Comments on: Whickty Whack http://www.forexspirit.com/2009/04/08/whickty-whack/ Colin McGinley's journey of forex trading by a thousand cuts Tue, 24 Jan 2012 06:42:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Colin McGinley http://www.forexspirit.com/2009/04/08/whickty-whack/comment-page-1/#comment-1035 Colin McGinley Thu, 09 Apr 2009 18:30:24 +0000 http://www.forexspirit.com/?p=613#comment-1035 Good question. I think you can broadly break down trading activities into two camps: research and implementation. In the research phase you're looking into every nook and cranny to find good ideas, trying to uncover things that you think might suit you. During the implementation phase you try to put everything into practise. This involves everything from backtesting, demo trading, live trading, keeping track of your trades and analysing your records, looking for areas where you can incrementally improve, etc. Often times you'll be doing both simultaneously; you'll be trading your current strategy but reading some trading books or browsing forums during your free time. When I took a break from active trading (doing implementation stuff) last month I wasn't able to make a complete break and ended up stumbling into doing some research instead. I'm just documenting the more interesting things I came across. Some of these might feed into my trading going forward, others might end up being mere curiosities. Time will tell! Good question. I think you can broadly break down trading activities into two camps: research and implementation.

In the research phase you’re looking into every nook and cranny to find good ideas, trying to uncover things that you think might suit you.

During the implementation phase you try to put everything into practise. This involves everything from backtesting, demo trading, live trading, keeping track of your trades and analysing your records, looking for areas where you can incrementally improve, etc.

Often times you’ll be doing both simultaneously; you’ll be trading your current strategy but reading some trading books or browsing forums during your free time.

When I took a break from active trading (doing implementation stuff) last month I wasn’t able to make a complete break and ended up stumbling into doing some research instead.

I’m just documenting the more interesting things I came across. Some of these might feed into my trading going forward, others might end up being mere curiosities. Time will tell!

]]> By: MarcoA http://www.forexspirit.com/2009/04/08/whickty-whack/comment-page-1/#comment-1034 MarcoA Thu, 09 Apr 2009 16:03:18 +0000 http://www.forexspirit.com/?p=613#comment-1034 Hi Colin, Your words - "series of shiny trading ideas to catch my beady eyes". I'm puzzled by the number of a directions you now look after appearing so devoted to a single way for so long. Hi Colin,
Your words – “series of shiny trading ideas to catch my beady eyes”. I’m puzzled by the number of a directions you now look after appearing so devoted to a single way for so long.

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