swing trades were U/J (used H1 to enter & was stopped out); AU (running & in the black); UCAD (i hedged my direction, but only the short is left as a limit order); G/J (also hedged, neither triggered); E/J shot (not triggered) that's it for my ...

go live or bust ... diary of an fx live-trader-wannabe

price climbed just shy of my 1/2-off target; saw it race up & i was going to manually close instead of letting my limit order do its thing (oanda problem), but i couldn't get it timed in time & price dipped by 10 pips so i manually closed it there & ...

go live or bust ... diary of an fx live-trader-wannabe

poker is a game of mistakes ... and making less than your opponents. the forex is no different. tonite can be summed up as the net result of my mistakes. jumped out of a trade on a reversal that was not within my game plan. then i was back in the ...

go live or bust ... diary of an fx live-trader-wannabe

wow, i made this happen. pulled the trigger & stuck to the game plan & it paid off. 1/2 off for 0.8% net gain. SL at b/e. aiming for 3100.

go live or bust ... diary of an fx live-trader-wannabe

finally pulled the trigger. decent enough trade, but true to form, pre-euro & euro open is proving challenging. have not hit the panic button & reverse & i dont plan to b/c it will be hard for me to stay up so i can manage it. (doesn't seem likely a ...

go live or bust ... diary of an fx live-trader-wannabe

got up to watch the market after UK/london closed. this set-up presented itself, but i didn't take it. it wasn't specifically a conscious "fail to pull the trigger" issue, but i do recall thinking about waiting or thinking the AO would confirm. ...

go live or bust ... diary of an fx live-trader-wannabe

that one hit my final target for another 1.8% for a total 2.6% ... net for the day would have been 2.4% (3.2% for the week so far) ...

go live or bust ... diary of an fx live-trader-wannabe

decided to blow off trading this evening and play some poker w/ the old geezers. dealer's choice for quarters. as i result i missed a loser for -1% (at most) and entry on a TL break (presently would be open & doing fine). the prior trade i missed ...

go live or bust ... diary of an fx live-trader-wannabe

completely missed the TL break i was watching. waited and watched for an hour or two, set alarms and everything, then stepped away and missed the alarms and the entire move. was good for a move to my 1/2 position off target. oh well, waiting for the ...

go live or bust ... diary of an fx live-trader-wannabe

this is how the market was trading when i jumped into the TL break/ADX/15min pullback trade last nite. in hindsight, the double top at the 00 level was fairly obvious. i got spooked at the market open as i stated, but i did have those twinges of ...

go live or bust ... diary of an fx live-trader-wannabe

G/U came w/in 3 pips of my 5500 target & bounced off. had to get up early for a meeting & took what was left. A/U didn't get anywhere & i closed out for a very small profit. E/J was a loser, but i had traded w/ very small lots & ended up w/ only a ...

go live or bust ... diary of an fx live-trader-wannabe

i bailed at b/e. im not really comfortable trading into the euro/UK open as lots of funky things happen. my trade already zipped down 15 pips and up 25 pips ... i really dont need that grief. since the direction is unclear, im packing it in w/ my ...

go live or bust ... diary of an fx live-trader-wannabe

doubled up on another pullback, but cut short on a TL break so i reversed. net total for the pullbacks was 0.9% to the positive. not sure about the TL break (i never am), but followed the rules & that's that. dont think i can manage to stay up for ...

go live or bust ... diary of an fx live-trader-wannabe

basic set-up ... (quite frankly, it feels quite amateurish compared to your method for trading oil, but anyway, here it is). cheers.

go live or bust ... diary of an fx live-trader-wannabe

G/U is on too.

go live or bust ... diary of an fx live-trader-wannabe

sure. give me a couple minutes.

go live or bust ... diary of an fx live-trader-wannabe

have been rewarded for my discipline! 1/2 pxn off at 3385. SL to b/e. target is 3461, but might adjust lower depending on how the market progresses during the HK session. i thought so much this weekend about how i could consistently pull the trigger ...

go live or bust ... diary of an fx live-trader-wannabe

miracles never cease. pulled the trigger on my intraday E/U ... yay.

go live or bust ... diary of an fx live-trader-wannabe

caught E/J & A/U on the hourly. watching the G/U for an entry.

go live or bust ... diary of an fx live-trader-wannabe

wa. oanda's 10 pip weekend spread dumped me out. watching AU, EJ, GU today on the daily charts.

go live or bust ... diary of an fx live-trader-wannabe