Natural Gas stopped out. Four losses on the spin, never had that in paper trading. A statistical anomaly, surely . In matters of an 'operational control' nature, I missed the attached trade in EUR/USD which will no doubt hit it's projected target just because I am not in it. The failure has to do with OANDA's Sunday bars, which I am still getting my head around.
Haven’t yet decided if I will posting every trade event, or post a summary weekly or monthly. For now am going to post everything. HONG KONG 33 long entered. Position size is 1.7% rather than 1% due to position sizing constraints. In all honesty I could have put a .85% position on, decided to go bigger but probably shouldn't as I do feel uncomfortable about it and am imagining the psychological impact of loss #5 with bigger size. This really is squeaky bum time.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!!!! I am my own worst enemy, I am so urinated off. Had to sit myself down for a serious chat. I was almost too embarrassed to post this. Entered that HK33 order in wrong hence the confusion around position sizing (which should have set alarms ringing). This morning when I checked in the price was up, without me. At least now I can now put in an order for this GERMANY 30 setup.
Pending Orders JAPAN 225 | D1 | S SILVER | D1 | L Open Trades GERMANY 30 | D1 | L I know I said I would have only one concurrent open trade in each market category, I meant one open trade in each direction in each market category.
And we are off! First win of the journal courtesy of the French elections. The less said about "the one that got away", the better. Pending Orders - Cancelled Orders JAPAN 225 D1 S SILVER D1 L Open Trades - Closed Trades (Win) GERMANY 30 D1 L Closed Trades (Loss) - Win/Loss 1 / 4 Win Rate 0.2 Average R:R 2.04
Second crack at my old friend Natural Gas. Pending Orders #82 NATURAL GAS D1 L Cancelled Orders - Open Trades - Closed Trades (Win) - Closed Trades (Loss) - Win/Loss 4 / 1 Win Rate 20% Win Average R:R 2.04
Those stats are a complete waste of time! Stick to one market! Do you want to "trade", or do you want to make money?