26 January 2009

26 January 2009 (17:24) | Journal | By: Colin McGinley

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  
  1EUR/USDLong1.29921.300210
  2EUR/USDLong1.31501.316010
  3EUR/USDLong1.31851.31894
  4EUR/USDShort1.31781.316711
  5EUR/USDShort1.31201.311010
  6EUR/USDShort1.31751.316510

Total daily pips: 55

EUR/USD chart - 26 January 2009

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