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A bit more consistency last week, which resulted in a slight positive gain overall.
20 April 2009

  Date     
Entry Time  
Market        
Direction  
Entry         
Exit         
Pips  

  20 April
08:22:18
EUR/USD
Long
1.2980
1.2973
(7)

  20 April
11:07:40
EUR/USD
Long
1.2930
1.2923
(7)

  20 April
11:32:18
EUR/USD
Short
1.2910
1.2904
6

  20 April
15:13:17
EUR/USD
Long
1.2930
1.2930
0

  20 April
20:02:52
EUR/USD
Long
1.2910
1.2897
(13)

20 April pips: (21)
21 April 2009

  Date     
Entry Time  
Market        
Direction  
Entry         
Exit         
Pips  

  21 April
08:19:38
EUR/USD
Long
1.2940
1.2937
(3)

  21 April
14:16:25
EUR/USD
Short
1.2950
1.2940
10

  21 April
20:02:40
EUR/USD
Short
1.2930
1.2929
1

21 April pips: 8
I missed being able to take a trade that would have netted 15 pips at 11:00. Bummer.
22 April 2009

  Date     
Entry Time  
Market        
Direction  
Entry         
Exit         
Pips  

  22 [...]

Plenty of titbits picked up this week. All of which can probably just be summarised as: stick to the plan, dammit!
13 April 2009

  Date     
Entry Time  
Market        
Direction  
Entry         
Exit         
Pips  

  13 April
11:16:31
EUR/USD
Long
1.3330
1.3327
(3)

  13 April
14:04:17
EUR/USD
Short
1.3359
1.3364
(5)

  13 April
20:00:23
EUR/USD
Short
1.3369
1.3365
4

13 April pips: (4)
Just about everywhere markets were closed on Easter Monday. My original intention was to take the day off, just like I had on Good [...]

The reasons for picking the hours I did to trade the Bunny method were mainly just the result of experience and deduction.
London and New York are the two main locations and time zones in which currencies are traded therefore it seems logical to posit that the greatest amount of trading activity occurs on their watch [...]

Here’s how my trading went last week trying to implement the Bunny method.
5 April 2009

  Date     
Entry Time  
Market        
Direction  
Entry         
Exit         
Pips  

  5 April
19:01:55
AUD/USD
Short
0.7160
0.7168
(8)

  5 April
20:04:10
AUD/USD
Long
0.7180
0.7188
8

5 April pips: 0
I tested out both the 19:00 and 20:00 EST hourly openings as I wasn’t sure if the DST changes that had taken place in Australia over the weekend had also taken effect in Japan or [...]

After trawling a whole load of different trading ideas I decided that it was time to see what my mind would concoct as a trading method.
Certain ideas and practices that I had come across were definitely stickier in that they had remained embedded in my mind. It was probably because there was a critical [...]