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I closed my open orders for a short position on EUR/USD today as a surprise downgrade on Greece from S&P sent the euro tumbling. Here’s a review of today’s price action.

What an exciting week for the comdolls! It would’ve been an exciting week for me too had I taken the best setup for the week and won 10% on the trade. Yep, that’s right, ten percent!

After being a little too aggressive in my trading last week, here’s a setup on EUR/JPY that would’ve given me a bunch of pips even if I had played it conservatively.

I was sooooooooo close to not posting this. I did not want to announce to the whole world that my trade lost. But a girl trader’s gotta do what a girl’s gotta do! I won’t learn anything otherwise!

Oh no, not again! Just when I thought I was able to join the uptrend at such a good price, the tide turned and AUD/USD sank like a heavy rock. Well, my heart sank too after my trade got stopped out!

…if so, time to jump on the correction higher as prices reach for the 20 period SMA. This rally has carried the USD/CHF to the 50% Fibonacci Retracement of the April 19 high to May 5 low.

By now, you all probably know that I got a very painful loss on EUR/USD yesterday. I decided to take a break from the markets, cool off, and focus instead on how my HLHB system has been doing in the last couple of weeks that I wasn’t able to forward-test it.

There are times when you trade too conservatively, and there are times when you trade too aggressively. This trade was one of the latter.

Good evening evening! It was a wild day in the markets as weak economic data and Trichet’s comments sent risk aversion flows into overdrive. It took Cable down to my long entry levels, but unfortunately previous major support wasn’t able to push risk aversion back.

After holding on to the trade for almost a week, I finally got stopped out yesterday. What a sad, sad day it is for little noobie Huck!

Aaaand my losing streak comes to an end! While this “win” wasn’t as big as I hoped, I’m so happy that my trailing stop saved the day again. Read on to find out how it all played out.

Well I guess that’s that for my Guppy trade! The Fib levels finally gave way as the pair dropped like a hot potato early this morning. Read up on how it all went down!

I’m returning to the on-going discussion we’ve had regarding the Channel Up, mark up trend, and the swing buy I’ve been watching/waiting on the 240-minute EUR/USD. On April 26 and 29 I brought up my strategy for a swing buy and also my shift to an intraday entry because of the near-term support that the EUR/USD is seeing.

Oohlala, how could I have missed this one? Have you seen the Fibs galore on AUD/USD last week? If you haven’t, then here’s my best comdoll setup of the week just for you!

Look who’s back on top! Stealing the show from other crosses and breaking EUR/GBP’s two-week streak is GBP/JPY with this nice little breakout play! Check it out, bros!

The downtrend is not letting up in the USD/CAD so far as the Asian session has opened for the week and the loonie continues to hammer the dollar. Not completely surprising the the slight bounce being seen on the daily time frame.

On April 26 I wrote about the patience I was exercising in waiting for exhaustion to possible drive the daily EUR/USD to my sweet spot for a swing buy entry. But what do you do when the market simply won’t come back to you? It can be maddening and that’s where common trading mistakes begin to manifest.

If you’re the type who reads my posts but never comments, then this update is for you! Yes, you little rascal you!

Oh no, not another loss! I guess I’m not as lucky in day trades as I had imagined. Well, not while I’m thinking of a long weekend vacation, anyway. Find out what happened!

Looks like lady luck was on my side today as my long Cable day trade managed to pull out positive pips. Check out today’s price action and my trade review after the jump!