Archive for month: March, 2009

4 March 2009

4 March, 2009 (17:36) | Journal | By: Colin McGinley

Today is where the rubber really met the road. It’s all plain sailing with my scalping method when profit targets are quickly reached. It takes being off my game and having to stomach a couple of losses in a row to really see how the method holds up. Or to be [...]

2 & 3 March 2009

3 March, 2009 (17:49) | Journal | By: Colin McGinley

Monday was a pretty rangebound day. The tightness of the range made it difficult for me to pick out decent entry points so I was only able to close out two trades. A third entry had to wait until just after the end of NY session to reach its profit target.
Today turned out [...]

February 2009 Review

2 March, 2009 (10:43) | Journal | By: Colin McGinley

There were effectively two different trading phases I went through in February.
The first of these actually started on January 26 when I returned to trading my scalping method. This phase lasted until February 13 where wide ranging action in the market left me flailing and indecisive. I’m fudging the monthly boundaries here to [...]