Pipcrawler

Pipcrawler

Every day, I try to find what I believe is the best-looking short-term currency trade setup for the upcoming trading day or week. If you're a forex newbie, it can be tricky trying to figure out how to look at charts and draw lines. My goal is to help you understand the psychology behind price movements in the foreign exchange markets, so you can learn to analyze your own currency charts and trade on your very own.

Articles by Pipcrawler

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

US Existing Home sale came out at 6.12M and Consumer Confidence came out at 104.0, both lower than forecasted by the market. This supports our long bias on GBP/USD, but unfortunately, the pullback to 1.9900 never occured to enter long in the market. With the current market over 100 points away from our entry, we will

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Pick of the Day: GBP/USD – Trade Closed

Okay, so I may be the one who was sleep deprived last night when I posted the “Pick” last night. There was an error in last night’s trade idea to go long at 2.0050. The pt was below the entry point! So, that trade is invalid. The short trade was valid and we were

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Pick of the Day: USD/CAD

For tonight’s “Pick,” we will take a look at the Loonie and the upcoming economic reports for Canada. Now, the momentum for the Loonie has been super strong, as we can see in USD/CAD. Will it continue? I think it should without a change in fundamentals and

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Pick of the Day: GBP/USD – Trade Closed

Here’s just a quick review on this trade. Our bullish outlook was correct at the time and our order to enter short was triggered during the early morning asian trading session. Cable picked up steam through out the morning Euro session and our position was

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Pick of the Day: CAD/JPY

Tonight we will look at CAD/JPY. We’ve seen a few factors today that may push the pair down to a great buying price to jump in the “Return of the Carry Trade” bonanza we’re seeing today. The bull run in oil took a breather today as tensions in Iran eased as

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Pick of the Day: USD/CHF – Stopped Out

It looks like fundamentals beat out technicals in our trade today as the bullish dollar sentiment pushed USD/CHF higher and higher through our resistance levels. With consumer data all stronger than expected as well as a strong Chicago PMI number out this morning, we should see the

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