GBP/USD: Bearish Still in Control?

Saturday, July 11, 2009

GBP/USD: Bearish Still in Control?

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It seems that the bears are still in control. The 50.00% fibo retracement of the major bearish move 1.8669 to 1.3504, which is at 1.6086, worked well as support last week.
We have a short-term bearish trendline providing resistance, and a 1.6212 / 1.6233 resistance area.
My strategy is to watch this 1.6212 / 1.6233 resistance area and enter SHORT at a failure to break it up. Add SHORT lots to the break of 1.6155 and 1.6086. Main LIMIT is at 1.5800.

TRADING STYLE

Even though we are considered Day-Traders, our trading sometimes requires different styles, according to the patterns and/or how the market moves during our trading sessions. All strategies presented in all posts below are for Positioning but, depending on how markets behave, our style can change so that we can capture good trading opportunities......

Our Trading Styles are discriminated as below:

1) Scalping: Short-term trades, usually betwen 2 to 15 minutes, with stops lower than 8 pips, targeting 15 pips. Generally our Scalping trades apply very low stops (5 pips) aiming quick surges in prices of around 10 pips, in a matter of a very few minutes.................................................................................................
2) Day-Trading: this is our main Trading Style where we dedicate most of our time. Their lenght is usually betwen 10 to 60 minutes, sometimes for more than 2 hours, with stops between 10 and 20 pips and targets between 20 and 60 pips...
3) Positioning: Long-Term trades based on Daily and 4-Hour charts, with stops between 20 and 40 pips, targeting minimum 60 pips. Most of these trades have Open Limits......................................................

Money Management

This is a crucial aspect of our trading, considering the different styles we apply to our trading Sessions. As the Positioning Style requires larger stops (usually the double of our Day-Trading Style), their lot size is lower than usual, generally 50% of our standard lot size. As the Scalping style requires lower stops (usually half of our Day-Trading style), their lot size is usually 150% of our standard lot size. For instance: let´s suppose that our current standard lot size is 200K. For Scalping trades the lot size will be 300K and for Positioning it will be 100K...................................

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Saturday, July 11, 2009

GBP/USD: Bearish Still in Control?

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