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9/12/13 +$312.50 (WASDE *LIVE*)

 

Today we had the World agricultural supply and demand estimates. This trade has been pretty safe over the past year, the only losses i've taken on it were due to my own inexperience. After doing a bit of research last night I decided to use a 25 as my tp which worked out very well for a profit of 25 ticks. Also im not sure if ill continue to update the news event calendar link to the right. If you'd like me to keep that up let me know in the chat or in the comments. If no takers it will be removed. Thats it for now, take care everyone. (To test JOBB for yourself CLICK HERE )

9/12/13 +$480.00 (Natural Gas)

Natural gas is one of those trades that has the potential to move 100 ticks but it also can have huge amounts of slippage and whipsaws and other bad things us news traders want no parts of. Today however things went smoothly, no early spike or anything. Ill be watching this in the future to see if things continue like this. (To test JOBB for yourself CLICK HERE )

9/11/13 +$187.50 (10 year bond auction)

Well I decided to test this one again with a tight Take Profit of 5, it hasn't had an indecisive reaction in the last year or so but has had several dull. Ill keep this one on the radar and see how it does going forward. (To test JOBB for yourself CLICK HERE )

Trading Account Update

I've decided to take out $2500 of my original $3000 which means im basically just trading with profits now. It seemed like the right thing to do at this time. Lets hope things get back to normal in news trading going forward. I'm still reviewing several systems trying to decide what i'd like to test out next so that will be updated at some point in the near future. Take care folks.

9/6/2013 -$500.00 (NFP *LIVE*)

Well there's not much to say here. After over a year of winners NFP has finally given a loss. Whats even more annoying is that I could of gotten my stop to break even had the cursor been on the chart but for some reason I had it at the top of the screen. I lost 7 ticks on this one but because I used money  management I only lost 6% of my account this week. The last 3 nfp releases have had early spikes and this is becoming a concern. We'll simply have to wait and see if it stops or continues. Anyway dont lose hope folks, taking losses is a part of trading, as long as we manage our funds properly we'll come out ahead in the end. (To test JOBB for yourself CLICK HERE )

9/3/13 +375.00 (ISM Man. PMI)

Its been several weeks since i've been able to trade but I have my internet back now and hopefully this week we can get things back to normal. This trade has been doing well lately on the zb and that trend continued today. After spiking down there was a short pause before it continued pushing down. Unfortunately I exited at that short pause and missed about half the move. Several other traders I spoke to were able to take up to 16 ticks on this one. Anyhow if you'd like to try JOBB click HERE and start testing. (Go full screen and switch quality to 720p to see the video better)