Hello fellow traders from Co Louth, Ireland where I find myself this week with my family. Its been an interesting week to hear the Irish Governments Budget and their austerity plans (and the people’s reaction) in the context of the Friday 9th Euro Summit and all that it holds.  It’s also been interesting to hear [...]

It’s been a slow couple of weeks for my Weekly Growth trades.  Either no set-ups on my charts or orders have been placed but not triggered within their time limit.  This week I’ve had orders in on GBPUSD but alas so far no trigger.  That’s the way it goes sometimes. My Weekly Income Trades triggered [...]

It was the best of times. It was the worst of times. (Apologies to the literate amongst us). Sunday saw my usual short-term and swing trades setting up and I was doing the necessary setup work.  I was also trialling my new brokers platform in an effort to make my Sunday Income trades easier to [...]

I had a really good learning experience yesterday on GBPCHF which I will cover in a separate blog post.  It’s taking some time to put it all together so in the meantime here’s some details on trades this week from the EURJPY. Nothing really exciting, trades triggering hitting first & second  targets before falling back.  [...]

Hey there folks, Well today I decided to get back to the desk nice and early and try out some intra-day trades.  I’m not going to deny that it was a shock to the system to be getting up at 0530 after a few months of later starts but it felt good to at last [...]

Hey traders, Still no intra-day trading but I did manage to take a couple of end of day swings which I closed out for +126 pips profit.  You might be saying that’s a great result however you’d be wrong.  I closed both trades early due to boredom / changing  view.   This is a great story [...]

Ahhh NFP day, either a glorious day of profits or a painful lesson in trading around major news announcements. Today for me was a strange mixture of both, though mostly due to luck did I manage to come away with profit in my pocket. The scores on the doors where: EURUSD -15 GBPUSD 0 EURUSD +11 [...]

The theme of my trading for May seemed to be make pips – lose half – make more pips. All in the space of one day. Today being the 1st June I was clear headed enough to not make the same mistake. Today was make pips – lose a few pips  – finish – go [...]

It’s been a busy, busy day, especially trialling some new ideas on Demo as well as trialling some traders work on EURJPY.  And what a day to be trialling ideas eh? The markets were up and down like a brides nightie!  I really did just end up jobbing the EURJPY. Overall for the day my live trading [...]

Overall last week was a positive one….though I’m starting to investigate my reasons for trading the first week of the month.  More on that another time.  This morning has been an interesting one.  I started with some standard early morning breakouts on Cable and EURJPY, both went long and  both went positive…..before falling back and [...]