Inside bars are not bullish or bearish, they are a moment of pause or indecision in the market when energy builds up and so they can be a reversal or a continuation. If you are careful how you trade them, i.e. with the trend, and only use them as ...

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I can't speak for Strat because he is not up yet but ... I can tell you why I thought the USDCAD was good. The level was an important level and a fib level and so it is just a matter of waiting for the price action you want. The candle that closed ...

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The inside bar was valid and you traded it in the right direction. The thing is with this method is they are not all winners, in fact a lot of them are not, but the winners pay for the losers. If you follow Peter Crowns method then when you got to ...

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BoE rate decision tomorrow — The Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee rate decision / statement is tomorrow and sterling could see some moves. Analysts believe that they will leave it unchanged so focus will be on the statement if there ...

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The indices are falling, CNBC keeps talking about the "head and shoulders" pattern in the indices and its earnings season so the market is nervous. Increased risk aversion always drives money to the Yen. The commodities particularly were falling ...

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I like this short under the 95 round number Good luck us ...

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Stops are quite personal so having a plan for them that is within your comfort level is what counts, because then you will stick to it. I do mine differently to Strat and BabaG. I almost never move my stop to BE and I don't like the expression "free ...

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Chop chop — It's not just us who are not enjoying the chop ... url

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I respectfully disagree with the first comment ... Pullbacks to support resistance often occur on lower timeframes and then forming pinbars or inside bars which allow you entries to get back in and trade with the trend. Using the DIBS rule about ...

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I might be looking to buy at $60 Zuret ... Often after a 3 day US holiday you get a pullback or reversal and I would look for price action to short then. Nicola

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Crude — The weekly closed as a massive bearish engulfing bar, covering three previous weekly candles and the last daily candle broke the support at 66 which makes me fairly confident the correction will continue perhaps intially to the 62 ...

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Hi Matt, Matching highs and lows but other end inside the candle counts as inside bars so that EU one was valid. I stayed in trades yesterday for NFP. It seems that price action is usually right!! Nicola

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Over 90% of the way is a win Surfer! In this market I would take some profit off, it is too choppy. I would also double check my levels to see why it stopped where it did, if its something I did not see before I would decide based on that. In a big ...

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Crude — For the first time in a long time there looks to be a short opportunity in crude. Todays daily candle looks like a lower high (on closing prices) and the candle tails have made a double top. I see a possibility that crude may pull back ...

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EURJPY — Hi Alexandra Would you mind posting a chart of what you mean by this so I and others can see and learn? Thanks so much ...

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The week ahead — We could be in for some more chop and volatility this week Monday and Tuesday are the last couple of days of the quarter and believe or not some funds and managers leave it right to the end to rebalance which can cause some ...

Strat's Long Term Stress Free Trading

Silver and Gold — Here is silver daily chart, the weekly is a doji and the MA's are sideways. You might like to take a peak at Gold too.

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Something a girl can't pass on either ...

Strat's Long Term Stress Free Trading

Eastern Canada ... and I have been getting up for London open for 8 months. It was hard at first. In the winter I did Josh's two phase sleep thing but now its summer I like to have the afternoons to be outside or exercise. If I get to bed early ...

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