Update for 20100628

Took one trade today for a loss after it got within a pip of my TP level! Hate that, but c'est la vie.

Euro and franc were positively correlated today for a while, not sure why. Went back to normal inverse correlation around noon.

Down 3.4% month-to-date

Up 7.2% since inception (4/19/2010)

Update for 20100623-25

So many trades this week! I was just entering trades when they popped up and barely even paying attention to the account balance. I think that made me feel good overall, but maybe only because I noticed I wasn't losing too much money ;) I did accidentally miss two trades, both losers; this is a big deal because it puts me up relative to where I should be. I doze off a lot, and I think proper caffeination will help. I can't keep hoping to be lucky regarding missed trades forever.

Even with the losers, I would have ended positive for the week. Itching for a new equity high!

Down 1.1% month-to-date

Up 9.6% since inception (4/19/2010)

Update for 20100622

Best day today in a while! Felt really good having two more wins and 1 loss, then another trade popped up at the last minute, resulting in another win. Again, feeling a high on this, but trying to keep myself in check about it.

Down 1% month-to-date

Up 9.8% since inception (4/19/2010)

Update for 20100621

Speaking of roller coasters...

Hitting back today with two wins and one loss. I actually dozed off and missed an entry on a loser. Lucky me!

Down 7.2% month-to-date

Up 2.9% since inception (4/19/2010)

Update for 20100618

Two losses today, feeling pretty blue. Realizing that this is more of an emotional roller coaster than I had originally thought!

Down 10.6% month-to-date

Down 0.9% since inception (4/19/2010)

Update for 20100614-17

Started the week out with two losses and one win, taking me down to a little above my starting equity. Sometimes I try to force out-of-body moments and take a look at how I feel (psychoanalyze myself?), and I can definitely notice a difference in my morale between equity highs and lows. I haven't been learning that much about literal trading lately, as in new ideas and testing systems, but all of this self-analysis has not been wasted.

I had my first dream of my account blowing up, which was very scary particularly because I tried to wake myself up from the dream and couldn't ("this must be a dream...wake up! wake up!") The cause of the margin call was some hundreds-of-pips gap in the euro, but I never found out its cause. Thankfully it was just a dream... but the possibility remains real, albeit very, very small.

As for this morning, the Swiss LIBOR rate sent the euro and franc spinning, and I was not in the markets at all. It doesn't look like I'll be in any trades for the rest of the day, so I'm knocking off a few minutes early.

Down 7.6% month-to-date

Up 2.5% since inception (4/19/2010)

Update for 20100611

Closed out the week with one win and one loss today. Was nice to see the win after a 4 loss streak! The last little bit of the equity curve looks like it did back when I started. It's only a matter of time for a new high!

Down 6.2% month-to-date

Up 4.1% since inception (4/19/2010)

Update for 20100610

Two more losses today, unfortunately.

Down 6.8% month-to-date

Up 3.4% since inception (4/19/2010)

Update for 20100609

Unfortunately the win streak has to end some time! Had two losers today that I didn't feel bad taking at all.

Down 2.4% month-to-date

Up 8.2% since inception (4/19/2010)

Update for 20100608

One trade reversed today for a break-even. Swiss national bank started acting up, and glad I was out of the market! 100 pip pinbar on the U/C.

Up 2.2% month-to-date

Up 13.3% since inception (4/19/2010)

Update for 20100607

No trades today! ZzZzZ....

Update for 20100604

Placeholder!

Update for 20100603

One loss today and two entries I made that I shouldn't have due to careless error. Oops! Both quickly exited at break even after realizing my mistake, thankfully.

Up 1.4% month-to-date

Up 12.5% since inception (4/19/2010)

Update for 20100602

Had kind of a strange day today. Ran into a repaint issue with a metatrader indicator that I use, but I knew it could happen and is not a game changer at all. The indicator is the overlay indicator I use for inversing the franc onto my euro chart. Anyway, before going live with this method, I did all of my backtesting with the charts fullscreen, and I'm doing all of my trading with the charts much smaller, so that I can fit 6 on a 1920x1080 display. The overlay was flat (not a peak) when fullscreen, yet 1 pip off (forming a definite peak) when smaller, so I didn't take the trade. It was a large pattern, which is why I had to make the window full screen to see the whole thing anyway.

The trade would have been a quick win, but that's ok. I had two trades that I DID take, one loser and one winner for a small bump in equity, and yet another new equity high :)

Up 3.7% month-to-date

Up 15% since inception (4/19/2010)

Update for 20100601

One trade, one win, one new equity high! Took a divergence off of the open today and it screamed towards profit and easily hit it.

Up 3% month-to-date

Up 14.2% since inception (4/19/2010)