Thank You Semper :-)

Emporia's Trading Journal 2013

OK after doing more analysis on my charts I have updated my watch list to the following: AUDJPY USDJPY NZDJPY GBPJPY EURJPY CHFJPY CADJPY USDCHF NZDCHF GBPCHF AUDCHF CADCHF EURNZD EURCAD EURUSD EURAUD The common theme seems to be Eur strength, Yen ...

Emporia's Trading Journal 2013

OK so the longer term trades that I am looking at for the first few weeks of 2013 are: Long NZDJPY GBPJPY EURJPY USDJPY AUDJPY EURCAD EURUSD EURNZD EURAUD EURGBP NZDCAD Short GBPCHF USDCHF Now I know that there are a lot there and I completely don't ...

Emporia's Trading Journal 2013

Thank you everyone for your input. All valid points... The reason I bring it up is it was something I was pondering with my trading... but as Trader_V put it... I think it is more a case of being happy to take a lesser risk reward if that is all the ...

Negative risk reward ratios

Merry Christmas Everyone

Emporia's Trading Journal 2013

Hi Genie, Thank you for stopping by. I will also follow your thread as you are doing exactly what it is that I am trying to achieve! You input would invaluable to me :-) Emporia

Emporia's Trading Journal 2013

I trade both long term and short term. The entry criteria on both are very similar. The only real difference is with the longer term stuff I tend to take more input from the fundamentals than I do with the shorter term stuff. I try to play out ...

Emporia's Trading Journal 2013

Hopefully I will be joining you all very soon. I have decided over this holiday period that I can't continue forever with Trading as a hobby! It needs to become a serious business or I need to accept that I will concentrate on my career and just use ...

I finally quit my day job!

I have an update to my plans for the future. There is a good chance that my contract will come to an end in April and I have decided that I will use this as an opportunity to see if I can trade for a living completely, without the safety net. Up ...

Trading To Make An Income

I haven't posted in a a month... not because I haven't wanted to but because I haven't traded... not properly anyway... I have had to focus on some other things... Anyway I fully intend in the New Year to pick this up again. I think I will post my ...

Trading To Make An Income

So I haven't been able to trade today and missed the afternoon yesterday. But looking at the charts this evening it appears I would have missed a whopping 7 winning trades across all of the instruments I trade! That is 7 winners and not one loser! ...

Trading To Make An Income

That BE trade would since have stopped me out had I held it...

Trading To Make An Income

Thanks for the advice! So I have decided that I will post my results each day to keep a track of what I am doing, but as well as my real results I am also going to keep a hindsight track record so it will be easy for me to measure where things are ...

Trading To Make An Income

Another good days trading... What is going on here, I am following rules, remaining disciplined... I like the new me :-) The only thing that is bugging me now is my inability to hold a position. I took 1:1 on every trade I took today but a few of ...

Trading To Make An Income

Interesting days trading. Took a loss from my only trade on the GER30 late in the day. But had a win on the EURUSD earlier on so ended up around where I started. It was actually quite a good days trading as I really stuck to my system and trades ...

Trading To Make An Income

I trade with very small position sizes for the larger time frame stuff

Trading To Make An Income

I don't really know :-) Just making conversation. Sorry.

Trading To Make An Income

OK so lets give you all a little information about the way I trade. I day trade for cash flow and I swing trade to grow my retirement portfolio. For my swing trading I focus mainly on the day charts but can enter from a 4 hour chart. I look for ...

Trading To Make An Income