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- bdan replied Nov 23, 2010
i have placed an order. london is about to open and hopefully liquidity should increase abit.. the Japanese bank holiday is making things a little bit funny..
- bdan replied Nov 19, 2010
ok here is my first attempt at making a video entry.. I want to record my thoughts and ideas and also improve my speaking. I apologize for the picture quality as im pretty unfamiliar with camtasia. video
- bdan replied Nov 17, 2010
gbpchf got me too.. although we traded them both a little differently. I was still in when it went crazy with news announcement.
- bdan replied Nov 17, 2010
well well well I didnt make this trade as the upper trendline was a bit ill definded.. but I still love to see the setups take off like this.
- bdan replied Nov 16, 2010
so gbpchf went went nuts with cpi data.. 50 pip spread stopped me out, on to the next one!
- bdan replied Nov 16, 2010
interesting chart- I see a battle between 2 opposing sides when i look at this chart. The sellers are making their desparate last stand around 9865.. and the buyers are getting closer with each attack.. Whoever wins is likely to face little ...
- bdan replied Nov 16, 2010
sell stop triggered. this is an interesting setup as it continued to go sideways right to the end of the wedge. UK cpi out in an hour so this is where I hope for a little buffer before some unexpected numbers send this thing south..
- bdan replied Nov 15, 2010
So this was a trade I was in when i went to bed last night. it finished up being being a 0.5% loss. I probably could have got my stop to breakeven with an EA but im really not that concerned. It could just as easily be up a long way.
- bdan replied Nov 15, 2010
Hi mysterio basically with that trade it just moved so fast that pretty soon I was up 2 or 3xR .. So after that I was only checking the trade every 6-8 hours and moving my stop down if I could see a good area to put my stop. I try to move to higher ...
- bdan replied Nov 15, 2010
just stumbled on this post from rufus. the professional in my head definately has just had the bar raised a little higher. My current trading plan is ok but it definitely needs some more work. I also like the mentor/accountability partner idea. I ...
- bdan replied Nov 15, 2010
Hi there rufus. I hope you dont mind but I would like to use your post in my journal. I thought my 2 page trading plan was tough to write.. HA id love to one day knock out 10 pages but ah well. Do you mind if I ask how is the mentor/accountability ...
- bdan replied Nov 15, 2010
you should post a closed trade chart so I dont have to look it up myself of course its your journal and you can do as you please
- bdan replied Nov 15, 2010
whoops meant to post the chart with the result
- bdan replied Nov 15, 2010
a big winner from last month — ok these next 2 charts are a trade from last month which made 8x risk. Showing off? yeah sort of.. But its trades like this that make the small losses worth while. It is tempting to take partial profits and use ...
- bdan replied Nov 15, 2010
ok a couple of charts coming up this first one is happening right now so its a good chance to write my thoughts So if I was going to trade this setup which im NOT..I would place a buy stop and sell stop at the same time. with stop losses in the same ...
- bdan replied Nov 14, 2010
EXIT RULES 1. I will move my stop loss in favour of the trade as price reaches predetermined areas or forms new swing highs/lows 2. i can close out the position if it is in drawdown and not going anywhere. 3. I will not use take profits. 4. I can ...
- bdan replied Nov 14, 2010
Ok time for some charts and rules About 8 months ago I made a decision to choose one type of entry and stick to it. I wanted to completely master that entry before even thinking about moving on to another setup. So since then ive been trading a ...
- bdan replied Nov 14, 2010
thanks for stopping by yilmaz! That is good advice which I largely follow already thanks to my entry/ exit rules.
- bdan replied Nov 14, 2010
Hi there, I am impressed by your prefessional approach in this journal. Im sure if you commit to one style for as long as it takes you will find success. As for your last 3 months on fx book that is an equity graph to be envious of thats for sure! I ...
- bdan replied Nov 14, 2010
ok now for some of the things I currently am doing, and also some of the things that the professional does which I would like to be doing for probably the last 6 months I have been doing the following things -I have a trading plan with entry/exit/ ...