$$ trading update

i closed out thursday.





can't complain about decemeber. jan should be better one hopes. less interruptions. we haven't done pair selection yet, so we're trading with pairs in here that doesn't work. i'm waiting to see of even they turn green, but if we use just the top ten pairs you can double these results. if we then double the trade sizes to make up for the lost pairs you can double the results again...

trading update

more pain. july is almost over. let's hope we get going by aug. hate to suffer through another week like this. draw down is still 15.27% so no lower balance losses, but that's 7 days down in a streak. markets is pretty abnormal though. we're not moving in waves anymore, but staccato's, short sharp almost random moves. we're not designed for that. i think there's a lot intervention in the markets. we just have to keep trading till we're through.

daily change

there we go, rather late than never. so we lost -0.52% that takes our monthly gain to 6.16% for july. so sad...what is encouraging is we didn't go negative on the month so far, even though it's a really tough market.

trading update

just plugging along, thank heavens this is auto. hate to have to wade through a week like this on manual.

trading update

US session was disappointing, got a bit whipped during the day, but clawed it back, no real action in the market at the moment, no direction to talk off...

trading update

yesterday was very good. we're about to hit the first level of compounding. june was a very sideways month. i'm hoping we have a hectic month or two which would build just the kind of foundation we need under this thing.

trading update

right, so this is us live. business as normal, been a nice few days.

trading update

right, so we did about 1.5% for the week. what's really important here is the draw down. we gave up about 5% of our profit in 3 days, or 1.6% a day. so from a sustainability point of view we can in affect take 20 days - a full trading month - of this and still be in business if these are the worst conditions we encounter. our pain was caused by the market conditions in the chart below. the question is how often and how long? do i think it's acceptable in terms of survivability? i think so yes.

trading update

been a really tough week. for consistency here's the overall graph, then i'll zoom in on the week.

trading update

still getting whipped around, not really going anywhere.

trading update

chugging along, yesterday was a mess. lots of whips. today probably going to be the same. if i get out of this week with my pants intact i'd be a happy camper.

trade update

ibfx went and consolidated my history. i've decided to take this EA live this week. so there's not much point in continuing this specific set of results, but for time being they'll just keep reminding me i'm winning. for the live account i'll print my statement live to the web, which means it'll never be older than 5 minutes and since it comes from the server never interrupted. i'll post that link when i make switch.

trading update

right, i think we cracked that rather convincingly. having a period of over performance, so we should hit a patch of non performance soon. i would expect to draw down back to $3000 to establish the new base for us. the trade sizes are probably a bit on the large size considering the equity swings, but i can live with it, a draw down of 30% at some point should be expected at this pace though...

trading update

slow day yesterday.

trading update

not much happened overnight. hectic whip on eurnzd there which caused that last down tick. positions remains mostly the same, about 3% unrealized. i expect dollar strength to resume today, so hopefully we'll bank some later.



and now i'm off to breakfast, coconut noodle soup none the less.

trading update

flying, i still have about 4% unrealized, so i think we'll break through hard on the previous equity high and keep going.

trading update

Still clawing back, about 1% - 2% a day at the moment. not entirely sure, every $30 is just over 1%.

usdjpy update

doing well on this one

usdchf

update summary

ya well, not much i can say - figures are simply incredible.

just want to point out this is still demo. we've added 10 pairs, bringing us up to 30 and we still need to test a duplicate login. we have one change to make for restarts and then we go live. just small technical changes.

eurgbp

i'd be to scared to trade this, but my EA doesn't seem to have issues, i'll leave it while i go for a row in the river Mae Ping.

audnzd

this puppy also ready for a sell or a bounce