as luck would have it, there was a fairly straight forward reversal entry & i jumped on it. have taken 3/4 of my position off so far & my SL is to b/e. have nearly made up for this morning's disaster & if it continues upward will be up ... time will ...

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

mistakes ... instead of making money, i lost double. rats!!

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

nothing worked out today. closing shop. (poker is a complete dud too ... i find myself on tilt ... so much so i moved up in limits & kept losing; then moved up again & just finished cracking someone's AA w/ my set of 66's; feeling very vindicated, ...

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

hit my target and made my losses up and then some. have been pulling trigger all day today also & experiencing some whipsaw issues will see it thru as i dont have a crystal ball as to which entry will be the one i need.

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

avoided one whipsaw ... then into a short ... went down, checked up, went sideways, almost reversed, then tanked. 1/2 position is off & my SL is at b/e. looking for 2100-ish. shutting down for the nite. dont have all my losses back from yesterday's ...

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

Over-lapping holiday, rate announcements, & NFP this week. Will be a challenge.

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

UK holiday leading into US holiday makes for very poor trading opps. Got whipsawed in the 26 pip range ... Presently short & in the black, but it's going nowhere.

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

experimented with entering my daily trades spotted on friday on friday instead of waiting until today. proving to be a disaster as oanda triggered 90% of them prior to my order price ... i did account for spiked spread from 10-20 pips, but im ...

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

1st trade taken at 10 cents. mistake made when i entered ... left my order window open waiting for an entry, but was set to short. had to jump out at -2 & back in long. all fixed now. need to be more careful.

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

forgot to set my alarms & i missed another one. sigh update: would be reducing my risk at this point. those phone calls disrupted my chi this week and put me on tilt. im still ending the week on a positive not -- to wit, an increase in my account ...

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

took a pullback ... was going okay, but then i got on the phone. didn't adjust my SL per the plan. missed a reversal entry during another phone call (50 pip opp) ... which would have reduced the prior trade's loss. found a pullback to get in late & ...

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

none of these triggered. looking at taking EU on an interesting price pattern for a long. not sure where this will end up, but we'll see. not going to take anything else.

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

EU kicked out at TSL NU is set to b/e & 1/2 pxn off at 100 pips. still struggling to stay above $500 profit mark.

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

there was a potential set-up ... guess i was still asleep. just didn't register. the bars in NY always look so wild & erratic to me i missed the simplicity of it. making a mental note for next time.

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

all are doing fine ... UCAD about to hit the 1.5 target not sure how far i'll get w/ the NU, but will wait & see EU is still in the black by 165 pips birds got me up ... :-|

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

i took the rest near the 2300 hundred mark. this is due for a retrace & i dont want to be up 90 pips only to have it retrace on me 50 ... just couldn't justify that one. (haha, joke's on me again ... price shot up to another one of my targets ... ...

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

funny. now the EU has turned and NU & UCAD have recovered. nothing else has triggered tonite.

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

2nd target reached. looks like i'll be letting this one run overnite. woohoo!! dont think there will be enuf time to manage another pullback. im net 1.6% for the week now. compounding sure is slow trading nickles. :-P

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

pullback taken ... full nickle. exited on a reversal for a loss. no bad feelings experienced. check. reversal is presently 30 pips in the black & my risk has been reduced in half. looking for 2275. the bulls haven't had much steam lately so not sure ...

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

closed balance at 60 pips. so far im net 1.4% for the week trading nickles, 1/2 nickles, and pennies ...

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