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EURGBP

Update of business and trading 13 August 2009

by Gav Leave a Comment

I am still actively trading. The main project I am working on now is enhancing my trading and risk plan, increase R size, increase my account size, changing broker and platform. The basic idea is not to tweak my current strategy since it has been serving me well, so, I do not wish to tweak what is working now. Instead, I am increasing risk per trade, in other word, a bigger R. I’d continue monitoring the performance and adjust my risk profile accordingly.

I’ve been pondering to increase my account size, one of the requirement for this would be changing broker, to one which offers better execution, stability, and reputation. Anyway, that has been decided, I am not going to start another post of broker discussion. I’ve been practising on the paper trading account to get familiar with the platform, and I am ready to go soon. These are the main things that I am working on, nothing really new, just part of business process,and that explains why the lack of posting recently.

I thought I would give a quick summary of my trading. Firstly, I would say, Non Farm Payroll and FOMC had really messed up my charts. My EURGBP long position was takenn out at breakeven, hours after NFP announcement. Well, and you know, the pair went back up after that. What can I do? It happens, sometimes. I decided to hold on my short position of GBPJPY, though at times, it looked like a dead body. Since stop were in place, I didn’t want to second guess it. The position achieved the first profit target and closed right before FOMC statement released. That was around 400 pips. Those were no easy pips, good training of sticking-to-plan discipline.

I am sitting on cash now. It is just a mess everywhere on the charts.

I am active on Twitter. So, follow me if you’re interested in my not so frequent market calls and rants.

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

Bearish view of GBP crosses

by Gav Leave a Comment

We saw a pretty good run of British Pounds crosses recently. However, good things seem to come to an end. I saw bearishness across GBP crosses. Looking at the bigger time frame of GBPUSD (i.e daily and weekly), now might be the time for down trend to resume. For short term trading (1 to 2 day time span),  I am looking at EURGBP Long, GBPAUD and GBPCHF Shorts. Swing trade, GBPUSD is another shouting SHORT to me. 

Here is the….CHART!

gbpusd_daily_18may2009

You can find my shameless, fatal market calls on Twitter and charts on Chart.ly.

Filed Under: Trading Journal Tagged With: EURGBP, FX, GBPAUD, GBPCHF, GBPUSD, Trading Journal

One EURGBP trade

by Gav Leave a Comment

I thought this chart is nice and probably inspiring. This is a short trade made by my ‘I-hate-forex’ system as I mentioned in my Weekly wrap up. Target was hit during opening hour of Friday London session.

Short EURGBP. +160 pips

eurgbp

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

Busy week

by Gav Leave a Comment

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.

eurgbp

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.

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

Broken box & idea for Tuesday

by Gav Leave a Comment

Holy cow! The very test of my trading idea box failed miserably… 😆

Whatever.. Here are the ideas for Tuesday:

– NOTHING!

Yup, no formed setup exists now. Instead there are a couple of them on the wathlist.

EURGBP – Still looking at Long

USDJPY – Looking at Short

Let’s see how it goes.

Filed Under: Trading Journal Tagged With: box, EURGBP, FX, Trading Journal, USDJPY

One EUR/GBP trade

by Gav

I went long on EURGBP. So , this time, the tips or Junk ideas appear to be a tips. I closed partial of my position and let the rest run. Here is the 5-minute chart to show the development of the entry setup. No rocket science, just try to ride on the bull when it is taking a short break. Think…..

OK, here is the….. CHART!

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

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