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[ordinaryguy76]

This is going nicely on Greece worries, +£9.20 open.
Will US play ball ?

 

[ordinaryguy76]

9 pm trade looks like UP. Could be interesting weekend.

 

[ordinaryguy76]

SL moved to 1345.0 (+79 pips)

 

[ordinaryguy76]

we'll see whether this was a good decision or not...

 

[ordinaryguy76]

SL moved to 1342.0 (+109 pips)

 

[ordinaryguy76]

SL moved to 1341.0 (+119 pips)
I just don't like the current bar and it's only 20 mins left to close the trade anyway.

 

[ordinaryguy76]

SL hit

Totals for the day:
sell @ 1352.9, closed (SL hit) @ 1341.0. Profit: +£23.80 (+119 pips).

15 winners, 13 losers to date.

Account balance showing: £642.56

New trade at 9 pm.

 

[ordinaryguy76]

Attaching account movements. As usual, one 13p charge did not fit into the screen.

+174 pips this week (+£34.80)
Financing: -£0.99

 

[ordinaryguy76]

There was a bit of a jump at the close and my trade was not accepted 1st time. Result - got worse price.

New trade:

Buy £2.0 S&P500 @ 1343.6, SL 1328.6

Open P/L: +£1.20

 

[ordinaryguy76]

Account balance

 

[ordinaryguy76]

Trade update.

Greeks did well for now...

Profit realised over weekend: +£0.60. Opening price amended automatically to 1343.9.
Account balance: £642.66

Trade currently showing +£12.60

 

[ordinaryguy76]

Trade update.

Greeks did well for now...

Another profit realised: +£14.00. Opening price amended automatically to 1350.9.
Account balance: £656.66

Trade currently showing +£0.20

 

[ordinaryguy76]

Trade still playing out nicely (+£3.60).

I am tempted to increase my stake to £2.30 and introduce opposite trade again (i.e. go back to the original rules). On the other hand, I have higher than expected win/lose ratio at the moment and believe that a few losers are imminent, hopefully small. Increasing stake would just make these bigger. I will probably wait until my win / lose ratio is closer to 50%.

For the future, I don't think I'll do opposite trades over weekends or holidays anyway.

By the way, 9 pm trade looks like UP, unless we get an earthquake today (not literally, of course).

 

[ordinaryguy76]

Totals for the day:
buy @ 1343.6, not closed @ 1351.7. Profit: +£16.20 (+81 pips).

16 winners, 13 losers to date.

Account balance showing: £656.66

Current trade:

Buy £2.0 S&P500 continued @ 1351.7, SL 1336.7

Open P/L: +£2.20

 

[ordinaryguy76]

Trade update.

Loss realised overnight: -£3.00. Opening price amended automatically to 1349.4.
Account balance: £653.49

Trade currently showing -£3.80

 

[ordinaryguy76]

Trade update.

Open P/L: +£6.20

Dunno what the move is about, but I like it so far !

 

[ordinaryguy76]

ah, it's the "economic sentiment" mumbo jumbo.
Who cares, as long as the money rolls in...

 

[ordinaryguy76]

Trade update.

Bite me, it all changed again...
Open P/L: -£7.80

That move down was a couple hours too early as 9 pm trade will be DOWN.

 

[ordinaryguy76]

Another change in direction.

Totals for the day:
buy continued @ 1351.7, closed @ 1351.0. Loss: -£1.40 (-7 pips).

16 winners, 14 losers to date.

Account balance showing: £656.69

Current trade:

Sell £2.0 S&P500 @ 1351.0, SL 1366.0

Open P/L: +£0.80

 

[ordinaryguy76]

In the meantime, I am playing around with SL using historical data. I might decide to make it smaller, i.e. less pips (at the same time stake would be larger to keep risk level), because I seem to be getting better results with smaller SL where there is no opposite trade. The win/loss ratio goes down somewhat, but losses are much more limited compared to wins.