Archive for year: 2007

A little ‘Thank You’

13 December, 2007 (14:18) | Psychology | By: Colin McGinley

Did you know that the practice of gratitude can increase your level of happiness by around 25%?
Saying ‘Thank You’ for the things in life that we are grateful for seems like such a simple and easy thing to do, but I’m surely not alone in doing this far too infrequently.
To rectify the situation I’d [...]

Speak your mind

10 December, 2007 (16:15) | Journal | By: Colin McGinley

It can often be hard to tell the difference between what is a scam and what’s the real deal when evaluating a forex product.
Is the forex broker you’re investigating reputable and honest? Is their trading platform stable and their customer service prompt and helpful?
Is that forex ebook you’ve come across really worth $70?
Up till [...]

Hold

7 December, 2007 (16:52) | Journal | By: Colin McGinley

There has been a movie quote running through my head all day ever since the NFP numbers were released this morning.
It took me a while to remember where the quote comes from. After a couple of hours of it running through my mind I realised it was a line said by William Wallace in [...]

November 2007 Review

2 December, 2007 (21:02) | Journal | By: Colin McGinley

In November 2007 I closed out 32 trades.
I had 23 profitable trades and 9 were closed out in negative territory. I have five trades still open going into December.
Pretty much all the profitable trades were in EUR-USD and USD-JPY. It was only on the last day on the month that I had to [...]

Mental drain

2 December, 2007 (21:00) | Journal | By: Colin McGinley

I have seemingly weathered the worst of the drawdown I was experiencing.
In an earlier journal entry I stated that I saw the middle of last week as a key time in determining if AUD-USD would continue on its descent or if it would hold firm and maybe even resume its long term upward trend. [...]