The vortex trader — I feel the need to contribute to my trading journal today. I have no idea how to trade the market after a day like today. I wonder if there will be a decent retrace during the Asian market. Has a day like today changed the ...

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The vortex trader — My 4 hours of watching the market are up and no trades today. I had my setup on the Eur and GBP in the last hour and let them pass. Now to look at this moment and see what I can learn from it. First - I was telling myself ...

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The vortex trader — I woke up this morning ready to reap some pips only to find out the market is not really interested in what I want to do. Sitting on my hands for a couple of hours is on my short list of boring things to do. This is when I ...

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The vortex trader — I am not sure if it is the inquiry I am doing about my trading or the market - I have not been able to pull the trigger this morning, mainly because I haven't had one great set up that I resonate with. I have had a lot of ...

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The vortex trader — The start of new week - I have that thought in my mind questioning if I will ever reach my goal. The thought is the one that says "you are never going to get there at the pace you are going so ramp it up." That is the ...

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Yep — Using this system diligently, a couple of years ago I finally reached nirvana and was trading against myself. The end result, the world real estate market crashed, credit markets crashed, the stock market crashed and eventually, 11 ...

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The vortex trader — When I started this thread, I knew it was going to be more about what's going on between my ears than the next best system. Boy was I right. When I read this journal, I see the growth after each set back. Yesterday was a ...

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The vortex trader — Wow - Am I an idiot or what - I laid out the perfect plan on the JPY and then didn't follow it because I was chasing the market on the GBP and AudJpy - I had my first lossing day in a while and I am tired. Today I battled ...

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The vortex trader — Ok so this is what I am looking for on the USDJPY a push back up to 9850 - and short retrace then a push to 9870 area and then will take the retrace back for 40 to 50 pips - thats my hope this morning - we shall see.

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The vortex trader — What to do - focus on the retrace of the CHF, JPY or EuroJPY cannot do all three at the same time - not talented enough - the chf is wierd because of the bank announcement to buy so that is off my list so back to the yens - ...

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The vortex trader — It is the end of the day - just a bunch of scalps. Shorted the EurGBP at 9295 got out at 9274- then got lucky in a way when I shorted the EurYen at 12527 and picked up 40 pips 10 minutes later - moves like that are so hard ...

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On Valentines day, you leave your wife at the dinner table with the rose, teddy bear and card unopened, to check on a trade.

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The vortex trader — I am struggling a little bit today on my trades - the volitility and the huge moves last night make it tough to figure out what is going on. So far I am up for the day but my trades have been very quick and not giving ...

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The vortex trader — I am working on a daily trade that is a modification of another system. The play is a 2 wma on a daily chart. The entry is when the wma cross the monthly open, in either direction go in the direction of the cross. Entered ...

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The vortex trader — I participated in a workshop this weekend dealing with my relationship with money. A couple of insights that came out of the workshop. first insight - what I don't want people to know about me is that I talk a great talk ...

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The vortex trader — The week is done - The good news is that I am up for the week even after taking out some money in my account. I found that I got a little sloppy in my trading today. By sloppy I mean I was not being effective in my entries ...

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The vortex trader — Just went short the EURGBP at 8951 - based on a break of the upper bollinger band and an entry signal on my 1 minute chart - since its friday I will only be in this trade for a little while. Probably take 10 pips and quit ...

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The vortex trader — Well - I finally got a trade in - Long the usdchf at 1.1681 - but now I am closing it with a small 14 pip profit because I have a meeting in a little while that I need to get ready for. I could have done a stop loss or a ...

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The vortex trader — Another slow day - just one of those days when I didn't place one trade - So I have 1 hour to go and I'm feeling a little pressure to manufacture a trade. From experience I know its time to walk away and come back in little ...

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The vortex trader — what a slow day for me - my first trade was almost 3 hours into my session. First trade was short the euroyen at 125.38 I waited for price to break the 12530 for at least 30 minutes so I feel good about my discipline - I ...

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