Final trade with calculation

Well, today my lateness was a problem. I missed the first, winning, trade, and took the second, losing, trade. I knew it would even out.

If one is critical and reviews the losing trades (which one should), the volumes was quite low and the Divergence was a bit tricky. Anyway, stay out of low volumes. Lesson learned, I hope.

-19 pips, -3 420 SEK

Start: 25 000 SEK

BR Now: 127 963 SEK

That's an "interest" of 411,9%. Just a tad more than one can get by having money on the bank. 

Now, did I have 100% per month? 

No, I was compounding every time I increased 50%. 

The interest for each month was as follows: 

Juni:	61,5%
Juli:	25,2%
Augusti:	18,3%
September:	15,4%
October:	24,4%

Now, that isn't so amazing when broken down. 
That's it for this time. The blog continue, but this example of money doesn't. 

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No trading today

I don't think there will be any trading today, due to Sandy the Frankenstorm sweeping the US East Coast today.

It is important today that we remember what is important in life. That we do not take anything for granted. Life is fickle and it can go wrong very fast unless you are careful.

There was a storm here in Sweden this summer and it was cataclysmic. Sometimes nature shows us how small we really are. It made us appreciate life and live every day to it's fullest.
A brave soul was out capturing this drama of nature. Click here for image! It is not a pretty sight.

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Definetly not a trading post

So, how do I spend the weekends waiting for the trading to start again? 

http://www.break.com/index/greatest-exercise-ball-stunt-ever.html

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Friday evening

I was away today, and couldn't trade... story of my life.

But I trust a lot of people took this trade. The very foundation for TWADJ.

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Saved by the bell

I was late this evening, and missed the two first trades of the day. 

On the other hand I was available to take the Regular Divergence-trade and had to sweat it out. (RD is more nervous than HD, since other factors have to be calculated, like resistances etc...) 

These two, I missed.

21 pips, 3 780 SEK (Yes, Levelled up this trade)

Start: 25 000 SEK
BR Now: 124 573 SEK

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Silence is Golden

Didn't have much to do today, and the phones were silent, so I took a Gold trade. 
It seemed to have hit a resistance here, so I closed it. 

18 pips, 2 160 SEK

Start: 25 000 SEK

BR Now: 120 763 SEK

And it is time to level up. 

It has been 120 SEK/PIP. 

Now that is increased to 180 SEK/PIP.

About £20 in case you were wondering. :) 

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Early trade

For once we didn't have to wait so long for a trade.
21 pips came the way it is supposed to - Reg Div around 18. (1700 for you UK:ers)

21 pips, 2 520 SEK

Start: 25 000 SEK
BR Now: 118 603 SEK

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Head banner

I have changed the head banner to this blog. What do you think? Too tacky? Nice? 

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TWADJ this evening

There was a trade today. I missed it due to work, but I know some took it. 
20-22 pips or so... 

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Anatomy of a trade

Am currently in a trade.
10 pips secured.

Engulfing Candle - TrendFX - EUR/USD.
We'll see how it goes.

EDIT:

EDIT 2: 

This trade was helped by the news at 14:30. 

56 pips, 6 720 SEK

Start: 25 000 SEK

BR Now: 116 083 SEK

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Starting the week with a loss

Good signal. Perhaps the Hidden Divergence shouldn't hang on a MacD-peak.
Going to ask about that. And does it matter that the Spinning Top was 'bullish'. 
Lots of questions for Sir Nick. 

-27 pips, -3240 SEK

Start: 25 000 SEK

BR Now: 109 363 SEK

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Definetly not a trading post

Just for fun.
He is singing about my former teen geekdom.

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Nice ending to the week

I was busy during this evening, so I actually missed one trade and caught the other. 
This time I caught the right one and missed the wrong one. Not that it matters much, since the second would have made the loss back.

33 pips, 3 960 SEK

Start: 25 000 SEK
BR Now: 112 603 SEK

Just giving a heads up that this 'trial' will seize after this month. 

I'll post the excel-file here as well for those who wants to see it. 

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Why o Why

Why did I have to take that second trade? Because it was there, that's why! 
It didn't win, but still...

2 trades today. 23 pips and -11 pips.

23 pips, 2 760 SEK

-11 pips, - 1320 SEK

Start: 25 000 SEK

BR Now: 108 643 SEK

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Textbook Regular

A nice Regular Divergence and a Piercing line later and we were in a trade. 
I got 36 pips. 
(Yes, the image says 38. I got it wrong.) 

36 pips, 4 320 SEK

Start: 25 000 SEK

BR Now: 107 203 SEK

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Two losses

Sweden kicked Germany's ass. (Yes, 4-4 from a 4-0 position is kicking ass.) 

Tradingwise it was a dull day. Two losses. -24 pips. 
I can feel my confidence drop rapidly after two losses in a row. (Yes, that isn't very common.) 
Every time that happens I go through my saved charts for a few months back. Just to get back in the 'groove' and to see if I made any mistakes. 

Make a mistake once - too bad.
Make the same mistake again - you deserve to lose the money. 

-24 pips, -2 880 SEK

Start: 25 000 SEK

BR Now: 102 883 SEK

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Definetly not a trading post

I notice that I have quite some traffic on saturdays and sundays as well. Sometimes even more than on mondays. Wednesday are by far the most visited day.

But for you who visit my blog on the weekends I'll start to put something here, sometimes trading related, and sometimes not.

This isn't. It is a song by the excellent "The White Buffalo" from the TV-series Sons of Anarcy.

Have a nice weekend!

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What a slow evening

I was not going to repeat my mistake from last night and leave early, and towards the end of the evening I was rewarded with a trade. 
It gave me 21 pips in the end. 

Quite a few brave troopers were still in chat and took that trade as well. Good on'ya as the aussies say. 

21 pips, 2 520 SEK

Start: 25 000 SEK

BR Now: 105 763 SEK

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Quiet day at the office

Pretty calm day with not many housecalls so, what to do? I opened up the charts, and right away there was a trade on Gold. I even got it a few pips 'cheaper' since it had moved down after triggering. 

24 pips, 2 880 SEK

Start: 25 000 SEK

BR Now: 103 343 SEK

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Beige book

I'm gonna tattoo Beige Book on my forehead so I don't miss it a third time. 
Perfect signals today, but it was only a few minutes before Beige Book. 

Goes to show that trading is more than just charts... once again. 

Now, I didn't take it, but there were another trade later on that made up for the loss. Doesn't help me though. 
I gotta learn to walk the dog before the trading session starts.

-22 pips, -2 640 SEK

Start: 25 000 SEK

BR Now: 100 363 SEK

Here is the other trade that came later on. 

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Extra trade

Within TWADJ there are two extra trading systems. One of them gave a signal today, and although I haven't traded the extra systems a lot, I thought I'd give them a go now. 

A thing to remember is that it is probably not a good idea to trade the extra trades when there is no trend present... As with any other system. 

1 isn't much of a sample, but this one didn't work out. -27 pips. 

Ah, well...

There is always tomorrow!

-27 pips. - 3 240 SEK

Start: 25 000 SEK
BR Now: 103 003 SEK

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Trade for today

It is a bank holiday today in the US (and Canada!). 
Thus I won't be trading tonight. There might not be any volumes to trade. 

But I just had an Oil trade. 

21 pips, 2 520 SEK

Start: 25 000 SEK
BR Now: 106 243 SEK

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Definetly not a trading post

Today I got to shake hands with my childhood hero, Marc Singer. 
A genuinely nice guy. 

Now, back to trading! 

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Stalling...

It took some time before a signal today. Perhaps that was mostly because there was a FOMC meeting. 
News were coming.

They didn't impact much. But perhaps they stopped the trend.

I had to leave the trade with 4 pips. I know, it could be worse. 

4 pips. Not counting that. 

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Survey!

To the right is one simple question. Please answer.

Today there were two trades. (There were perhaps more, but these were the clear ones.)
Both gave 20 pips easily.

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2 trades today

There might have been more, but this is what I took.

1 slow loss of -13 pips and 1 win of 20 pips. 

7 pips, 840 SEK

Start: 25 000 SEK

BR Now: 103 723 SEK

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Anatomy of a trade

Well, not really an anatomy, but more a short instruction on how to get more than 20 pips per trade. 

Moving the stop loss down, following the trend, 

closing in as much as possible. 

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Two in one...

I was on the phone a lot this afternoon. 
While I was talking I saw two trades. One at a time. 
First one lost, but the second won. 

+11 pips, 1320 SEK

Start: 25 000 SEK

BR Now: 102 883

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