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: AUD/USD

On Friday, we saw the pair trade higher during the euro session and our short trade was triggered. Unfortunately, the pair just going higher and we were stopped out a couple of hours after the trade triggered. Lot 1: -30 pips Lot 2: -30 pips Total: -60 pips P.S. – Don’t forget to check out …

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Trade Review: EUR/USD

Well, the ECB raised rates 25 basis points to 2.75% and we did not see the highly unlikely raise of 50 basis points that would have caused EUR/USD to hit our entry. After the report was released we saw the dollar gain a lot of ground today, and it moved far, far away from our …

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Pick of the Day: AUD/USD

The US dollar has been gaining some ground against the Aussie dollar, so I’ve decided to jump in the downtrend of this pair. The pair has tested the .7400 handle, retraced, and it’s back down again, barely keeping it’s head about that level. Because AUD/USD is in a downtrend I’m looking for a short play …

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Trade Review: EUR/JPY

We saw further correction in the pair last night, and it was enough to trigger our long play at 144.76. Soon after the entry, pt1 was hit, while it took the rest of the trading day for the pair to reach pt2. Good job to those who caught some pips! Lot1: +22 pips Lot2: +48 …

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Pick of the Day: EUR/USD

Usually, I don’t ever really touch this currency pair for my “Pick of the Day” because it’s Big Pippin’s thing, but how could I pass up a trade on it with an ECB interest rate decision tomorrow morning! Now all the markets pundits are saying that a 25 basis point rate hike is “guaranteed,” while …

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Trade Review: NZD/USD

As suspected, we saw dollar buying at the beginning of the euro session open. Shortly after the open there was a strong reversal, but not enough to hit our stop loss level. Dollar buying resumed and we saw pt1 hit, and then we closed our position at 5 pm EST. Hopefully, everyone caught some pips! …

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Pick of the Day: EUR/JPY

We see the euro trending higher against the yen in the past few weeks on the back of positive economic reports out of the euro zone. The pair has hit the top of the channel drawn, so I’m looking to enter long with the trend with a retracement down at the bottom of the middle …

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Pick of the Day: NZD/USD

We have a pretty good looking chart on NZD/USD tonight. As you can see on the left of the chart, there was a pretty strong move in favor of the US dollar against the New Zealand dollar. I drew a Fibonacci retracement and it looks like the pair retraced back to the 61% fib line …

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Trade Review: USD/CHF

The Non-Farm Payroll report came worse than expected….way worse! The number of jobs created was a very low 75K, way below the consensus of 170K. It seems the US economy seems to be slowing down which is bad news for the US dollar. The market is now going to be on the lookout for the …

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