wow. printing money is good for USD? my USDCAD long & AUDUSD short daily momentum trades are about to trigger too. my 2:1 target is right about 3000, so that's in line w/ the resistance levels everyone's been talking about.

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

presently in the black and nearly to 1:1 ... thinking of either TSL to b/e if it hits 2600 or trying oanda's trailing stop thinga-ma-jig again b/f retiring. hasn't hit there yet, so i have time to think about it.

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

forgot about the trades i took off the daily charts. kind of gross that im back to that, but i was doing pretty well just taking a few pips off the momentum breaks of all those PA signals a few months back ... got lazy about placing the orders and ...

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

took another SH trade at 2620 ... we'll see. been back and forth and back again on this one.

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

max distance average via the last could-a-would-a-should-a trade now 19 pips. my pips taken average based on what i should have done is 9 pips.

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

IB after TL break which followed a BEOB (which happened to break the TL). nice set-up. then, im in the trade ... do i sit there happy i have pulled the trigger on a decent entry ... nooooo ... i start worrying about the pullback ... AAAAAHHHHHH. i ...

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

another one ended in a scratch. oanda shaved a few more pennies on my account despite requesting a break even order ... groan.

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

caught a 2nd pullback for 0.5%. max distance on that one was 15. my net pips was 5.1. have more to say negative about oanda, but im just going to chalk that up to doing business ... (ROFLMAO ... w/ the mob maybe ...) anyway, the average max distance ...

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

screwing around w/ something else and i totally missed an obvious pullback trade. i even had opened a new order window waiting for it cuz i saw the set-up nearly there ... assuming i followed the rules, it was a 1.5% opp missed or 15 pips for my ...

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

IB after TL break. 0.7% gain. so far max distance average is 20 pips. my average pip gain is 10 pips ... sure wish i had some plan for what im going to do w/ this info when im done. oh well, i press on.

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

pullback trade. followed my system. 0.8% gain. starting to keep track of max. distance for record keeping purposes.

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

i did another "experiment" ... but instead of taking a trade, i added a filter on the fly (over-complicated a simple system) ... and passed on taking a trade i would have otherwise taken. i dont know what's going on tonite. goofy mental shit. cost ...

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

mini hammer at the pullback trade taken. pretty shaky there for a while, but stuck to the plan (had to grit my teeth especially after having suffered those losses on my "experiment" trades ... will explain below) ... price shot down, 1 level at a ...

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

good grief, it's not on. leaves me more time to get myself into trouble.

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

why not. that one was a loser, why not try the same stupid thing again ... another loss. same amount. im off kilter tonite. then, while goofing w/ that experiment i completely missed a very basic trade that could have netted me a little positive ...

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

ouch. just learned a 1.8% lesson on an experiment ...

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

changed direction. 1.9% loss while i was hiking. will jump back in at 2720 if it gets back there.

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

bf farted around long enuf so i saw price reach 2720 and placed an order for that w/ a 20 pip SL & a set target. [and close out the SH trade at 2720] okay ... now he's ready ... sheesh!!

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

papertrade long (oanda spread was 10) from 2680 target is 2720. not quite there yet. presently my SL is at b/e. just saw another set-up at 2720, so at 2720, will simply move my trailing stop to 2700. that locks in 20 and puts me a trade "using the ...

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

i also have done my own analysis for pin bars, but i found the results were much different when i forward tested versus back-tested. for instance, when i back-tested, i didn't have the where-with-all to also cross-reference w/ news releases. here's ...

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