haha, jokes on me. market jumps another 70 pips after i jumped out. my original plan was to trail my stop to 2551 when the market hit 2621 ... final stop was 2683.

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

im out with the rest of my units at 103 pips (yesterday's high & 00 level) ... well done.

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

a miracle has occurred. i pulled the trigger. 1/2 position off at 70 pips ... still holding at 80 pips, but will likely retrace here in a bit.

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

how tragic. i've already done the post-mortem for the week. had i simply followed the plan, i could have netted 5.3% this week. should have been 10 trades; 3 losses, 1 b/e, & 6 wins. simple trades. no hindsight goggles, just the ones where i failed ...

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

this week is a wash. i am live intraday, but results are neutral ... my daily demo trades are doing fine. i am going back to work ... i am dreading it. will keep trading until i am free from the chains that bind me. (small confession, i started ...

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

G/U never triggered U/CHF loss G/J loss U/CAD hit my very quick target ... ahhh, pin bars ... hit & miss prospects at best. anyway, for today im trying the UCAD, G/J & U/J

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

pin bar mania today. G/U, U/CHF, G/J, & UCAD. CT so not taking these live & quick over nite. will re-assess menana. set & forget.

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

missed another this morning. im seriously considering going live w/ my daily swing trading & ditching the intraday stuff. :-|

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

and to compound matters, i was in the U/J short under the same set-up & bailed on it when i was a up a few pips after it retraced on me. seriously. i have issues.

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

my AU swing trade hit the target. $465 on $1000 so far. my UCAD is up 200 pips & 50 w/in target.

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

embarrassed to say that i have FTPTT once again ... presently, i would be pulling half my position off the table. it was one of the trickier set-ups, but i really need to get past this somehow. week in, week out. same story. sad.

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

post mortem for 9 potential set-ups (realistically that i could have taken w/in my session & that i would have spotted) removing fear & just pulling the trigger on a signal = 3% had i traded using 1% risk & 6% had i traded using 2% risk (versus the ...

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

another amazing week trading the dailys ... i have now made $433 on a $1K account since april 8. my intraday was so-so; made the equivalent of about 0.4% (had i not traded pennies) ... going to do a quick post mortem for the week.

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

something terrible happened to my trading partner & friend yesterday so i only played one set-up & blitzed on the second. same thing happened this morning. hoping to get my concentration back. has been a very strange week to initiate live trading.

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

EU was closed after nearly hitting my target. EJ still running & in the black GU still running & in the black GJ hit my target AU is in the red UCAD never triggered, but i manually entered today i have a limit order placed for the UJ today

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

my EU, EJ, & GU swing/daily trades still running & have 3 new trades entered for the GJ, AU, & UCAD.

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

this trade is still running & at 100+ pips. SL has been trailed to prior target. looking next for 2587 ... new target 2462. think i will keep trailing this in stages as price runs down. missed a re-entry at 11am, but my foot is a mess & it's making ...

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

well, im live. a fellow trader friend of mine suggested i trade pennies on my live account starting out to break myself in (i told him about my blanking out on the charts last nite) ... so, im trading pennies instead of 1-2% risk. turns out, pulling ...

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

who knows why i blanked on these, but i did. have to overcome a whole new fear of losing.

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

first day of live trading is a win. no trades. no lost money. LOL (there was a potential set-up, but i completely blanked on it) seriously, there just wasn't any set-ups. the 2 trades i demo'd were losers.

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