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How to organise your day when Trading from Home

How to organise your day when Trading from Home

I've been running a few systems now and have found a few which I'm happy with and should make me some money over the long term. However, with having many systems, I found out that there are some caveats which you need to overcome.. not only that, if I am to start trading for myself as my full time profession, I need to ensure that I get enough of a balance in my life... ie spend time with the other half, meet friends, keep fit (very important), pursue my hobbies/other interests. Just some

April 4, 2011 No Comments Full Story

4 Trades, 3 Losses, Weekend!

4 Trades, 3 Losses, Weekend!

So for those reading, I've marked my trades 1 to 4 showing the order of my trades. Trade 1 of  today was a long of the EURUSD as shown below: I had a 20 point stop on this and it went nowhere... just dragged and then plummetted knocking me out for -20 Then onto the GBPUSD trades where I made 3 trades today: Trade 2 was long GBPUSD (by the way green arrows are long entries and red arrows are short entries) mirrored the EURUSD in trade 1.. once again, nothing and it just tanked t

April 1, 2011 No Comments Full Story

It was a good job I missed my trading entry….

It was a good job I missed my trading entry....

Today I was in a conference call, desperately trying to get out and look at the market before 9am but alas, it was not meant to be and I missed my entries and had to let them go by... I look again later on in the day to see how they would have gone and it was good that I missed my trading entry.. well, at least for GBPUSD anyway: The entry would have been right at the top of days range, literally to the pip and then tanked, I would have lost 20 pips! The EURUSD would have faired bet

March 31, 2011 No Comments Full Story

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