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Rant

Week #1 FX trading review

by Gav Leave a Comment

goodtoseeyou7rl.jpgThis 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. ๐Ÿ™‚

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Go Man U Go!

by Gav Leave a Comment

manubeatblackburn.jpgOk, maybe I again write too many posts over the weekend. But , I just can’t help doing this, because WE WON AGAIN!! We fought back from 0-1 down in the first half, and finished the match with 4-1 win! And my favourite Korean star Park Ji Sung scored again! Oh man, you know what I am saying, we are Manchester United!

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Trader’s Narrative Trading Blog Contest

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babak.jpgThe once inactive blog is back. Babak is back with some great posts on his stock trading blog Trader’s Narrative. He is having its first trading blog contest. He’s giving away six months of access to SentimenTrader.com: Analysis Over Emotion in the Stock and Bond Markets.

All you have to do is to write a post about the contest. Check it out.

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Month in review : March 2007

by Gav Leave a Comment

alexf.jpgI was thinking to skip my monthly review for this month, and walk away. I feel so bad to report the lousy performance on my blog. I did badly this month. I found it difficult to trade and in addition, I lost my focus for a moment, I made more trades than I used to. This is the first losing month of the year. I have discussed couple of points in my previous post, I am not going to repeat again here.

I keep two separate journals in order to track dummy system specifically. Interesting, in total, Dummy system produced 0.11 R this month, while my overall trading performance in March was down -3.36 R. And I experienced a string of losses in the last week of March, as I’ve mentioned in my twitter. However, these losses were small as the risk amount were around half of my normal R. Which means I had a couple of trades that required small R , and I did not increase position size.

The result is ridiculous. I made 18 trades this month, which are more than what I did in Jan and Feb. And the result is the worst of the year.

Overall performance:

  • Total P/L: -3.36 R
  • Total No. of trades: 18
  • Winning trades: 3
  • Break Even: 1
  • Losing trades: 14 (!?!?)

Anyways, it doesn’t help to bother too much over the losses. Lesson learnt, noted down, and I am ready for April. I give no chance for negativity to enter my life.

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Quote from MONROE TROUT

by Gav Leave a Comment

In The New Market Wizards: Conversations with America’s Top Traders, Monroe Trout mentioned the trading rules that he lives by.

Make sure you have the edge. Know what your edge is. Have rigid risk control rules … Basically, when you get down to it, to make money, you need to have an edge and employ good money management. Good money management alone isn’t going to increase your edge at all. If your system isn’t any good you’re still going to lose money, no matter how effective your money management rules are. But if you have an approach that makes money, then money management can make the difference between success and failure.

…

I’m excited and confident about the future. If I ever don’t feel that way, I will stop trading.

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Thank you

by Gav Leave a Comment

Just a short note to thank readers who have voted me in Best of the blogs at Interactive Investor Blog. I am glad to know rants and diary of my trading do attract/help some readers.

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Thank You.

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