GBP/USD: Bears Unleashed Below 1.5160

Sunday, February 28, 2010

GBP/USD: Bears Unleashed Below 1.5160

(Click on the Daily chart to enlarge it)

Prices broke, on Jan29th, an important Bullish Channel, doing a classic pullback to it on Feb 04th, thus resuming Cable´s Bearish Trend.
Now prices are trapped into a Bearish Channel but last week prices broke down its Lower Trendline and did a pullback to it last Friday Feb 26th, confirming its break down.
Weeklies are definitely Bearish so my strategies are:
* SHORT at 1.5310 / 1.5350 price zone as Resistance with tight STOP and Opened LIMIT

* SHORT below 1.5190 with STOP at 1.5230 and Opened LIMIT

If the 01-Hour candle closes above 1.5350 the strategies above are negated

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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Sunday, February 28, 2010

GBP/USD: Bears Unleashed Below 1.5160

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