imperative in this type of market if you expect to continue making profits.
Getting the proper forex trading education, to be able to recognize that adjustments should be made, and more importantly understand how to make those adjustments, is the best way to survive and thrive in this or any kind of market. Learn to be an independent trader and control your own future.
We find these support and resistance levels using a set of technical indicators and other variables that we have found to be most successful for us.
We use several other indicators and a variety of technical analysis techniques to enter and exit all of our trades.
Every trader will have a different combination of indicators that makes the most sense to them.
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Unfortunately the market just dropped, all night, never taking the bounce up we look for our entry. In the morning in was obvious Cable was not going to give us our trade, we had news coming out ( ISM) at 10:00 AM, it was time to get out of the way, and in doing so we prevent a loss of from 30 to 40 Pips.
The ISM news produced a 130 pip spike. Today we have several of the Fed presidents speaking, although none of them appear significant, you need to watch any trades you might be in
Tonight we are trading around 1.7380, our first region of resistance is in the 1,7420 range, and a second region around 1.7450. The strong support From 1.7310 to 1.7280 levels was violated firmly last night. For the next support level we will look around 1.7230.
For those of you who are fans of the candlestick patterns, we had a perfect double bottom form on both the 4 hour and the 1 hour charts yesterday, right before the spike up, I hope you saw it and were able to get in a long position.
Anywhere from 100 to 150 pips could have been had on the move. The double bottom formed in the first couple of hour of the London market, those of you who actively trade the London market were the beneficiary's of a classic pattern that worked to perfection.
I on the other hand missed this as I was studying the backs of my eye lids and not the charts at 3:00 AM EST. That is the beauty of how we teach forex trading in our forex-trading course.
There are a limitless number of ways you can choose to trade the forex, and you develop the style of trading that is right for you.
We find these support and resistance levels using a set of technical indicators and other variables that we have found to be most successful for us. We use several other indicators and a variety of technical analysis techniques to enter and exit all of our trades. Every trader will have a different combination of indicators that makes the most sense to them. Learn how to develop your own successful Forex Trading style by getting a Forex trading education. Whether it's a Forex trading course or a Forex seminar.