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This was a perfect week to be playing video games online, and avoiding trading in the short term. If you are a short term, EUR or NY session trader, it was a tough week. Maybe you ended the week profitable, but we simply didn't get the breakouts that we have been getting recently. There are reasonable explanations for all of this, but the point is really that some weeks are going to be better for trading than others.

Here's Danny's high score on the Biz-Nizzle Card Game:

Happy Trading! Next week should be much better. Watch for more USD strength in advance of the FOMC rate hike the last week this month.

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Posted by Rob at 08:03 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0) ..............................................................................................................................................

Way to go, Mikey! I am sending Mike a copy of Kathy Lien's book, Day Trading the Currency Market. If he already has Kathy's book, he is now going to have two copies! Wooohoo! One for the bathroom!

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Posted by Rob at 04:34 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0) ..............................................................................................................................................

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The highest score I've seen so far is 67 (by me). If you can get higher than 200, I have a special prize for you (and it is not a lame prize). Send in a screen shot if you can do it. If I get there first, I'll post it here. Enjoy!

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Posted by Rob at 01:19 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0) ..............................................................................................................................................

When we have trading euphoria, we start to trade huge lot sizes, take too many trades, and we do it all because we think that we are unstoppable. And we feel like we have a bunch of pips that we just earned, and we're going to take those pips out for a ride. Next thing you know, we've ridden them to the garbage dump.

Keep your gains! Keep your gains! Gaining pips is easy. Keeping them is tough.

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