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

Trade Review: USD/CAD

Early in the morning, before the US markets started trading we saw a spike in the pair. It triggered the short entry order at 1.1150. Unfortunately, the 30 pips stop wasn’t enough to weather the whipsaw. Actually it wasn’t enough by 3 pips!!! Doh!!! After the stop out, the pair dropped back down to hit …

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Month in Review

06/01/06 – 06/02/06 +00 pips 06/05/06 – 06/09/06 +41 pips 06/12/06 – 06/16/06 -77 pips 06/19/06 – 06/23/06 +146 pips 06/26/06 – 06/30/06 -28 pips June Total: +82 pips

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Pick of the Day: USD/CAD

USD/CAD has been ranging between 1.1300 and 1.100, and it looks like it’s in a downward trend at the moment. After today’s US interest rate hike the pair made a strong move downward and I believe we may see a continuation of that move during the euro session. I’m thinking one of two scenarios may …

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Trade Review: GBP/USD

The Fed raised rates from 5.00% to 5.25%, and as expected with a 25 bps raised the dollar fell. Within the hour GBP/USD gained almost 200 pips, but to be honest I stayed out of the trade due to the fact that the pair drifted farther and farther away from our long entry point at …

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Trade Review: EUR/JPY

We had a profitable trade today as EUR/JPY bounced back up as soon as it hit our entry point at 145.70. In just a couple of hours we saw it hit pt1 for +20 pips, while we had to wait until 5 pm EST to close lot 2 for +52 pips. Congrats to those went …

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Pick of the Day: GBP/USD

Please read entire post! Tomorrow is a big day as traders have been anticipating the FOMC rate decision for what seems like forever now. We’ve seen much debate in the media (from economists, market pundits, traders, etc.) and quite frankly, it’s still up in the air on what will happen tomorrow. Market consensus is calling …

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Pick of the Day: EUR/JPY

Without any significant economic reports tomorrow, I had to look for a purely technical play. Because of the lack of reports, I expect low volatility and range trading, but I think I’ve found a nice play in EUR/JPY. We’ve been watching the euro rising again and I think with a correction we can jump into …

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Pick of the Day: NZD/USD

For those of you who have been watching NZD/USD, you’ve seen a considerable drop in this pair, and now that it’s broken the previous daily low of 0.6141 we should see a further decline. Today’s new home sales report was a surprise of 1.23 million new homes, in which the market was expecting a decline. …

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Pick of the Day: NZD/USD

For those of you who have been watching NZD/USD, you’ve seen a considerable drop in this pair, and now that it’s broken the previous daily low of 0.6141 we should see a further decline. Today’s new home sales report was a surprise of 1.23 million new homes, in which the market was expecting a decline. …

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