At night the first profit target for the GBPUSD was filled. The morning signal is shown below: From: Dave Hughe <plainfx@gmail.com> Date: Tue, May 20, 2014 at 6:54 AM Subject: May 20 To: GBPUSD SL for the remaining 2 units: 1.6798 EURUSD Sell 1.3674 SL 1.3712 P1= 1.3652 P2= 1.3627 At night there were two … [Read more…]
On Monday, May 19 the following signals issued: The EURUSD and GBPUSD orders were filled. The USDCHF trade had been cancelled later on. The prices did not change during the day, therefore both these trades were carried over the night.
Answer by Dave Hughe: The major part of investing and trading is money management. If you don’t mind losing all your money and even more if you trade on margin, then you don’t need stop loss orders. On the other hand, if you want to control your risk, stop loss orders are a must.
The up to date results since the start of this blog are as follows: Week 1: +231 pips Week 2: – 19 pips Week 3: +415 pips Week 4: +366 pips Week 5: +137 pips Week 6: +150 pips Week 7: + 20 pips Week 8: +155 pips Week 9: + 23 pips Week 10: … [Read more…]
The GBPUSD reached its first profit target precisely but did not advance any further. We closed the remaining two units at break even. Therefore the total profit for this trade is +20 pips.
None of the trades were triggered yesterday. Today we went long GBPUSD, see below:
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A lot of Pips! – that is the message we received today from one of our subscribers in Europe. He traded the GBP news release today the way we teach at Plain Forex Trading. Way to go! We did not trade these news as they were released at 4:30 am EST. None of our signals … [Read more…]
Answer by Dave Hughe: An exchange rate is the value of one currency converted into another. In an exchange rate, there are always two components: a base currency and a counter currency. An exchange rate can be quoted directly, when the foreign currency is the base currency and the domestic currency is the counter currency … [Read more…]
We bought AUDUSD at 0.9382 with a Stoop-Loss at 0.9339. Unfortunately this trade did not go anywhere and hit the stop at night. The total loss from this trade is -129 pips.