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Staying the course – results day three

Another day, another doughnut. The trend persisted and we bought and were then stopped out. However we stick to our plan – something almost all successful traders do. The campaign is now in profit by 1 pip, despite our 33% success rate. This illustrates the importance of a higher win to loss ratio. We’ll be back this afternoon, trading live.

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