Archive for tag: euro

Scalp journal - 8 October 2008

8 October, 2008 (20:45) | Journal | By: Colin McGinley

The first two trades of the day were both sell limit orders I had left in place overnight. They get hit at the start of the London session.
Trade 1
Short EUR/USD
Entry: 1.3658
Exit: 1.3640
Pips: +18
Trade 2
Short GBP/USD
Entry: 1.7625
Exit: 1.7613
Pips: +12
Trade 3
Short EUR/JPY
Entry: 136.307
Exit: 136.193
Pips: +11.4
Trade 4
Short EUR/JPY
Entry: 136.526
Exit: 136.41
Pips: +11.6
Trade 5
Buy EUR/USD
Entry: 1.3689
Exit: 1.3695
Pips: [...]

Conversatorship

9 September, 2008 (17:16) | Journal | By: Colin McGinley

So it certainly didn’t take long from my last posting for EUR/USD to drop down to the area around 1.4250 that I had tagged as a potential buying point.
Last Thursday I put my toe back into the water with a buy at 1.4250. My luck was not in and I got stopped out as [...]