Archive for category: Journal

Three Little Ps

28 October, 2011 (14:43) | Journal | By: Colin McGinley

Trading can be a total roller coaster at times. The unrelenting risk-on that has unfolded all of October being a case in point. Try as I might, I just couldn’t put my head into full-on Euro bull mode. In the end that has cost me.
In EUR/USD it meant I [...]

September 2011 Review

4 October, 2011 (15:06) | Journal | By: Colin McGinley

As another month has rolled around (okay, so I’m a bit slow) I think it’s time to get some statistics up on how my return to millipede trading is going. In the six weeks that I’ve been trading live again:
Total number of closed trades: 52
Number of open trades: 20 (18 of which have their [...]

Cheeky

26 September, 2011 (15:56) | Journal | By: Colin McGinley

I got a voice mail last week from a lady ‘at the office of Jason Adams and Forex Pro Cloner’. She advised me to call her back. I can only imagine the upsell she has lined up. I’m almost tempted to call her back and let rip on what a bunch of [...]

The Intervention Lesson

23 September, 2011 (11:09) | Journal | By: Colin McGinley

On the morning of September 6th I thought my blurry, half closed eyes were seeing things when I sat down in front of my trading station. It said that I had a position that was at -633 pips of unrealized loss. A quick look at the charts confirmed the mother of all spikes. [...]

Catch up

1 September, 2011 (16:03) | Journal | By: Colin McGinley

It’s been six weeks since my last journal update. With the start of a new month I thought it was time to document what I’ve been up to trading wise since then. As evidenced by my last post, I spent a couple of weeks trying out the Logical Forex indicators.
That essentially brought to [...]