Just the one trade today - got hit on my trail on a nice KnovaWave Fulcrum spit - took 3 pips and waited for the Australia v. Italy match. For those who don't know Australia lost on a penalty kick 4.50 into injury time - it was a dubious and unsportsmanlike play by the Italian and a very dodgy call by the ref and as for the wanker on ESPN who called it a great play by the Itlaian in milking a fake penalty it says it all why that guy is nameless and faceless - what a turkey. Give me strength! Just put one order on late a short at 1.2604 but no fill - a few others in the room where giving them 20, 25 and 27 pips respectively - nice work Pity I did get it - I felt robbed - twice in the one day Profit = 3 pips Time Instrument Type Symbol Entry Stop Exit Profit/Loss Trade Basis 06/26/2006 09:17am Forex Sell EUR/USD 1.2546 1.2549 1.2549 0.0003 Trailing Stop
Just a few trades in the afternoon - missed a few fills on EURCHF and EURUSD this am by a pip or too and then waited for Paulson's testimony. Not really pushing to hard with the illiquid pre Fed and WordCup marketplace. Profit = 15 pips Time Instrument Type Symbol Entry Stop Exit Profit/Loss Trade Basis 06/27/2006 02:48pm Forex Sell EUR/USD 1.2576 1.2572 1.2579 0.0003 Market Close 06/27/2006 02:36pm Forex Cover EUR/USD 1.2588 1.2594 1.2584 0.0004 Trailing Stop 06/27/2006 02:18pm Forex Cover AUDUSD 0.7337 0.7341 0.7329 0.0008 Market Close
Some nice set ups but got hit on the trail wicks - keeping it very tight as I said with the World Cup and FOMC chatter. Just 13 pips but not too unhappy about that. Profit = 13 pips Time Instrument Type Symbol Entry Stop Exit Profit/Loss Trade Basis 06/28/2006 07:26pm Forex Sell EUR/USD 1.254 1.2536 1.2544 0.0004 Trailing Stop 06/28/2006 03:09pm Forex Cover EUR/USD 1.2556 1.2559 1.2552 0.0004 No Impulse Down 06/28/2006 02:56pm Forex Cover EUR/USD 1.2554 1.2559 1.2556 -0.0002 No Impulse Down 06/28/2006 11:17am Forex Cover EUR/GBP 0.69 0.6907 0.6896 0.0004 Momentum Stalled 06/28/2006 11:00am Forex Sell EUR/USD 1.2517 1.252 1.252 0.0003 Trailing Stop
Just the one trade - very thin and end of month Profit = 4 pips Time Instrument Type Symbol Entry Stop Exit Profit/Loss Trade Basis 06/30/2006 09:26am Forex Sell USD/JPY 114.72 114.68 114.76 0.04 Trailing Stop A difficult month but at least consistent - never would have thought he World Cup would take so much liquidity away. Monthly Profit (June 2006) = 460 pips
Well my first day trading in July and volume though still light is coming back - have to wait until next week after the Italy-France final for normality one suspects. A day of being hit on trailing stops - had them pretty tight given the holes out there - unfortuante as a lot of 20/50 point runs hit the trail just prior to the run. A lot of emphasis on the US jobs in the AM especially with the hoopla with the Markets latest obsession - the AFP prediction number that came out Wednesday - through in Mr. Kim - can't help thinking of the latest South Park movie everytime I hear about the missiles. Nice set ups on the Eur crosses developing on multi time frames so keeping an eye out there. Profit = 19 pips Time Instrument Type Symbol Entry Stop Exit Profit/Loss Trade Basis 07/06/2006 06:00pm Forex Cover EUR/GBP 0.6958 0.6968 0.6955 0.0003 No Impulse Down 07/06/2006 12:24pm Forex Cover EUR/USD 1.2757 1.2762 1.2756 0.0001 No Impulse Down 07/06/2006 10:38am Forex Cover USD/CHF 1.2304 1.2311 1.2301 0.0003 Trailing Stop 07/06/2006 09:24am Forex Cover USD/CHF 1.2297 1.2303 1.2304 -0.0007 Trailing Stop 07/06/2006 09:22am Forex Sell USD/CHF 1.2299 1.2294 1.2304 0.0005 Momentum Stalled 07/06/2006 09:18am Forex Cover USD/CHF 1.2318 1.2313 1.2313 0.0005 Trailing Stop 07/06/2006 08:45am Forex Sell AUD/USD 0.7428 0.7424 0.7433 0.0005 Momentum Stalled 07/06/2006 08:05am Forex Cover AUD/USD 0.7423 0.7429 0.7422 0.0001 No Impulse Down 07/06/2006 07:41am Forex Sell USD/CHF 1.2318 1.2311 1.2324 0.0006 80/20 Spit (F) 07/06/2006 07:39am Forex Sell USD/CHF 1.2324 1.2328 1.2321 -0.0003 Trailing Stop
Nice day - exited way, way early a few times but took home 37 pips. Have been trading sparingly the past fortnight due to the time taken up with KnovaFight and KlubKimo for the upcoming Kimo's Headliner in LA this Saturday and for The Crutchmaster Documentary. Will be in LA for Thursday through Sunday for the prefight and back to trading fulltime Monday. More at www.Klubkimo.com and www.wfa.tv and see the figth on PPV Saturday. Profit = 37 pips Time Instrument Type Symbol Entry Stop Exit Profit/Loss Trade Basis 07/19/2006 03:19pm Forex Sell USD/JPY 116.75 116.77 116.76 0.01 Trailing Stop 07/19/2006 03:19pm Forex Cover EUR/USD 1.2605 1.2602 1.2602 0.0003 Trailing Stop 07/19/2006 03:18pm Forex Cover USD/JPY 116.97 116.79 116.79 0.18 Trailing Stop 07/19/2006 10:08am Forex Cover AUD/USD 0.7485 0.7489 0.748 0.0005 Figure Holding 07/19/2006 09:56am Forex Cover AUD/USD 0.7454 0.7457 0.7447 0.0007 Spit of a Spit (F) 07/19/2006 08:32am Forex Cover USD/JPY 117.84 117.89 117.81 0.03 Momentum Stalled
Well - back to normal trading today - had plenty on so wasn't at the trading desk too much and jsut a few scalps here and there. THe tech guys worked on a few new features which should help the trading and also a few swing scenarios some good some not so good - but had to test them. Be interesting if August is as mellow as in past years as I am sure many traders took their vacations in July for the World Cup - we will see I guess. Be back posting the blog and here from tomorrow and also July's results for you all.
Was out all day yesterday and only partially in today. Will be full time from tomorrowas we have been tweaking a few things and will be accepting trials to the floor again tomorrow - remember the criteria test. Profit = 12 pips Time Instrument Type Symbol Entry Stop Exit Profit/Loss Trade Basis 08/15/2006 09:58am Forex Cover EUR/USD 1.2793 1.2789 1.2789 0.0004 Trailing Stop 08/15/2006 09:58am Forex Cover EUR/USD 1.28 1.2797 1.2796 0.0004 No Impulse Down 08/15/2006 09:17am Forex Cover EUR/USD 1.2794 1.2788 1.2785 0.0009 80/20 Spit (F) 08/15/2006 09:15am Forex Cover EUR/USD 1.279 1.2794 1.2795 -0.0005 Stopped out
One of those days it just didn't carry through on the Forex. We all had a very nice day trading the DAX, Russell and S&P - yes Bob even trading the Nasdaq - what a slow August will drive you to in Forex! Profit = 7 pips Time Instrument Type Symbol Entry Stop Exit Profit/Loss Trade Basis 08/16/2006 10:41am Forex Cover EUR/USD 1.2856 1.2863 1.2852 0.0004 No Impulse Down 08/16/2006 10:39am Forex Cover EUR/USD 1.2838 1.2846 1.2832 0.0006 Momentum Stalled 08/16/2006 10:39am Forex Cover EUR/USD 1.2827 1.283 1.2832 -0.0005 Stopped out 08/16/2006 07:25am Forex Cover EUR/USD 1.2779 1.2784 1.2777 0.0002 No Impulse Down
Just the one trade today - was shy on two EURUSD 80/20 Spits though. Just traded classic 80/20 MM 2-8 on EURJPY on A-B off all time new highs. Got 28 pips on the play - did go higher but nice reward all the same. Profit = 28 pips Time Instrument Type Symbol Entry Stop Exit Profit/Loss Trade Basis 08/17/2006 07:42am Forex Sell EUR/JPY 148.3 148.44 148.58 0.28 Breakdown retested (F)