deja vu from yesterday. almost to the minute too. shy a few pips from 100, but the pattern & triggers are near carbon copies.

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

im almost there ...

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

hello NY. got some of my fear & greed in check this morning & took 2 b/e trades & 1 for a 1% gain (or 1:1) ... nothing special so no charts.

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

ha! just as i was signing out & turning off the computer, i saw a super easy set-up. got in and got out for 0.6% gain. prolly more there, but i have zero desire to stay up and trade the london tonite.

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

crap. seems last week's losses are still haunting me. entered at the pullback off the doji/pin ... bailed at the arrow b/c it started stalling & i starting panicking thinking about suffering another losing trade. then, a new opportunity presented & ...

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

1 loss & 1 win for the evening. net is b/e. bailed on the 2nd one too early cuz i wanted to bank a win as i haven't had too many in the last few days of trailing. had i trailed my SL under my rules the result would have been close to the same as me ...

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

buy 2923, stopped out at TSL 2930 ... 7 pips net

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

i wish i could figure out what this was all about. i've looked on 2 different economic release sites & cant find anything. 100+ pips in 30 minutes.

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

2 papertrades taken during aussie open (b/c oanda spread on eur/usd was 10 pips). the 1st was a b/e trade ... good enuf the 2nd is attached and was good for 3:1 (would have yielded approx. 1.5% gain). price ran down to 4:1 & retraced (using simple ...

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

weekly post-mortem — reviewed my progress this week & compared the trades i logged in my written journal against alternative exit strategies (including removing some of the entries that didn't fit w/in my trading plan). so, w/ all my goofing ...

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

welcome to the wonderful world of options expirations ... 3rd friday of each month it would appear; and right on schedule today. url observation here. usd gained strength against euro over the last month. on the option expiration date and time, ...

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

another loss at 1% risk. good grief.

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

spaced on this one. had the order window open and everything, but i got distracted by reading a yoga website of all things. just not my day.

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

okay. back on track. 2 wins in a row (1% risk) for a net gain of 0.8%. very simple stuff ... simple is goooooood. 1st was off a BUOB at a TL break, starting screwing around & i was already really nervous after the fiasco earlier in the day so i ...

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

im definitely feeling i have a distinct issue w/ patience on waiting for set-ups. i dont know why it has sprung up again, perhaps a greed thing crept in after experiencing some successive, successful trading days.

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

i've got to fess up here and get back to basics. to save a few pips spread, i started following the USDJPY charts, then added EURJPY when i saw it was only a 2 pips spread & then i added ... and on and on until i was looking at 8 charts again. i was ...

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

oh boy. my 1st loss using 1% risk/reward.

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

after yoga (which went about as well as this morning's trading) and an hour-long hike ... i felt like returning to the salt mines. discussed my trades w/ bf and he suggested that if i am going to continue trading after taking 2 losses, i cut my R in ...

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

becoming quite comical now. it's going against me. another loss about to happen. that will make a neat 5 out of 5. good night. to think i woke up feeling pretty positive about things. hang in there grinder.

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

well, this was another set-up under my rules & it's before the NY closing bell. for better or worse, im entering w/o fear of loss (well, maybe i have a little ...) if i go bust on this, im done for a few hours. try and forget all about it during my ...

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