The vortex trader — Before I get started trading for the day I have to address what is going on with my lot size. I intended to add one lot to my trades this week and I have not done so. What I make this to mean is that "I don't have ...

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The vortex trader — I am done for the day - a profitable day and I am still a long way from my goal. Would have gotten close except I put in a buy order instead of a sell order and didn't realize it until it was to late to get out with minimal ...

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The vortex trader — I feel like a fisherman sitting on the edge of a lake going through my tackle box. What lure shall I use today to catch a fish? What I notice is that I have to many choices. I am thinking about how many of them have ...

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The vortex trader — I am chuckling at myself at the moment. I am trying to determine the value of this post - I hit my financial goal today so is it bragging; I increased my lot size so is it to show progress; I didn't stay in my trades long ...

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The vortex trader — I am short at 1.4036 on the GBPUSD based on an inside bar break which was followed by an Outside bar. So now I see I need to have a play for the outside bar. Any one with a suggenstion on what to look for on outside bars ...

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The vortex trader — I have been thinking about this for a good part of the weekend. First, I followed shakes thread and though not a devotee of his style of trading, his thread opened my eyes to not being afraid of a 1 minute time frame. I was ...

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The vortex trader — End of the month - time to evaluate what worked, what didn't work and what improvements I can work on. What worked - really being consistent in my trading times. Picking a 4 hour window that works for me and only trading ...

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The vortex trader — Interesting day, I was up late last night watching shakesfx's demo of his trading style. Don't know what to say about it at the moment. Other than I can see how he can do it. Today I had another profitable day just $7 short ...

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The vortex trader — My platform is down so I am done for the day. Fortunately I didn't have any trades on. This hapens every once in a while and it drives me crazy especially when I have a postion. So it looks like I am going to have to go ...

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The vortex trader — Well this morning I was late to the party by a few minutes and missed the inside bar trade on the GBP and the 21 cross on the JPY so I am now in a foul mood and have to get my head back into the game. This is one of those ...

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The vortex trader — I realized that I am not being totally up front with how I trade. Like this morning - On the JPY trade - I saw that price was over extended, so I entered with 1/3 of my commitment to a postion. For two reasons - it was at ...

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The vortex trader — I am not in a great frame of mind this morning, feel tired and groggy and yet I just went short the USDJPY at 96.48. I wasn't going to trade until well after Bernake's talk but when I went through my set-ups for the day - ...

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The vortex trader — Well I am done for the day. Still working on my mental framework. I missed taking a couple of inside bar trades and a slingshot trade. I was busy messing around with the 1 min trades and working the Euro Jpy and EurGBP a ...

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The vortex trader — I was laying in bed thinking about what has been working the last couple of weeks, such that I have grown my account and taken money out. I don't know. It's not that I have great entries, I surely didn't let winning ...

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The vortex trader — Usually I am not up this late so I know I have something bothering me. All weekend I was angsting over an event that did not happen. I was feeling the pain of a huge loss even though I didn't have a loss on friday. ...

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The vortex trader — This journal is about me growing as a trader. I just had to get in one more trade today - and went long the chf for a quick scalp which I made a few pips on, met my goal for the week by one pip and got out. In hindsight I ...

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The vortex trader — The end of a week - I have done 2 trades so far this morning - euroyen scalping short at 11924 and out at 11905, and a short on the EuroGBP for a couple of pips, waiting until the top of the hour to see if I can get one ...

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The vortex trader — So I post in any of my trades - I had 3 - shorted the jpy at 9428 got out at 9405, shorted the euro yen at 12024 got out at 11980, and shorted the eruogbp at 8878 out at 8866. So here I sit once again short of my goal for ...

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The vortex trader — The start of new day - so what am I working on today - that is not a good question, better yet "what am I going to do today to grow my trading business?" This morning I have been reading about the Kelly criteria which deals ...

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The vortex trader — Thanks Dan for your kind words. I have been bouncing around so much I have lost my way. One of the habits I have developed is whenever someone comes to me with a different trading methodology, I have to test it out. Then ...

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