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Charts, Levels and Strategizing

USDCAD making a Lower Low: Week of 15 March 2021

In this post I’m taking a look at the USDCAD, but first I want to make a couple comments on last week’s post where I discussed the CHFJPY.

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Charts, Levels and Strategizing

CHFJPY at Support: Week of 8 March 2021

The chart below is that of the CHFJPY daily and it is currently testing support.

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Tips / Psychology / General

Learning to Say No and How it can Help Your Trading

People can spend a lot of time doing “things” that don’t contribute to their dreams / goals. And by simply doing the opposite, that is doing less of those “things” and more of what contributes to their dreams / goals, the faster success can be achieved in their various endeavours. This post is about learning to say NO to those various “things”. Saying NO takes a lot of discipline, over time it can become a habit, and can spill over into other areas of your life such as trading. And trading is what we are about. Let’s start.

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Charts, Levels and Strategizing

USDCHF Inverse Head & Shoulders, February 2021

In today’s post I will be discussing the inverse head and shoulders pattern that recently formed in the USDCHF forex pair. This was on the daily chart and the breakout happened on the 1st of February 2021. I will give my opinion / insight on how I think traders out there might / could have traded it; hoping readers gain some insight from it. Let’s start.

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Tips / Psychology / General

The Essential Parts of a Trading Strategy

In this post I’m going to explain the bare essentials that are necessary in a trading strategy. As part of a trading strategy you must, at the very least know: the markets you are trading, your trading time frame, entry reasons, risk of the trade and how you manage your trades. I’ll be discussing that next with the help of some examples. Let’s start.

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Tips / Psychology / General

Mindfulness, Trading and Life

In one of my previous posts, I wrote about how I want to practice becoming more patient and disciplined this year and beyond; not just in my trading, but also generally in my life. In that same post I mentioned how I would start by doubling down on practicing mindfulness. It is something I’ve been doing for some time, but I never really used the benefits that come with it. This post is about mindfulness and about how I’m currently using it to become more patient and disciplined.

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Technical Analysis

The Ascending and Descending Triangle

In this post I will explain the ascending and descending triangle as chart patterns being used by many traders as part of their trading arsenal. These patterns are very popular in the realm of technical analysis and can be either of the continuation or reversal type as you will see shortly.

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Tips / Psychology / General

More Patience and Discipline for 2021 and Beyond

In 2021 I want to work harder on my patience and discipline. It has always been something that I’ve been good in some areas of my trading and not too great in others. I’ve also come to realize that patience and discipline is something worth working on all the time, not just in trading but also my life in general. 

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Tips / Psychology / General

Is a proven trading strategy enough for successful trading?

A written out trading plan is good. Having a written trading plan that you know has an edge is great. Having a written out trading plan with an edge which was backtested is even better. But will such a trading plan (written + backtested + proven edge) be enough to trade successfully? 

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Tips / Psychology / General

Stick to your Trading Strategy; Stick to your Guns

The following is an excerpt from a chapter called Stick to your Guns from the book “Technical Analysis of Stock Trends” which was written by Robert D. Edwards and John Magee: