last week's efforts were mixed. swing trades on daily/weekly charts (G/U, N/U, G/J) successful ... intraday trading poor. demonstrated i could be extremely disciplined however, the old "tilt" factor did come into play near the end of the week. ...

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

ended the week with a small loss. took a small step back, but with so many steps forward, feeling good and ready to roll ... probabilities is my motto this week.

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

sunday had 2 b/e trades. should have made much more, but was goofing around w/ other pairs on other TF's monday (tonite's) netted me 0.9% ... 4 wins, 1 b/e, and 2 losses.

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NFP tomorrow ... the market typically turns into a soupy mess gearing up for the announcement & usually during the asian & euro markets preceding it. i have attempted to trade in the pre-NFP mud & muck in the past, but was never pleased w/ the ...

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

well ... i exited both trades. one for 54.5 pips and the other for 41.1 pips. net 4.8% & 3%. very excited about the prospects for these tailored entries & TSL's. no more trading tonite.

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

i also have an N/U swing trade that hit free trade status & is up 60 pips or so, but im trailing that on the daily so we'll see how that fairs.

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

things going very well tonite. decided to go with pairs i thought had a good chance for me to trail my stop loss into profit ... found EURUSD, AUDUSD, NZDUSD, & USDCAD ... eliminated the CAD simply b/c i have never seen consistent volume to sustain ...

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presently, my TSL plan would be 2 pips ahead of where i bailed.

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

poor performance tonite ... had a plan to trade the bounce off 3650 (market is ranging so badly re indecision greece or whatever it is ... seemed obvious that once it hit 3600/3650, it was headed for another small dive) ... entered as planned BUT ...

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

very sideways market tonite. 1 b/e (bailed); 1 small loss; 1 win (bailed here too when market shot up & ran into the 50 level) ...

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

assumptions ... urrgh -- made one & failed to pull the trigger on my set-up. entry potential at 3613 ... b/e reached. will follow to practice my exits.

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

managed to screw things up a bit ... next trade i entered 5 minutes before aussie rate announcement ... total noob move. larger loss than i would have liked. thankfully, i was able to jump out by reversing my position & shaved a bit off the last ...

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

out. 0.6% net gain.

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

locked in for 8.2 pips ... hope to get a bit of mileage out of this back to 3500.

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

no idea what this is all about, but i got into this on the earlier pullback & got lucky on my timing (nothing newsworthy that i could find that might be causing this) ...

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

locked in for profit. going to be a positive evening. will not try anymore if/when this one is done. see you tomorrow.

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

that one didn't hold ... small loss. found another. TL break. prolly my last attempt for a runner tonite. overall, kept my emotions in check over the missed opps & the small loss so giving myself an A- on my efforts tonite.

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

uggh. missed the re-entry i was planning on taking ... stinkin' over-thinkin' (is the reason i suspect) ... okay. no tragedy yet. found another place to jump in, so im sweatin' this one presently. kiwi/aussie close is not my favorite place to begin ...

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

out w/ 0.5% net gain. was going to jump into the TL break (rules provided for this), but i second-guessed it (thinking i wanted to make sure it was reversing on the 5 minute or something ...); anyway, will see if the market pulls back & continues ...

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

TSL moves me into the black ... the market might pullback & shake me out, but if that happens, i will look for a re-entry at the higher price.

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