Anatomy of another trade...

... or the win that I lost. 


Sometimes we have ideas that the market will move more than just our 'basic' win. 
When it doesn't, it looks like this. 

Friday rush

I wasn't around to take it, but those who did got their money's worth.


Some reasoning on how I handle contradictory signals. 

TWADJ today

An evening where plenty of trades could have been available, but the signal escaped us... For a long time. 

Here is the trade I took today. It was hardfought, and took it's time, but when I was out buying smokes, it sort itself out. Got back just in time to close at 43 pips. 

43 pips, 3440 SEK

Start: 25 000 SEK

BR Now: 74 403 SEK

TWADJ today

Today I didn't find any optimal signals. There were a few relatively good ones, but I've found that I'm getting more and more picky. I'm not sure why... Could it be the dryspell the last two weeks has made me cautious?  Am I hesitating a bit much? 
Maybe... 
Also, Aqua, my dog, had a wounded paw today, so my focus was less than good. We'll see what the vet says tomorrow. 


But there were pips to be had this evening. At least 20. 60+ for the cool kids. 


Ah, well, tomorrow is another day.

And here is Aqua, in case you wanted to see her. 

She turns 9 on the 30th of July. 

Oil to the people

Yesterday I had two trades in the evening. Both on TWADJ. One win and one loss. I think I got 0,3 pips ahead or so. Was away at the movies at midnight, so I didn't have time to do the screenshots. And now I don't feel like doing them, since it is a zero sum game. 


A signal for Oil appeared today. I had to take it. 
It was very very close to closing out after a while, but it managed to get back up, and I clawed out 24 pips.

24 pips, 1920 SEK

Start: 25 000 SEK
BR Now: 70 963 SEK

Another Anatomy

Have never traded GBP/JPY before, but it is said to work with the TrendFX. 
It probably does, but not this time. 


Also, just when I placed the trade, I noticed the HUGE spread. 6 pips on one of these slow ones? That is shitty, IG. Well, I won't trade on GBP/JPY on IG again... 


Here is the loss for now:

-19 pips, -1520 SEK

Start: 25 000 SEK

BR Now: 69 043 SEK

Movement on TWADJ

A trade, or two, today.
One was taken in chat. I was out with the dog... dammit.


Ah, well, here is the trade for today. 
20 pips, and a lot more for the cool kids.

Another Anatomoy of a trade.

This trade was in the red for about an hour and more. That is not so uncommon. 
Here is it below in a bunch of screenshots. 

66 pips, 5 280 SEK

Start: 25 000 SEK
BR Now: 70 563 SEK

Anatomy of a trade

I had an oil trade today. (Yes, the office was slow, and since I locked in my profits, I actually had a trade running while I was away on lunch. Scary.) 


Note the lines on the chart. They are my 'locks' for the trade. 
The trade could have been more, had I closed, but who can know? 
I'm happy with what I got. 

92 pips, 7 360 SEK

Start: 25 000 SEK
BR Now: 65 283 SEK

We all knew

It had to happen. Today the first trade was a loss. -19 pips on TWADJ. 


The entry might have been a bit doubtful, so I'm not sure I took a correct trade here because of the ranging. 
It was a loss anyway, though.

-19 pips, -1520 SEK

Start: 25 000 SEK
BR Now: 57 923 SEK

Trade of the day

I was away at a friend's house today. Or, actually, it is more of a mansion. He bought an old school, and have for a year renovated it completely. What a fantastic building. 


This made that I couldn't take today's trade. But I know a lot of others took it in the chat room.


Good on'ya, fellas! 

Easily 20 pips

So slow...

Some days there are no trades.
This was one of them. A boring day. And as someone said in chat "Jesus had more fun on the cross..."




One of my childhood's heroes passed away today. RIP Jon Lord.


And to honour his memory:

Daytrading

Some days I work from home. One perk with that is that I can keep one eye on the market. 


System 1, Trend FX.


Was just gonna take 20, but another clear signal appeared and I took another. 
For some reason it skyrocketed. 

21+71=92 pips, 7 360 SEK

Start: 25 000 SEK
BR Now: 59 443 SEK

My afternoon trade

This is what I do when I have a few hours free at work. 


Today Gold was trending downwards a lot. I jumped in on a System 4 signal of the Trend FX system. 


56 pips was the result.
Had I had more time, it just reached 80 after a bit of fluctuation. 

56 pips, 3080 SEK

Start: 25 000 SEK

BR Now: 52 083 SEK

That wen't fast. Time to recalculate the old Bank Roll. It has moved 50% since last recalculation and it is overall up 108,3% in just over a month. 

It was 55 SEK. New Pip Value will be 80 SEK. (Divide by 10 to get approx amount in £.) 

Next recalculation is at 75 000 SEK. 

Only one trade today

And it didn't even reach 20 pips. 
Big news were coming, and there is no point in staying in then. That's gambling, and we are trading. 


This was the trade for today, though.
If you were out at 19:30 (18:30), you'd make 15 pips or so... 

Not a bad tuesday

We got a signal almost straight away. The trade was close to exit at SL, but resistance held, as it often does. 
I was out at 39 pips. The cool kids could have gotten 100+. 


At the very end there was another 'recovery-trade'. I got 20 from that.


Good to see so many getting the hang of it so fast. 

It took some time, but it worked. 

This was taken in chat by a lot of people. 

This was too good a signal to ignore even

if it was very late in the evening.

(Remember that I'm one hour ahead of you.) 

One trade of 39 pips and one of 20.

2 145 SEK and 1 100 SEK.

Start: 25 000 SEK

BR Now: 49 003 SEK

(To get the £-value, divide by 10, and you get a rough estimate.)

Monday

Got in later than usual. 
Caught 21 pips on the 15 min TF. 
Yellow lines added for clearity.


There were three more trades this evening with TWADJ. Two wins and one loss. 

21 pips, 1155 SEK

Start: 25 000 SEK

BR Now: 45 758 SEK

Quiet

I din't do any trades this week. At least not after 4th of July. 
It's been irregular. 


Hoping for some nice trades next week.


Have a nice weekend.

July continues and/or begins

My first trade for July was a Gold trade. A combination of system 1 and system 4 on TrendFX. 


It wasn't fast moving to begin with, but shoot off after about 2 hours. Was never in doubt. 


Please note that I don't give away many hints/clues on the images. The system is a lot more complex, and it is recommended that you start, and get very comfortable, with TWADJ first. 

77 pips, 4 235 SEK.

Start: 25 000 SEK
BR Now: 44 603 SEK

Good start for July

I was away eating, but the alert guys in chat caught this trade.

20 pips, although it took some time because

it wasn't trending earlier on the evening.