Archive for month: July, 2008

Grid trading the BWILC way

22 July, 2008 (13:20) | Journal | By: Colin McGinley

There is an excellent post over on the Macrotactics blog that covers the salient points of the BWILC 4×1 methodology in a succinct overview.
It covers the four main pillars of Dirk’s approach to trading as well as a nice summary of strengths and weaknesses of this sort of trading strategy.
While I seem to be [...]

Fact checking

15 July, 2008 (07:41) | Journal, Money Management, News Trading, Technical Analysis | By: Colin McGinley

Over the weekend I decided it was time I got back to catching up the small stack of trading books I have sitting on the shelf. Unsure as to which one to read first I picked out two and read the first 30 pages of each to see which piqued my interest more.
The two [...]

Right Now

12 July, 2008 (17:49) | Journal | By: Colin McGinley

Since I’ve been recently posting monthly reviews to cover my time away from blogging, let’s get things right up to date and look at how July has been going so far for me.
I’ve had four trades closed out in July. The first was entered at 1.5850 on July 2nd and ending up being a [...]

June 2008 Review

10 July, 2008 (21:01) | Journal | By: Colin McGinley

After May’s return to the black side of the ledger, my trading continued to move in the right direction.
There was also symmetry between the two months in the number of trades I took which was again six in total. There were two winners, one breakeven and the remaining three were losers.
The two winners did [...]

May 2008 Review

2 July, 2008 (15:49) | Journal | By: Colin McGinley

With April behind me and a return to basics at hand, May saw most of my time being taken up with my full-time job.
The amount of time I had to focus on trading was severely limited. This time around I paid heed to previous experiences where work was taking up my every moment and [...]