Quick update.... New accountWell first of all, above you'll see a picture of my home office. Its made up of items from other systems i've had that I just put together, including the furniture. I only have 3 monitors at the moment but as I open more brokerage accounts I'll be upgrading my system to something more reliable. I'l…
5/16/2012 -$13.20 (GBP Claimant Count Change)Well this is another trade I wasnt expecting much out of, as such I only traded it with .3 lots. The spike was all but over before I was even triggered into the trade which means I got filled at the very top of the spike and took a small 4 pip loss, I got out fast mainly because gbp/usd was in such …
5/13/2012 +$2.10 (NZD Retail Sales)Yes you read that right, I made $2.10 cents on this trade. The market was dead and I traded this against my better judgement with very low lots, 0.3, and it basically did what I expected it to do. I was able to take .7 pips out of the market on this trade before it retraced very hard. This is why I …
5/11/2012 +$341 (CAD Employment change)I was a bit nervous with this trade as sometimes the unemployment number will deviate in a different direction as the employment numbers but that wasnt the case here. Everything went as it should and I was able to pull 30 or so pips out of the market. (Go full screen and switch quality to 720p to se…
5/2/2012 +$211 (NZ employment change, small move)After some technical difficulty yesterday I finally have the new broker working with my software properly. The move wasn't too big but its a good start, hopefully a sign of things to come. Also I didnt notice any broker manipulation so lets hope it stays that way. Lastly ill be moving my lot size u…
