A day of impulse but unfortunately couldn't partake in most of it as had line issues - the same day as Time Warner announces their billions of profits! How annoying. Nevertheless was good to hear everyone took something out of the market today. Very pleasing to us - saw an entry from Tammy on the CHF that was classic spit recognition that had Bob and I going wow! Great stuff Tomorrow is NFP - will play it normally as we do - if the set up there prior will take it but flat 5-15 before and after - no heroes on this system! We watch and evaluate the herd's reactionary actions. Still managed to pull out a few trades for the day despite the huge down time which was rewarding at least. Profit = 22 pips Time Instrument Type Symbol Entry Stop Exit Profit/Loss Trade Basis 05/04/2006 02:15pm Forex Cover AUD/USD 0.7715 0.7723 0.7713 0.0002 Momentum Stalled 05/04/2006 12:24pm Forex Cover AUD/USD 0.7727 0.7731 0.7716 0.0011 Trailing Stop 05/04/2006 11:41am Forex Cover AUD/USD 0.7716 0.7723 0.7727 -0.0011 Stopped out 05/04/2006 11:19am Forex Sell USD/CHF 1.23 1.2296 1.2305 0.0005 Trailing Stop 05/04/2006 11:17am Forex Sell USD/CHF 1.2294 1.229 1.2296 0.0002 No Impulse Up 05/04/2006 09:21am Forex Cover EUR/USD 1.2629 1.2628 1.2626 0.0003 Trailing Stop 05/04/2006 09:18am Forex Cover EUR/USD 1.2639 1.2637 1.2629 0.001 Impulse Stall (50%)
Today was May 5, Cinco de Mayo which marks the victory of the Mexican Army over the French at the Battle of Puebla. Althought the Mexican army was eventually defeated, the "Batalla de Puebla" came to represent a symbol of Mexican unity and patriotism - it is a huge day in Texas also and probably explains some of my trading today! That Yen certainly looked like it had more than Tequila to fire it! NFP was some nice setups euro and aussie wise but JPY was something else! Never had so much difficlty with it - never had 7 PG/PL consecutives fail and never seen 3 mm recalcs and 4 80/20 grid failures but that is why we have a system. The logic was avoid the nutters on the Euro on NFP and play with boring old Yen. Johnny Hindsight would have to say well Japan was on holiday and there is next week's currency report. Important but still! Funny thing the momentum boys of NYC should have had their day in such an environment but not to be - just how short JPY are they? Frustrating as they JPY affected the game plan and got out of some super Euro entires on frustration - very dissappointing trading on my behalf. Was a very rewarding week though all the same. Had the same technical isseus with good old Time Warner - have rebuilt a new station with all the indicators to work on upload/download data for Monday so won't be an issue. Profit: = 21 pips Have a grTime Instrument Type Symbol Entry Stop Exit Profit/Loss Trade Basis 05/05/2006 02:10pm Forex Sell EUR/JPY 143.08 143.04 143.17 0.09 80/20 Spit (F) 05/05/2006 01:01pm Forex Cover EURJPY 143.28 143.35 143.25 0.03 Impulse Stall (50%) 05/05/2006 01:01pm Forex Cover EUR/JPY 143.25 143.35 143.24 0.01 Impulse Stall (50%) 05/05/2006 10:53am Forex Sell EUR/USD 1.2722 1.2723 1.2724 0.0002 80/20 Spit (50%) 05/05/2006 10:50am Forex Sell EUR/USD 1.2718 1.2716 1.2722 0.0004 Impulse Stall (50%) 05/05/2006 10:35am Forex Sell AUD/JPY 86.69 86.63 86.76 0.07 No Impulse Up 05/05/2006 10:31am Forex Sell AUD/JPY 86.82 86.73 86.76 -0.06 Stopped out 05/05/2006 10:27am Forex Sell USD/JPY 112.46 112.42 112.4 -0.06 Trailing Stop 05/05/2006 09:27am Forex Sell USD/JPY 112.72 112.76 112.77 0.05 No Impulse Up 05/05/2006 09:23am Forex Sell USD/JPY 112.77 112.73 112.73 -0.04 Stopped out 05/05/2006 09:23am Forex Sell USD/JPY 112.83 112.77 112.75 -0.08 Stopped out 05/05/2006 09:12am Forex Sell USD/JPY 113.08 113.06 113.04 -0.04 Stopped out 05/05/2006 08:37am Forex Cover EUR/USD 1.2748 1.2755 1.2747 0.0001 Trailing Stop (50%) 05/05/2006 08:35am Forex Cover EUR/USD 1.2765 1.2778 1.2748 0.0017 Fulcrum Spit (50%)
First day back trading since my son Samuel's birth and I was hoping for an easy day to ease into it - not to be though. Was very pleased with the first two trades - a gem 61.8% set up on the Euro and we bought the absolute low on the pullback at 1.2833 - trouble is at 42 I exited for breakfast and to recharge the batteries and came back to see one heck of a rip which was tough to short even at these late stages of the rally as we see manic behaviour across all markets - Gold, Copper, Platinum and only the USD. One thing I did get to see was so many good solid trading calls from many of the new traders in the virtual room - very nice. Managed to take home just 11 pips after a bit of fast market made for some jerky trades. Should be more rested tomorrow. Profit = 11 pips Time Instrument Type Symbol Entry Stop Exit Profit/Loss Trade Basis 05/11/2006 11:55am Forex Cover EUR/USD 1.2854 1.2852 1.2841 0.0013 Trailing Stop 05/11/2006 11:44am Forex Cover EUR/USD 1.2844 1.2852 1.2853 -0.0009 Stopped out 05/11/2006 10:44am Forex Cover EUR/USD 1.2825 1.2827 1.2829 -0.0004 Trailing Stop 05/11/2006 10:43am Forex Cover EUR/USD 1.2818 1.2826 1.2827 -0.0009 Stopped out 05/11/2006 09:11am Forex Sell EUR/USD 1.2742 1.2739 1.2739 -0.0003 Trailing Stop (50%) 05/11/2006 09:10am Forex Sell EUR/USD 1.2733 1.2738 1.2742 0.0009 Breakdown retested (50%) 05/11/2006 08:46am Forex Cover EUR/USD 1.2755 1.2758 1.2759 -0.0004 Trailing Stop (50%) 05/11/2006 08:42am Forex Cover EUR/USD 1.2774 1.2767 1.2755 0.0019 Fulcrum Held (50%) 05/11/2006 08:39am Forex Cover EUR/USD 1.2751 1.2754 1.2752 -0.0001 No Impulse Down
Very pleasing - trying to adjust the sleeping patterns can pay off Sunday night saw the squeeze of the NY hopefuls from Friday - played the Euro squeese there and was able to play the classic 1-2 off v of iii and a measured 4 b wave on the Aussie. Missed much of the morning but a very profitable session nevertheless. Open a EURCHF low risk short - high risk reward rising wedge over the figure. Profit = 150 pips Time Instrument Type Symbol Entry Stop Exit Profit/Loss Trade Basis 05/15/2006 06:35pm Forex Cover USD/JPY 110.53 110.62 110.39 0.14 Previous High (F) 05/15/2006 12:14pm Forex Short EUR/CHF 1.5502 1.5512 Continuation Pattern (F) 05/15/2006 07:55am Forex Cover AUD/USD 0.7708 0.7629 0.7629 0.0079 Trailing Stop 05/14/2006 07:47am Forex Cover AUD/USD 0.7742 0.7708 0.7708 0.0034 80/20 Spit (50%) 05/14/2006 06:14pm Forex Sell EUR/USD 1.2938 1.2961 1.2961 0.0023 Trailing Stop
Nice movement today as the corrective wave chopped about. Concentrated on the EURCHF and a nice pennant play on the Euro. Profit = 70 pips. Time Instrument Type Symbol Entry Stop Exit Profit/Loss Trade Basis 05/16/2006 03:32pm Forex Sell USD/JPY 109.77 109.71 109.74 -0.03 No Impulse Up 05/16/2006 03:09pm Forex Sell EUR/CHF 1.5511 1.5508 1.5531 0.002 Murrey 8/8 (F) 05/16/2006 11:26am Forex Sell EUR/USD 1.2816 1.2017 1.2824 0.0008 Trailing Stop 05/16/2006 11:26am Forex Sell EUR/USD 1.2816 1.2813 1.2818 0.0002 Momentum Stalled 05/16/2006 11:25am Forex Cover EUR/USD 1.2839 1.2833 1.2827 0.0012 200 MA (50%) 05/16/2006 11:10am Forex Cover EUR/USD 1.285 1.2856 1.2839 0.0011 50 ma (50%) 05/16/2006 09:42am Forex Sell EUR/CHF 1.5512 1.5508 1.5517 0.0005 Momentum Stalled 05/16/2006 09:24am Forex Cover USD/JPY 110.12 110.18 110.1 0.02 No Impulse Down 05/16/2006 09:17am Forex Cover EUR/CHF 1.5517 1.5517 1.5512 0.0005 No Impulse Down 05/16/2006 09:06am Forex Cover EUR/CHF 1.5531 1.5533 1.5514 0.0017 200 MA (Flat) 05/16/2006 08:53am Forex Cover AUD/USD 0.7654 0.7657 0.7652 0.0002 No Impulse Down 05/16/2006 06:47am Forex Cover EUR/CHF 1.5502 1.5512 1.5513 -0.0011 Stopped out
A great trading day - some very classic KnovaWave set ups. I was pleased with the return of 142 pips - been very rewarding since Samuel joined the team! Could have been much better though as ESignal Struggled to keep up as it got heavy - had to exit a great Euro short at 1.2904 to reboot for their server! Now that would have been nice to have had that still on. What is pleasing without big risks have taken 362 out of the market in the past 3 sessions with out too much risk and being in for only short periods. Yes our methodology is hard work at times but clinical when the chaos arrives - pleasing that we benefit from this rather than get rocked by it. Profit = 142 pips Time Instrument Type Symbol Entry Stop Exit Profit/Loss Trade Basis 05/17/2006 02:57pm Forex Sell EUR/USD 1.2706 1.2727 1.2739 0.0033 50 ma (F) 05/17/2006 11:04am Forex Cover USD/JPY 109.94 109.78 109.71 0.23 Murrey 8/8 (F) 05/17/2006 11:01am Forex Sell AUD/USD 0.7621 0.7616 0.7638 0.0017 Breakdown retested (F) 05/17/2006 10:58am Forex Sell AUD/USD 0.7625 0.7616 0.7638 0.0013 Breakdown retested (F) 05/17/2006 10:51am Forex Sell EUR/USD 1.2756 1.2746 1.2761 0.0005 Momentum Stalled 05/17/2006 10:46am Forex Sell EUR/USD 1.2788 1.2784 1.2793 0.0005 No Impulse Up 05/17/2006 10:40am Forex Sell EUR/USD 1.2786 1.2783 1.2782 -0.0004 No Impulse Up 05/17/2006 10:37am Forex Sell EUR/USD 1.2797 1.2793 1.2801 0.0004 Figure Spit (F) 05/17/2006 10:31am Forex Sell EUR/USD 1.2816 1.1813 1.2812 -0.0004 Stopped out 05/17/2006 08:54am Forex Sell EUR/USD 1.2875 1.2868 1.2896 0.0021 50 ma Spit (F) 05/17/2006 08:54am Forex Cover USD/JPY 109.47 109.46 109.17 0.3 80/20 Spit (F) 05/17/2006 08:53am Forex Cover USD/JPY 109.43 109.48 109.48 -0.05 Trailing Stop 05/17/2006 08:52am Forex Cover EUR/USD 1.2909 1.2904 1.2902 0.0007 Trailing Stop 05/17/2006 08:51am Forex Cover EUR/USD 1.2909 1.2911 1.2912 -0.0003 Trailing Stop
Traded very short term today as much chop and avoided the session with Fed speakers causing many fast jerks - unlucky ona few spits but overall a good day. Profit = 42 pips Time Instrument Type Symbol Entry Stop Exit Profit/Loss Trade Basis 05/18/2006 02:32pm Forex Sell EUR/USD 1.2809 1.2812 1.2816 0.0007 50 ma (F) 05/18/2006 02:27pm Forex Sell EUR/USD 1.2818 1.1814 1.2813 -0.0005 Trailing Stop 05/18/2006 01:10pm Forex Cover USD/JPY 110.72 110.71 110.68 0.04 50 ma Spit (F) 05/18/2006 01:05pm Forex Sell EUR/USD 1.2823 1.2819 1.2827 0.0004 No Impulse Up 05/18/2006 01:04pm Forex Sell EUR/USD 1.2822 1.2823 1.2821 -0.0001 No Impulse Up 05/18/2006 01:00pm Forex Cover USD/JPY 110.84 110.82 110.74 0.1 50 ma (F) 05/18/2006 12:16pm Forex Sell EUR/USD 1.2797 1.2793 1.2817 0.002 80/20 Spit (50%) 05/18/2006 12:15pm Forex Cover EUR/JPY 142.07 142.13 142.11 -0.04 No Impulse Down 05/18/2006 12:15pm Forex Cover EUR/USD 1.2797 1.2803 1.2799 -0.0002 No Impulse Down 05/18/2006 09:46am Forex Sell USD/JPY 110.32 110.25 110.51 0.19 Fulcrum Spit (F) 05/18/2006 09:45am Forex Sell USD/JPY 110.61 110.58 110.56 -0.05 Stopped out 05/18/2006 09:44am Forex Sell USD/JPY 110.66 110.63 110.61 -0.05 Stopped out
Just a few trades - as felt like I needed some quiet time after a heavy week - sleep wise at least. Just a few scalps. Profits = 39 pips Time Instrument Type Symbol Entry Stop Exit Profit/Loss Trade Basis 05/19/2006 02:47pm Forex Cover EUR/USD 1.2782 1.2782 1.2772 0.001 200 MA (Flat) 05/19/2006 02:46pm Forex Cover EUR/USD 1.2777 1.2782 1.2775 0.0002 80/20 Spit (F) 05/19/2006 12:14pm Forex Cover AUD/USD 0.7559 0.7567 0.7565 -0.0006 No Impulse Down 05/19/2006 11:19am Forex Cover EUR/USD 1.2706 1.2705 1.2704 0.0002 Trailing Stop 05/19/2006 11:18am Forex Cover EUR/USD 1.2702 1.2708 1.2709 -0.0007 Stopped out 05/19/2006 09:13am Forex Cover EUR/USD 1.2744 1.2733 1.2723 0.0021 Trailing Stop (50%) 05/19/2006 09:05am Forex Cover EUR/USD 1.2744 1.2748 1.2727 0.0017 Murrey -2/8 (50%)
Today was a story of perserverence - first stop was a frustrating loss as bought the EUR 20 spit and 0/8 at .17 stopped out at .12 offered went 3 pips less and then rallied straight 40 to a total of 70 pips which seemed to sum up the first half of my day. A battle from there but Aussie looked like a perfect rising wedge and after an initial quick stop the combined KnovaWave set up and Copper pullback play paid off - though still exited too early - but not too unhappy with that after the initial battle - the market is at the end of the day a never end test. Have been playing with the concept of allocating USD capital to the one pair over the past fortnight but feel it is better to return to the previous allocation whereby the JPY, EUR, AUD etc are allocated by their merits. I feel it has led to an other senstive trading whereby we have exited positions (profitable) too early and put entry levels "too hopeful" and missed a few. Plus it didn't help on the Euro today particualry the 55 sell It rammed home the limitations of that thinking and showed it was really just scalping with a different dress on! Anyway very happy with the end result - though a long day and thank you Aussie and the NYMEX. Profit: 43 pips Time Instrument Type Symbol Entry Stop Exit Profit/Loss Trade Basis 05/23/2006 05:49pm Forex Sell AUD/USD 0.7506 0.7503 0.7524 0.0018 80/20 Spit (F) 05/23/2006 03:56pm Forex Cover AUD/USD 0.7592 0.7577 0.7563 0.0029 50 ma (F) 05/23/2006 03:27pm Forex Cover AUD/USD 0.7592 0.7595 0.7582 0.001 80/20 Spit (F) 05/23/2006 01:33pm Forex Sell AUD/USD 0.7574 0.7574 0.7578 0.0004 Momentum Stalled 05/23/2006 01:32pm Forex Cover AUD/USD 0.7566 0.7574 0.7578 -0.0012 Trailing Stop 05/23/2006 11:12am Forex Sell EUR/USD 1.2817 1.2813 1.2829 0.0012 Momentum Stalled 05/23/2006 11:11am Forex Sell EUR/USD 1.2843 1.2837 1.2835 -0.0008 Stopped out 05/23/2006 10:45am Forex Cover EUR/USD 1.2855 1.2861 1.2862 -0.0007 Trailing Stop 05/23/2006 10:44am Forex Cover EUR/USD 1.2855 1.2861 1.2862 -0.0007 Stopped out 05/23/2006 10:38am Forex Cover EUR/USD 1.2863 1.286 1.2861 0.0002 Trailing Stop 05/23/2006 10:37am Forex Cover EUR/USD 1.2862 1.286 1.2861 0.0001 Trailing Stop 05/23/2006 10:15am Forex Cover EUR/USD 1.2835 1.2835 1.2833 0.0002 Trailing Stop (50%) 05/23/2006 10:14am Forex Cover EUR/USD 1.2835 1.2841 1.2829 0.0006 80/20 Spit (50%) 05/23/2006 09:35am Forex Sell EUR/USD 1.2817 1.2811 1.281 -0.0007 Trailing Stop
Today can best be summed up by the 1 hour I spent in the dentist's chair getting my teeth cleaned! The market seemed to be a replica of that experience. It was very choppy and gappy and I had my dollar buy orders one grid away this am missing a classic Euro 80 8/8 spit expecting a figure spit (got to 91 and dumped!) - story of the day unfortunately got shaken on the gappy market many a time. Managed to be 24 pips through some missed swings so can't complain too much. See you all tomorrow Profit = 24 pips Instrument Type Symbol Entry Stop Exit Profit/Loss Trade Basis 05/24/2006 03:48pm Forex Cover EUR/USD 1.2787 1.2792 1.2778 0.0009 Trailing Stop 05/24/2006 10:34am Forex Cover USD/JPY 112.66 112.68 112.66 0 Trailing Stop 05/24/2006 10:32am Forex Sell EUR/USD 1.2781 1.2781 1.2786 0.0005 Trailing Stop 05/24/2006 10:27am Forex Sell EUR/USD 1.2783 1.2779 1.2779 -0.0004 Trailing Stop 05/234/2006 10:19am Forex Sell USD/JPY 112.58 112.56 112.69 0.11 Murrey 2/8 (F) 05/24/2006 10:12am Forex Sell EUR/USD 1.2817 1.2815 1.2819 0.0002 Trailing Stop 05/24/2006 10:07am Forex Cover USD/JPY 112.28 112 112.27 0.01 No Impulse Down