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Friday’s Trading

by Gav Leave a Comment

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.

Filed Under: Trading Journal Tagged With: FX, Trading Journal

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  1. Tom says

    at 12:19 pm

    TG, don’t feel bad. I screwed up a great NFP trade on Friday. It happens!

    Reply
    • Gav says

      at 12:24 pm

      Tom,
      Well, I am not feeling that bad, just kinda annoyed by the platform. But, well, It happens in trading.

      Reply
  2. Tom says

    at 10:19 pm

    TG, don’t feel bad. I screwed up a great NFP trade on Friday. It happens!

    Reply
    • Gav says

      at 10:24 pm

      Tom,
      Well, I am not feeling that bad, just kinda annoyed by the platform. But, well, It happens in trading.

      Reply
  3. Tom says

    at 12:39 pm

    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.

    Reply
  4. Tom says

    at 10:39 pm

    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.

    Reply
  5. aiQUANT says

    at 9:23 pm

    And then you find that something like eclipse trader is not too bad a starting point to develop your own platform!

    Reply
  6. aiQUANT says

    at 7:23 am

    And then you find that something like eclipse trader is not too bad a starting point to develop your own platform!

    Reply

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