5/23/13 -$287.50 (German Flash Man PMI *LIVE*)Well right after the bad french trade we get a bad German trade. This time I wasn't able to close out quick enough and I got that same popup which stopped me from moving my stop, very annoying. I think I had negative slippage on this one also as I traded 2 contracts with a 5 point stop which means t…
5/23/13 +$12.50 (French Flash Man PMI *LIVE*)Well this was my first live trade with the french flash and it wasn't good at all. The market moved in my direction and as it did I got an annoying popup that stopped me from moving my stop. Once I closed it I exited with a 1 tick profit and honestly im happy I was able to take that much. This coul…
5/10/2013 -$12.50 (WASDE *LIVE*)Today we had WASDE and I traded it with corn futures. While doing research I noticed 2 months that would of ended in a loss unless I immediately moved my stop to break even once in profit. Knowing this I attempting moving my stop to break even today but I wasnt fast enough, I ended up taking a 1 tic…
5/8/2013 -$187.50 (10Y-Bond Auction test)After the previous release I dont plan to trade this again until its proven itself worth trading. At present im simply testing it and will continue to do so. Today wasn't a good start to that testing as the market shot down and filled me and then shot back up immediately and hit my stop. Hopefully t…
5/5/2013 +$150 (Aus. Retail Sales)Today we had Australian Retail Sales. This has been the safest and most consistent Australian release I've come across. However I've had some bad luck in the past with Sunday news so I decided to test out the 6A and see how it does on Sundays. There was 6 points in slippage which is only 1 point mor…
5/3/2013 +$2375.00 (US NFP *LIVE*)Today we had non farm payroll. Things went as planned accept for a margin error I got twice during the trade. I'm not sure why it happened but I'll be contacting Global to see what that's about. Anyway I wont complain, today was a great trade, lets hope the rest of the month does as well. (To test J…
