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My First Forex Position

Posted by Satuki On November - 27 - 2009

Today, the stock market was closed at 1pm. It was a volatile day and good for traders of both directions. As we can see, if you went long at the opening bell, you would make some money. You also could make money from the short side like I did. The market was better than I expected. I thought it would be off 300-400 points due to the Dubai news.

 

I am starting my Forex trading adventure on the side. I just had my first currency trade today. It was a bit unconventional since it was real money instead of a virtual postion like we do in a trading account. I had 140,000 JPY (Japanese Yen) I brought from Japan a few years ago.

 

JPY has moved up to a 14 year high, which I do not think is sustainable. So I bought some US dollars with that money at my bank, which actually ripped me off @1:91. And we all know the closing price of the USD/JPY pair is 86.467 as of 11/27/2009.

 

My Forex adventure is just for fun and it is going to be swing trading only.  Although I do not use leverage in stock trading.  I will in Forex. Interactive brokers will be my broker and platform.

USD/JPY 


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  • Dominik
    Hi, can you tell me with which software you did this chart? It looks great.
  • The chart was generated using TradeStation, which is one of its strengths
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