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Trading price not indicators is key

Posted in Coffee, General commodities, Sugar, Your approach to the markets, tagged , , on January 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

I have had a look at some trading books in my collection and realized my preferred approach is to trade off price, not indicators, using trendlines, pattern breakouts. A copy of Curtis Arnold’s PPS Trading System and a video from Bennett McDowell’s Tradingcoach.com made me realise this. These two pattern recognition systems were [...]

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Commoditize your portfolio…

Posted in Coffee, Open positions, Sugar, tagged , , , , on February 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

From now on, due to time pressures I will have to post only on Friday a review of the week, and Sunday for a general Big Picture, “Kitchen Cabinet” overview.
Update on Coffee, well, letting profits run on this one, as it didn’t want to get stopped out in the week when I tightened stops. [...]

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Sugar trade

Posted in Sugar on February 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Now 326, buy stop at 331.  Approaching good buy area.

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Sugar trade

Posted in Sugar, tagged , on January 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

This was my first attempt at trading sugar and it went nicely. Initially I was thinking to open up a position to keep open hopefully to capture months of upside. Trading the London contract – as it is offered by Capitalspreads.com in the UK is an easy and low risk way to enter [...]

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