Archive for month: February, 2009

27 February 2009

27 February, 2009 (14:54) | Journal | By: Colin McGinley

A pretty wild day in the markets to round out the month. US 4th quarter GDP was the main talking point coming in at -6.2% (forecast: -5.4%).
EUR/USD was pushing down to 1.2600 on the release of the news. There was no follow through on the worse than expected number which seemed to indicate [...]

26 February 2009

26 February, 2009 (17:49) | Journal | By: Colin McGinley

I had a short order open at the time of posting my daily update yesterday (denoted by the red and green lines in yesterday’s chart).
That trade is being recorded on today’s ledger as it closed out after 17:00 EST (which is when I close my book for the day).
I had four further trades during today’s [...]

Breaktime

25 February, 2009 (22:14) | Journal | By: Colin McGinley

Sometimes it’s beneficial to flex your mental acumen in different ways. I came across two great little puzzle games today that can help you do just that.
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Even as a professional game developer I still love coming across such gaming gems. In fact, I often despair that such creativity and uniqueness seems to primarily [...]

25 February 2009

25 February, 2009 (17:32) | Journal | By: Colin McGinley

This morning I started off with having to deal with a mistake. I left a buy limit order at 1.2800 active overnight which is something I should not be doing.
The order got hit at 6:45 am EST and I was left pondering how to handle it when I opened up my trading platform and [...]

23 & 24 February 2009

24 February, 2009 (16:36) | Journal | By: Colin McGinley

Today has turned out to be a really good test of the latest update I have made to my trading strategy.
I had two losses today and was able to recover from both of them to still end the day in positive territory. Even a single pip gain for the day still means that my [...]