Quote from NO:1 OILTRADER:
Hi spanish89,
Please dont stop, i have been following you on here for months, well, since i started trading oil that is. I need a litttle help with my stops, i got in where you did but unlike you i lost money...again. i just cant believe my luck, i enterd the trade adn almost immiediately went against me. i take it you are still holdign this oil long, wish i could do the same as its now gone back up, like it just touched my stop then shot in the right direction.
I have also sent you a private message as i would like to know what i need to do to get this right.
thanks.
Meli.
Aloha, no i ditched the trade about 20mins ago at the top of taht high spike to 44.76.. (sorry)
I dumped it cos oil does follow dow 5second/5second moves.., and so i always keep dow 1min chart on 1 side of my screen, oil chart other side.
And the reason i felt so comfortable using such a big stoploss on that trade when i entered was-
I knew it was likely oil was gna fall through that support and could touch the 43.26 at worst,
however i knew that if the dow held and rose oil would start teh bounce way before.
Dow: Dow fell about 500points straight over yesterday and today, majour support at 8262, market at 8356 roughly, upside room up to 200+ as that would still just be breakeven, and would still leave it down 300.
So i knew upside majourly outweighed downside for dow, especially since the car news they were priced into dow already about 4weeks ago, and so this 2nd pricing was weak anways i knew, and it came overnight already.
So thats why i knew i could do whatevery i wanted when going long on oil as the risk was very low, extremely likely to bounce to near what target was even if it did fall down to what could have been its worst case scenario (43.26),
and so i added my longs at just 31 n £2 tick as oil fell, not big adds, so managed to get all £9 longs in at average of 44.44 after the spread too.
Il read and reply to your pm now btw...