Archive for month: October, 2009

Intuition and Market Bias

2 October, 2009 (16:09) | Journal | By: Colin McGinley

I just want to highlight some interesting trading articles that I’ve been perusing this past week.
Van Tharp delves into various forms of intuition that apply to trading. Intuition is something that I am definitely trying to foster. The hard part comes in that it can only be gained via experience, which means [...]

September 2009 Review

2 October, 2009 (15:17) | Journal | By: Colin McGinley

My trading in September was the most comfortable I’ve felt in a long time. I think this comes through in the results.
I placed 10 trades during the month, with 8 winners and 2 losers. As a quick recap, I have been using 5:1 leverage, 50 pip profit targets (in general) and a 100 [...]

Review – 1 October 2009

1 October, 2009 (14:34) | Journal | By: Colin McGinley

Things have proceeded apace nicely since I’ve been back from my holiday. There have been four trades over the prior ten days, netting 250 pips in total. I seem to have reverted to two trades a week, which is definitely reminiscent of how frequently I traded during my strict BWILC days.
I think the [...]