Tag Archives: Stop Loss

AUD/USD – Boundary Protection

Yesterday’s post – Buy AUD/USD on Trend Break – showed my stop entry order. After the release of jobs data today, AUD/USD rocketed higher, through the stop entry order at 1.0337. I should be long AUD/USD. However, my account shows … Continue reading

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Copper Triangle

Copper broke below the triangle support line triggering entry on the sell strategy I discussed in a post last Friday 1 March. No warm inner glow of anticipation from a big initial move here. At this stage, the market is hanging … Continue reading

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GPT Group Triangle – One for the Purists

Aside from the straight-edge trendline it doesn’t get much more old-fashioned in the technical analysis world than the triangle. When you see a good one though it remains a cause for celebration – or whatever it is that you do … Continue reading

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US SP 500 – Filthy Stop Out

What’s wrong with this picture? US SP 500 – 5 Minutes

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Going long Euro? Test a Triangle.

In a number of my recent posts I have been making some pretty bullish noises about the state of the euro. Most recently this opinion has been based on the bounce off the 200 day moving average and the break … Continue reading

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EURGBP – Short term weakness but consider the higher timeframe

On the hourly chart of EURGBP I think we are quite likely at a price juncture that allows for a decent risk:reward setup for FX traders to take a look at. Again in this setup I am looking at volatility … Continue reading

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Spark Infrastructure (SKI AU) showing signs of trend continuation

One of the easier tasks in technical analysis is looking at an old chart and isolating where the trending moves were. Of course when you only have white paper in front of you (i.e. in real-time) you have much less … Continue reading

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AUDUSD setting up potential hourly symmetrical triangle

Hi again everyone, it’s been something of a morning of intra-day patterns so I figured I would just keep posting them as I find them. In this case you can see the fast moving AUDUSD trading in something of a … Continue reading

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Alcoa (AA US) in wide channel but resistance close

Hello everyone, usually I would post this type of setup a bit earlier in the construction of the formation but as it turns out it doesn’t make a lot of difference in terms of price movement so it’s probably worth … Continue reading

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Microsoft approaching potential Gartley cluster zone

Hi all, one of the setups that my colleague Ric Spooner specialises in is the Gartley cluster. Unusually today it was me who actually spotted this setup so am writing it up. I won’t go into huge detail about how … Continue reading

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