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At the end of each trading day, I will find what I believe is the best looking short term trade setup for the upcoming trading day. If you're a forex newbie, it can be tricky in the beginning trying to figure out how to look at charts and draw lines. My goal is help you understand the psychology of price movements so you can learn to analyze your own charts and trade on your very own. Trades will be posted by 1 am ET, Monday through Thursday evening.

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Pick of the Day: GBP/USD - Close Open Orders

Close Open Orders: 2008-04-29 10:48

Cable fell during the morning European trading session on weak UK data, most notably the UK CBI trade data and mortgage data.

Unfortunately, we didn't get a rise higher to catch a better price on our short position, so we missed out on the move lower. Since we missed it and the as the end of the Euro/US session overlap ending soon I will close all open orders to short GBP/USD. No trade.

Trade Idea: 2008-04-28 20:41

PoD Chart

Hello! Tonight, we have a potential short trade on Cable as the pair continues to move lower.

On the chart, we can see the pair approach the trendline drawn from the high around 2.04, hit back around March, to the peaks recently hit around 2.02. It has found resistance there twice before, so there is a good chance we may see a response if the market trades near the trendline once again. Stochastics are showing the pair may be overbought in the short term as well.

We do have event risk tomorrow with the data out of the UK and comments from BOE Gervernor King. Out of the US, we have consumer confidence data, expected to be lower once again. With a potential of higher volatility, I look to short near the psychologically significant level of 2.0000, if the pair reaches that high.

Short GBP/USD at 2.0000, stop at 2.0100, pt1 at 1.9900, pt2 at 1.9700

Remember to never risk more than 1% of your account on any single trade. Adjust position sizes accordingly.

Stay tuned...good luck and good trading!

Comments (5)

Sorry to ask, So is this a Pending Sell Order? Coz since yesterday....didn't reach 2000 yet? Or I am wrong?
Probably too late :0( The highest price was 1.9963 Already went down after data out of UK. Only wonder where is a resistance for that move, any thoughts ???
thx
Looks like Cable is gonna hang around 1.97 for now. I probably won't put up any big positions ahead of tomorrow's Fed interest rate decision.
test for time 10:29 am

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