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 Reviews

AUD/USD Pair has hit the bottom of the channel for a total of 157 pips. Exited trade. NZD/USD Well, the pair moved down as expected and made my entry criteria. Now depending on where you got in and your brokers’ prices you may have gotten stopped out with the 20 pips stop. If you didn’t …

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Pick of the Day: USD/CAD

Kinda tough to pick out a trade tonight, especially with a lack of news reports, but I think I found one. If the loonie decides to head south I will enter a trade short at 1.1630. I will have a 20 pips stop at 1.1650. My first profit target is going to be 1.1590. Once …

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Trade Reviews

EUR/JPY Didn’t hit entry point. No longer watching this trade. NZD/USD No candle close below the fib line. No Trade. USD/CAD The loonie made a big run from the entry point of about 95 pips. Hopefully, those who took the trade had a trailing stop and took some profit as it came 5 pips from …

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Pick of the Day: NZD/USD

Today’s chart is on NZDUSD once again! It’s still in a down trend with a slight retracement, so let’s see if we can get in and grab a few pips! Tomorrow NZD will be releasing its QoQ GDP report at 5:45 pm EST. I expect range trading until the report, but often times traders will …

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Pick of the Day: NZD/USD

This pair has been in a serious downtrend. Let’s see if we can partake in the pip party! By the arrow I have drawn you can see that the 0.750 fib extension level and the S1 line are lining up nicely. Also, it’s right at the 0.6200 price level. Price levels ending in double zeros …

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Trade Review: EUR/JPY

Here’s a quick review of my only pick after my break last week. It looks like I underestimated the move of the E-12 CPI report and picked out the wrong resistance point at the R2 line. It’s okay. It’s another important lesson learned on gauging news reports, and I limited the loss to only 20 …

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Pick of the Day: EUR/JPY

Here’s a one hour chart on EURJPY. Tomorrow morning at approximately 5:00 am EST the E-12 Consumer Price Index report is coming out. I’m looking for support and resistance in the areas pointed out at the chart. On the resistance side I like a sell order at 142.05 with a stop at 142.25. Going for …

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Trade Review: EUR/JPY

The pair moved up to within 2 pips the R1 line and moved down again. I took the entry order off before 8:00 am EST as suggested before the Non-Farm Payroll Report at 8:30 am EST. No trade.

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Pick of the Day: EUR/JPY

Here’s a daily chart of EURJPY. As I’ve mentioned before, the EUR has been range bound, so I’m looking to do a resistance play. I will enter an order short at approximately 143.50 on the EURJPY with at 50 pip stop and target the top of the middle channel (dotted line). USD/CAD This pair has …

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Week in Review

We had 3 trades entered this week. Two winners and one loser. Take a look: Day Pair First Target Second Target Monday NZD/USD +10 +21 Tuesday USD/CHF -30 -30 Wednesday EUR/JPY +10 +10 No suggest 2nd Target Thursday EUR/JPY No trade No trade TOTAL -10 +1 Unfortunately, that 30 pip stop loss killed the profits …

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