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Ooops.

Today this trendline broke really fast, while I was eating lunch. I thought the euro was probably going to bounce off this line, and so I had set my stops too high.
Oh well. To look on the brightside, I'm back to square one which means all I've lost is two days in the trader contest.
After such a rapid rise there should be a period of consolidation, but the longer term analysis is that the price should rise back up towards the orange trendline, with the first level of resistance at around 1.18 (…
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Many interesting topics.

Humility is a virtue. Quite, dignified self-confidence is the mark of the civilised man, while boasting is for those who project outwards arrogance because they lack inner assertiveness.
Having said that,
I'm number one! I'm number one! Woo hoo!
Now I have reached 1st financial position in the trader contest, I might still do some trading to keep my lead intact and help towards the quarterly performance contest, but the main obstacle to my coming first in terms of points in the trader contest is…
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Mostly success, and one failed prediction.

Today I reached 600k trader contest for the first time, thanks to my previous prediction about a USD/JPY correction. I did then act somewhat sub-optimally during the rapid spikes around 2:30-3 GMT. The problem is a mixture of insufficient time to think, and that predictors which are normally valid are not necessarly valid during times of very high volatility. Rapid spikes are the most important aspect to prepare for, as you simply don't have time to think.
Today's predictions remain mostly the s…
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