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: USD/CAD (again)

I was taking a look at the charts and saw USDCAD, and I said to myself, “Self, let’s go for the same trade one more time!” So that’s what I’m doing again today except with the 200 SMA. I’m shorting USDCAD when it touches 200 SMA, going for 10 pips first, and my aggressive profit …

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Pick of the Day: USD/CAD

USDCAD has been in a down trend and has been bouncing down off the 50 SMA along the way. I see the pair making a break up to 100 SMA and then possibly coming back down. So, for this trade I’m just going to have watch and make the trade when it touches the 100 …

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Pick of the Day: EUR/JPY

(Click on chart to enlarge) The EURJPY is making lower lows on the 1 hour chart. I like a short trade at or below the 50 SMA (142.00). I drew the Fib line to show 3 points of resistance: 50 SMA, 50% Fib line, and the pivot point. Plus the pair is already below the …

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Trade Review: AUD/USD

First let’s take a look at the chart: As you can see the pair never broke down past the 50 SMA, so a short trade never developed. Now I did make a side that if it broke above the 200 SMA it would probably make a move to the upside. If you played that you …

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Pick of the Day: EUR/JPY

Check out this chart on the EURJPY: The EURJPY has been trending upwards since it bounced off the 200 SMA on the daily chart. Here on the one hour chart we are going to take advantage of a retracement and continue the ride on up! With fib retracements I usually like to set my entry …

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Pick of the Day: NZD/USD

Here’s my pick of the day. Let’s take a look at the hourly chart for NZDUSD: As you can see, with NZDUSD having trouble breaking above the 100 SMA to the upside and the pair in a downtrend, we’re going to look for a short trade. We are looking to go short at 0.6813 with …

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Trade Review: AUD/USD

Let’s review yesterday’s trade. Well, it looks like AUDUSD hit our entry point of 0.7498. First, the good news. If you were less aggressive and went for 10 pips your profit target would’ve been hit. The bad news, if you’re aggressive like me, is that you would’ve been stopped out at 0.7525. Here’s the chart: …

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Pick of the Day: AUD/USD

Today we have a daily chart of the AUDUSD: As you can see the pair is in a downward channel. The top of a channel is a strong resistance point, and with the 200 SMA there as well it looks like the pair is having trouble pushing upwards and may turn downwards. To get ready …

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Trade Rules:

Trade lots in multiples of 2. Recommendations will include entry point, initial stop-loss level, first profit target (PT1) and second profit (PT2). When PT1 is reached, close half of the open position. From here you can do one of two things – move the stop for the other half to breakeven point (this will lock …

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People who succeed have momentum. The more they succeed, the more they want to succeed, and the more they find a way to succeed. Similarly, when someone is failing, the tendency is to get on a downward spiral that can even become a self-fulfilling prophecy.Tony Robbins