Archive for year: 2010

Happy Holidays

29 December, 2010 (11:30) | Journal | By: Colin McGinley

While I’ve been keeping my trading pretty quiet over the holiday period I have been posting a bit on Forex Factory. There are two posts I wrote on the millipede thread that I think are worth repeating here.
The first one is all about inevitability.
Graeme, your post on inevitability could not have been better [...]

2010-12-17 Weekly update

17 December, 2010 (16:09) | Journal | By: Colin McGinley

2010-12-13 10:34:25 It’s amazing how having a certain bias completely blinds me to seeing valid trade setups in the opposite direction. Case in point: euro retested the recent 1.3200 low during last night’s Asian session. With my short bias, I did not even consider that it might be a good place to go [...]

2010-12-10 Weekly Review

11 December, 2010 (17:58) | Journal | By: Colin McGinley

2010-12-04 19:42:15 I’ve decided to try and find a way to record my ongoing trading thoughts as I need some way beyond just numbers to analyse my trading performance. Videoing the millipede method isn’t really practical. Twitter only allows 140 characters which I doubt will be enough to record most trading thoughts. [...]

Impossible to fail

30 November, 2010 (17:28) | Journal | By: Colin McGinley

I just wanted to highlight some interesting reading material I’ve come across this week. First up is a book called Wake Up and Live! by Dorothea Brande that was referenced on the Financial Philosopher blog.
The book focuses on a single action item that can be used to propel you to action: act as if [...]

Millipede numbers

15 November, 2010 (16:33) | Journal | By: Colin McGinley

I’ve been trading using the millipede method for just over two months. During that time I’ve been recording my trades in a spreadsheet and I thought it might be time to record them here. The data below is compiled from trading a live account from September 7 through November 13.
I pretty much decided [...]