doing good things today. 3 trades & im net 0.3% (2 losers) ... here is the summary of the trades from yesterday & today i've been hooting or moaning about (trying to help myself w/ my "winging" it habit i've been getting into & be more accountable ...

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... for some reason, i have the hardest time keeping my own story straight ... and by story, i mean, i make a plan & just 1 or 2 days into the week, i have managed to completely unravel it. mistakes i've made this week (re discipline) feelings of ...

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

EU trade was good for net gain of 0.9%

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

this all started when i was long the A/U and it whip-sawed short; after jumping into it shot, i panicked and canceled my orders on the G/U & G/J ... the market was rockin' and my A/U was doing fine, but in my haste, i canceled that one too. all told ...

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unfortunately, got a bit reckless & greedy perhaps & started messing w/ too many pairs. was wrong on one which means i was wrong on them all. to compound my troubles, missed my standard trade off the EURUSD which would be just as good as the one on ...

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no fear today. nice little USDJPY long for a quick net 1.2%

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

to compound the error, i got fixated on finding a short and missed the potential to jump in long on a pullback which would have completely corrected the first mistake ... cost = 1.5%

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market is sideways; NFP week. not going to expect much.

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

uggh ... second-guessed myself out of a long ... is probably going to re-test yesterday's high at a minimum. must get a grip on my second-guessing and simply pull the trigger. will take a break and return with better discipline.

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went the other way ... LOL; no gain, no loss looking at the USDJPY for a quick pullback

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topsy turvy trading after my last post, but ended the evening w/ another positive trade. total for this evening is 1.6%

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net on that trade is 1.2% ... have reversed and will see what happens

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... maybe not ... will see; might just put a 1-bar TSL on this & see where it goes.

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

just banked 0.6% on this one (had to use a wider SL, so pip value was less than normal) ... SL has been moved to a few pips below my entry and i will move it again b/c i think i am going to be going long again for the pullback. off to a good start.

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starting the week off w/ a quick "gap-fill" to re-test 3400 ... ... and a swing trade on the N/U (weekly) ... limit order placed using a TL break set-up on the daily ... (also, fundamentally, the US has gained strength in the last week so going w/ ...

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even a blind squirrel ... — my discipline finally paid off!! this trade held & netted me another 2.7% ... i did adjust my TP to yesterday's high instead of the original 3400 target (and it did reach 3400, but just barely & who knows how i ...

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well, picked off another trade for a quick 1%. should have been 1.2%, but i got screwed again by oanda's wonderful price overlay b.s. (screwed by 0.3 pips ... funny b/c on limit long trades i usually get screwed by the spread triggering my trade too ...

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basically, this was simply me being too conservative ... and not a 2% miss, but more like a 5+% miss. nevermind. not trying to repeat the mistake from last nite, another set-up came along & as much as i was tempted to over-analyze my way out of it, ...

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totally missed the action tonite. would have been good for at least another 2%. oh well. tomorrow.

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

didn't find anything of interest sunday. last nite i took a pullback on the EU & AU ... TL break signal on the EU got me thinking my EU & AU trades would fail. closed them both for very small losses & jumped into the EU on the break. was a winner. ...

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