This is the first week of my new Forex trading journey. Well, am I lucky or unlucky? I have encountered almost all of the worst scenarios of my system, Dang! My weekly position was stopped and reverse and stopped again immediately after release of British Interest Rate Statement. The spike and reversal killed my positions.
In addition to my system, I over traded by trying out a couple of currency pairs, and worsen this week’s result. The trial is over, I will stop doing this immediately. Next week, I will follow the system without second thought.
The original system was designed to trade GBP/USD on weekly system and GBP/JPY on daily system. This week is kinda short for daily system, since I started trading the system on Tuesday and not trading on NFP Friday. So far, I did not enter/exit a trade prematurely, and followed position size rules strictly this week.
The actual result of this week for the system is as below, I do not initiate a new position for daily system on Good Friday, taking off on this ‘Combo’ day (Good Friday + NFP day):
Weekly System:
- Long GBP/USD: 1.9729, Stopped: 1.9699 P/L: -30 pips
- Short GBP/USD: 1.9679, Stopped: 19706 P/L: -27 pips (miscalculated stop level)
- Lose from top (the max unrealised profit achieved): 94 pips
- Total P/L: -57 pips
Daily System:
- Short GBP/JPY: 233.07, Stopped: 233.47 P/L: -40pips
- Long GBP/JPY: 233.47, Exit: 234.47 P/L: +100 pips
- Short GBP/JPY: 234.42, Stopped:234.92 P/L: -50 pips
- Long GBP/JPY: 234.92, Stopped:234.42 P/L: -50 pips
- Short GBP/JPY: 234.38, Exit: 233.98 P/L: +40 pips
- Total P/L: 0 pips
Non-system day trades (Currency pairs that are not part of daily system)
- Long GBP/USD: 1.9782, Stopped: 1.9742 P/L:-40 pips
- Short GBP/USD: 1.9742, Stopped: 1.9782 P/L: -40 pips
- Long USD/CHF: 1.223, Stopped: 1.219 P/L: -40 pips
- Total P/L: -120 pips
It was silly. Non-system day trades actually brought into -120 pip loss unnecessarily. Anyways, over all, I am still feeling ok with the system (provided I am not doing silly stuffs like making non-system day trades again). I know over time it will bring me pips.
Have a good rest over the long weekend.
Still, the truth is ,real man trades futures, his son trades Forex, I am trading both, for my wife. 🙂
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After spending the weekend to draft out my trading plan, I start my Forex trading this month. I did that before, and now I am trying again with totally different style and strategies. The reason of picking up this trading vehicle again is to utilize the advantage of staying in Asia (since I have no interest to trade stocks in Singapore market). Yes, I will trade during Asian and European session , and continue in U.S session if I see opportunity. Thanks Vincent who encourages me to look into currency trading seriously (Though he was talking about currency futures). I am not talking about trading in demo account, I did my testing of strategies in demo account, and now I am going live. For the time being, the risk amount is half the size of my normal R.
