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Financial Trading Patterns #8: TRAILING STOP SELL

Nov 30, 2011 at 5:26 pm in Orders by · Leave a Comment »

In this article I describe a financial trading pattern that is motivated by a failure scenario of the STOP BUY, STOP SELL pattern.

Financial Trading Patterns #7: TRAILING STOP BUY

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In this article I describe a financial trading pattern that is motivated by a failure scenario of the STOP BUY, STOP SELL pattern.

Financial Trading Patterns #6: STOP BUY, STOP SELL

Nov 29, 2011 at 7:26 pm in Orders by · Leave a Comment »

This is the second article in which I combine two previously-defined trading patterns in order to create a more complex composite trading pattern.

Trading Trail #19: The Continuing Story of Thomas Cook

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If you recall I had established a position in Thomas Cook at a gapped-down price of 20p and had then “averaged down” by establishing a second position at an even lower price 11p.

Financial Trading Patterns #4: STOP BUY

Nov 28, 2011 at 5:47 pm in Orders by · Leave a Comment »

In this article I describe the STOP BUY trading pattern that utilises a stop order to buy, and in the next article I describe the more familiar (to most people) STOP SELL trading pattern that uses a stop order to sell.

Trading Trail #18: Almost Spent Up!

Nov 27, 2011 at 5:44 pm in Trading Diary by · Leave a Comment »

Having begun this real-life position spread trading project with £1000 of Trading Resources and no open positions, at this point I find myself with almost 50 positions — most at £1-per-point, a few at £2-per-point

Financial Trading Patterns #3: LIMIT BUY, LIMIT SELL

Nov 25, 2011 at 5:21 pm in Orders by · Leave a Comment »

This is the first article in which I will combine two of the previously-defined financial trading patterns — LIMIT BUY and LIMIT SELL — so as to create a composite pattern called LIMIT BUY, LIMIT SELL.

Financial Trading Patterns #2: LIMIT SELL

Nov 24, 2011 at 9:28 pm in Orders by · Leave a Comment »

In the previous Financial Trading Patterns article I documented the LIMIT BUY trading pattern, and in this article I document its complement: the LIMIT SELL trading pattern.

Trading Trail #17: Price Gaps and Guaranteed Stops

Nov 23, 2011 at 5:03 pm in Trading Diary by · Leave a Comment »

Did you see how far the price of Thomas Cook shares gapped-down yesterday? I wasn’t holding any position in Thomas Cook, but I took the gap-down as my cue…

Financial Trading Patterns #0

Nov 22, 2011 at 3:47 pm in Orders by · Leave a Comment »

If you’re wondering why I’ve numbered this first-in-a-series article #0 rather #1, it’s because in this article I want to introduce the idea of financial trading patterns.

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