trading update

sorry for absence. i was at a thai wedding and after that it was paperwork to stay in thailand. trading wise nothing's changed. still losing slowly. markets just ain't budging. i'll pull the plug at 2k and wait for better conditions. very frustrating market, but at least we took 8 weeks of nothing and we're still in the game, which is a small victory in itself.

trading update

at last. bit of green. today is going to be very volatile, due to interest rate announcements. so i'm hoping for a good run. we're up 2% now for july.

trading update

we came out of NFP slightly ahead for a change and bounced of the new lows on the equity. quite a few pairs traded lower lots, but we're back to normal for now. i hope that's the end of it now and that we're going to start getting normal ranges...looks a lot better.

trading update

right, so we do stats calender month to calender month. this is august so far, it obviously picked up from end of month july. markets have stalled again. i thought we'd get going with the break down on usd index. no such luck.

random travel photo

it's a colorful knot, and what holds the ferries together in philippines. that and a few cable ties!

trading update

right, so we've broken the down trend and now the long haul back up starts. at this point its becoming a question of streaks. and the size of them. we haven't seen any decent winning streaks in july and august is to soon to tell, in june we had a hectic one. right now we're up 1% for the month, despite a 3% gain on monday. the failure of the usd breakout didn't really help our cause. but it's about consistency, and i think there is enough volatility in the market to keep us banking positive days.

month end

starting to see signs of life. officially we ended the month on an abysmal -14.7% with max losses of -15.59%, the max draw so far is 23.15% on the portfolio. we have +2% open and unrealized. with the volatility returning to the dollar and a hectic data week i'm hoping we can get some gains under the belt for a change.