re-calculation of the initial investment and other finetuning — I re-think the setup last night and realize I will need to make some further adjustments. 1. I set 50% margin (1:50 leverage) to be used as the initial investment. This is way to ...

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Sept 26th Update — Account value: $61,000 YTD P/L: 13% I will from now on only document the % change for the account.

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Sept 15th Update — account value: $60,450 YTD P/L: 11% long EUR/USD

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August 7th Update — Account value: $59.990.00 YTD P/L: 10% Currently long EUD/USD

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August 2nd Update — Finally filled the hole caused by the Eur/USD moves down and then back up. Account value: $59,400 YTD P/L: 9% Not something to be proud of...

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March 17th Update — Account value: $57,450 YTD %P/L: 5.1% The growth is slow...by this rate, the annualized return would be around 20% or so. Maybe I need to explore other ways by allocating some small amount capitals in another sub account.

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March 9th Update — I took a few trades on EUR/USD, GBP/USD and AUD/USD, all longs with small T/P targets (20~25pips), because these pairs are in a range for some time. Account value: $57,129 YTD P/L%: 4.8%

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March 5th Update — I took a long vacation with the whole families to Australia. What an AMAZING country!!!! There were not many trades between now and the last update. Account value: $56,901 YTD %P/L: +4.2%

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Feb 5th Update — I gave back most of the gain on Friday. The move in USD forced 4 positions out in losses. Account value: $55,933 MTD %P/L: -0.16% YTD %P/L: +2.39%

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Trading Strategy — I used Forex Strategy Builder to develop and test a few different strategies, which fits my personal style and situation. I find this is a very useful tool. It gives some basic back testing capability with some money ...

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Feb 3rd Update — Closed S AUD/USD, S GBU/USD, S EUR/USD and L USD/CHF in profits. Account value: $56,882 MTD %P/L: 1.53% YTD %P/L: 4.13%

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Feb 2nd Update — I was lucky with AUD/USD today. AUD/USD had some wild swing today due to the news. I had both long and short AUD/USD closed in profits. Account value: $56,564 MTD %P/L: 0.96% YTD %P/L: 3.55%

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Feb 1st Update — The first day of the month was not bad. There are 4 trades in total, all closed in profits. Account value: $56,435 MTD %P/L: +0.73% YTD %P/L: +3.3%

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Jan Update — The last week of January was bumpy. There were several trades closed in losses. January month end account value: $56,025 January %P/L: 2.6%

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Jan 28th update — Account value: 56,590 MTD P/L%: +3.6%

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Jan 27th Update — I am traveling so was only able to make a few trades, all profitable. Account value: 56,432 MTD %: 3.3%

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Jane 22 update — Closed a few trades in profits. It seems the USD is regaining its momentum. Account value: 55,905 MTD %: 2.3%

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Jan 19th Update — There are two trades (EUR/USD and USD/CHF ) closed with loss. Account value: 55,650 % MTD: +1.89% I read something interesting on money management. The concept is to use variable capital allocation based on latest performance ...

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Jan 18th Update — Closed two trades with some profits. One open position short USD/CHF at 1.0258. Account value: 55,810 MTD %: +2.17%

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