26 January 2009
I feel that I have learnt enough from my experimenting with the fti approach for it to be worthwhile returning to my scalping approach. I had originally anticipated that it might take me till the end of February to reach this point but after some reflection over the weekend I felt that the last three weeks provided plenty of insight on which to draw upon.
The first two changes I’m making to my scalping strategy is to only trade EUR/USD and to only place trades during the NY session during when I am able to actively monitor the market. No more overnight limit orders or dividing my attention across three markets.
My daily goals are to secure at least three profitable trades a day. I will be very cautious after five trades and thus it’ll be very unlikely if I make more than five or six trades in a single day. In pretty much every other area I’m still sticking to my original scalping guidelines.
The only other area that I am likely to change is the size of trades either during the drawdown of an open trade or after a loss has been booked.
| Trade | Market | Direction | Entry | Exit | Pips |
| 1 | EUR/USD | Long | 1.2992 | 1.3002 | 10 |
| 2 | EUR/USD | Long | 1.3150 | 1.3160 | 10 |
| 3 | EUR/USD | Long | 1.3185 | 1.3189 | 4 |
| 4 | EUR/USD | Short | 1.3178 | 1.3167 | 11 |
| 5 | EUR/USD | Short | 1.3120 | 1.3110 | 10 |
| 6 | EUR/USD | Short | 1.3175 | 1.3165 | 10 |
Total daily pips: 55
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