Friday's Trading

My plan was to exit my day trade position before NFP announcement. Right. I did that, and missed out bigger profit. But, well, I am not feeling frustrated over this at all. Day trading around NFP are for the 'Professionals' , not for me.

I was Long AUD/JPY. Not too bad. And I was happy to close the position around 30 minutes before NFP. But wait! My trading platform stalled, hanged, and died. I have to kill the application. My order was still in progress.

When I restarted the application my order was filled, at the much lower price. Oh well.... :-|

End the day with +1 R. Pretty uneventful week, though I managed to close the week in positive.

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  1. Tom
    TG, don't feel bad. I screwed up a great NFP trade on Friday. It happens!
    1. Gav
      Tom, Well, I am not feeling that bad, just kinda annoyed by the platform. But, well, It happens in trading.
  2. Tom
    TG, don't feel bad. I screwed up a great NFP trade on Friday. It happens!
    1. Gav
      Tom, Well, I am not feeling that bad, just kinda annoyed by the platform. But, well, It happens in trading.
  3. Tom
    Yeah I was checking out FXCM but I'm not too sure about it. I might go the IB route and get esignal or something to sit on top of it.
  4. Tom
    Yeah I was checking out FXCM but I'm not too sure about it. I might go the IB route and get esignal or something to sit on top of it.
  5. aiQUANT
    And then you find that something like eclipse trader is not too bad a starting point to develop your own platform!
  6. aiQUANT
    And then you find that something like eclipse trader is not too bad a starting point to develop your own platform!