turns out my % price retracement method for trailing stop would have kept me in & i'd still be in & locked in for an additional 9 pips ...

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

2 trades taken in sub 1 ... (did not want to break rules & trade in the goals account during off hours) ... 1st was a pullback, 2nd was a 1-2-3/FE ...net 2.1% ... essentially, i'd be done for the day ... on the last trade, oanda didn't take out my ...

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

what you can do is remove the pips column entirely. to extend it for several years, just copy the formula as far down as you need to.

Looking for a Compound Interest Spreadsheet

i have it set-up so you can change the principal, risk, & pips made. the time frame on the side can simply be however you need it to be; i.e., representing 1 trade, 1 day, 1 week ... you get the picture. i had to convert from quatro (to satisfy the ...

Looking for a Compound Interest Spreadsheet

took 2 more trades for the session(s) ... (1) was a 1-2-3 ... i bailed at 0.6% gain ... left 1.6% on the table ... i dont even remember why i bailed, but i did; (2) was another 1-2-3 that i bailed on for a net gain of 1.3% ... (left 0.5% on the ...

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

missed a nice little 1-2-3 from the outer bands while we were hiking ... oh well.

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

against my better judgment i took a trade during the kiwi session ... nothing else open ... dumb & un-disciplined. why? who knows. saw something that met the set-up rules (except for the no-trade-during-only-one-crappy-market-open-rule) ... bounced ...

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

it's under the Williams tab ...

Profitunity (Chaos) Trading System by Bill Williams

phew. typical sunday. market moving in slow steady progressions. net 2.3% for the nite. followed along w/ the boys over at sterling's site [see, http://www.forexfactory.com/showthread.php?p=2637107#post2637107] & turns out E/U tracks fairly ...

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

and ... i survived one hour w/o electricity ... ... (the irony is the wind has picked up and we are probably going to lose all the power for the rest of the evening ... damnit!! now i cant kick my bf's ass at wii golf). thanks for your fun post! ...

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

guess i didn't have the heart to report the final 3 trades were losses. net loss of 1.8% for those so 2.7% for my Thursday london session. got caught in the chop ... i finally figured it out & had enuf sense to shut it down ... Thursday/Friday's ...

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

solidarity: "a union of interests or purposes or sympathies among members of a group" http://www.earthhour.org [for the 2 members that waste their time on my thread ... ] btw, the above link is funky for some reason, but it's valid, there's a ...

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

so far a frustrating session. 3 more trading opps completely spaced on (which would have been net gains), 1 scratch (pullback), 1 loss (TL break), 1 win (pullback), and 1 loss (TL break) ... net loss 0.9% ...

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

missed this beauty by a few minutes (TL break via quad bottom). reason ... i once again was distracted by other things instead of paying attention to my charts during my trading hours (HK open thru aussie close) ... cost me 4% which would have put ...

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

made an "assumption" about the market ... haha, i picked the top ... N0PE!! didn't take an obvious trade from a pullback. left 0.9% on the table. net on the pullback/TL break trading for the nite is 0.9%. net for the 1-2-3 set-ups is 0.8%. so, im ...

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

USDCHF trade took out the swing so im out of that one. entered another on on the USDJPY since then. took a 1-2-3 at a pullback. managed the trade using FE ... should have simply used my simple price/% retracement method for trailing the stop ... ...

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

took another 1-2-3 for 1% gain. market has gone koo-koo since then so nothing else since then popped out at me. entered a DIBS trade in the GBPJPY ... we'll see how that goes. my USDCHF has been trailed off the latest swing on the hourly chart.

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

same crappy market tonite. didn't even find anything tradeable until later in the asian session. 1st pullback trade was a small loss of 0.4%. 2nd 1-2-3 trade was a loss, reversed & that 3rd trade ended in a scratch. 4th pullback was good for 1.2%.

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

crystal ball? ... haha, anyway, looks like you answered your own question. however, for every time you move it and it stops you out too early, perhaps it makes up for all those times when you wouldn't move it & you gave too much back? on the ...

Trading setups around SR Zones

found another pullback after TL break to trade a little later, but ended in a scratch ... ended the night again w/ net 1.4% gain. that's good and is all anyone needs, but lack of focus on the 5 min stuff has cost me some of those movers that make up ...

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