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Work in progress

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My ATS (or should I say semi-ATS) programming work continues.  Expert advisor of my Really Dumb Trend Catch system has been running since early this week, well, of course, in demo account. It is doing what it is supposed to do. So, not too bad, I am happy with it. I am working on setting up email alert system now. The basic idea of my semi-automation is to run the system at home, alerts me via email, so I can enter and manage my positions from office.  This is essential to me since Metatrader connection is blocked in my work place. At the same time, the system is also taken care by my private full time trader at home — my wife! 😆

Here is the work flow of my semi ATS .

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Here is the example of my trading screen now:

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On the side note, I have just received my executive office chair. Pretty cool and comfortable. Now, I can trade from home , in the bossy mafia style…:lol:

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Some holiday updates

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This  year’s Christmas/New Year break, we choose to stay in Melbourne, relaxed and “do nothing”. 🙂  No traveling, no vacation.

So, here is to show you what I have done for the past week. I spent some time coding and testing my system. Well, basically, I am not a big fan of back testing , I was just playing around my programming skills, to prove I am still good enough to code some programs 😆 . This is the system I am trading day in and day out, so I know it works, even without the dumb ass back testing.  It definitely makes my life a lot easier after program it to generate automated trading signal. Now even my wife can put in the orders for me…:)

So, the name of the system? ‘Really Dumb Trend Catch’ system. Here is an example of EURGBP trade before Christmas.

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I’ve also coded an EA (Expert Advisor) in Metatrader. Well, I do not intend to go for automated trading just yet. Just having fun writing some codes. I found programming keeps my brain sharp.  I have been doing research and reading about automated trading, particularly in currencies trading area. Probably, I will write up something later on.

Holidays continue……

Out of market

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I am out from market now. Well , in case you wanna know.. I was in the market since yesterday.
GBPUSD long position was stopped out before it rallied. And I was away from my workstation. oh well, it happens.

AUDUSD was flying. It feels really good to wake up in the morning with 300 pips profit in your trading account. 😆

Here is the ….CHART! It is for showing off purposes. 😆
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Nothing much. Waited for price to squeeze, speculate the bloody rate cut. Boom. Then manage trailing stop, then , profit target hit…then…that’s it.

Busy week

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The idea box generated quite a number of trades after the first disastrous day. 😆

All trades were focusing on Long EURGBP, and short USDJPY. Friends on my Facebook would have known I was trading these two pairs frequently this week.  The idea box is built with a stupid trend following method couple with fundamental analysis . Whatever you wanna call. I don’t care. It all about speculation.

Here is to show you one of the EURGBP trade I’d made.

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Anyway, Christmas is around the corner. People are again spending like hell. Yup, they might know how shitty economy condition Aussie is facing soon. There are just too many reasons to spend. And THE Government is asking us to spend.

I am still trading next week. And after that I will be taking time off for Christmas/ New  Year break.  And taking the time to review my trading this year. Gut feeling tells me it is not going to be as impressive as I had expected at the beginning of the year. It took me a little too long to adjust my trading style to fit into the changing market condition. Let’s see.