Tag Archives: EURJPY

Thursday 23rd September – starting back on the intra-day trading

September 23, 2010

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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 […]

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The opportunity cost of indisciplined trading – EU & EJ – +126 points

August 26, 2010

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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 […]

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Ohh the joy of brokers on NFP day! +34

June 7, 2010

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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 […]

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I May have learnt my lesson….

June 1, 2010

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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 […]

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Thursday 20/5/10 Jobbing the EURJPY – +51

May 20, 2010

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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 […]

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Monday 8/3/10 – Fighting Back on the EURJPY – +17

March 8, 2010

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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 […]

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