2015 YEAR IN REVIEW

Time to review 2015.  RESULTS Overall, I finished the year up 18.77%. A large chunk of that growth occurred in the last few months when I be...

A trade I didn't take (GBPUSD)

With the FOMC press conference this week, I decided to sit the whole week out. In fact, I probably won't trade until after New Year'...

Review of November Campaign

November draws a close in a few hours, so I may as well post my results for this month. edit: my last open trade for November just closed. T...

My performance on Majors vs Crosses

I've just notched 104 trades now, and spent tonight going through my trading history. I'm always looking at ways of improving the qu...

WEEK IN REVIEW: 9 Nov to 15 Nov 2015

It's been a quiet week. I only entered one trade and won, pocketing a 0.67R reward. EURAUD I saw a low volatility retracement candle at ...

WEEK IN REVIEW: 2 Nov to 8 Nov 2015

Last week was comfortably profitable. I'd entered four trades, won three and lost one.  EURGBP This trade had been opened the previous w...

MILESTONE: 100 LIVE TRADES!!!

I finally closed my 100th live trade for this year! I started my current portfolio of systems back in May 2015, averaging about 4 trades a w...

STATUS UPDATE: Dropping exotics

I've made the decision to stop trading exotic currency pairs like the EURTRY, NOKSEK and USDHUF. The spread on exotics gets extremely wi...

WEEK IN REVIEW: 26 Oct to 1 Nov 2015

I ended last week slightly down. I opened five trades, with one winner and two losers, and two left open over last weekend.  GBPUSD This tra...

RESEARCH: Low volatility, high volume end-of-retracements (1H)

It's nearly 2am here. I'll post some interesting backtest results, then go to bed. Be warned, this is pretty complicated. Just a bri...

WEEK IN REVIEW: 19 Oct to 25 Oct 2015

This week has been a bit quiet, but profitable. I only entered 3 trades, winning two and losing one, and reversed most of the losses I made ...

WEEK IN REVIEW: 12 Oct to 18 Oct 2015

This post is a few days late. I ended down last week, with 3 losses and 1 win. At the end of the week, I felt very unhappy and walked away f...

RESEARCH: Oanda Vs Alpari Open Ratios

OANDA  and  Alpari  both offer their open position ratios to the public. Basically, you can use this info to gauge retail sentiment before y...

Quick update on current trade stats

I've been trading with my current portfolio of systems since late May 2015. The stats so far (I've normalised the risk level of all ...

RESEARCH: 4H Engulfing Candles on Tuesdays

I did some interesting research on large engulfing candles in the 4H timeframe. I found that Tuesdays seem to perform quite profitably. I ba...

WEEK IN REVIEW: 5 Oct to 11 Oct 2015

I ended this week at breakeven. I opened four trades, won one with a 1R reward, lost one, and got out at breakeven with two other trades. I ...

RESEARCH: Monday Morning Breakouts on Asian Pairs

This is a continuation of the post  RESEARCH: Monday morning breakouts on the USDJPY and AUDJPY . In my previous post, I found that "av...

AUDUSD & EURAUD FORECAST AND TRADE SETUP FOR WEEK ENDING 9TH OCTOBER 2015

AUDUSD & EURAUD FORECAST AND TRADE SETUP FOR WEEK ENDING 9TH OCTOBER 2015 Hourly Chart AUDUSD H1 chart with Ichimoku 1hr and 4 hr on the...

RESEARCH: Monday morning breakouts on the USDJPY and AUDJPY

I just finished backtesting Monday morning breakouts on the USDJPY and AUDJPY. This is based on my findings that 12.5% of the  weekly highs ...

RESEARCH: Time of Weekly Highs and Lows on the AUDNZD

I spent today examining the AUDNZD and the time of its weekly highs and lows. For this analysis, I focused on the 4H chart, using data from ...

WEEK IN REVIEW: 28 Sept to 2 Oct 2015

This post is kinda early as it's Friday night and the markets are still open for awhile longer, but I've closed all my trades so I m...

RESEARCH: Morning breakouts on the AUDJPY part 2

This is part 2 of  Morning breakouts on the AUDJPY . I finished backtesting the rest of 2013, 2014 and early 2015, and collected 412 sample ...

RESEARCH: Morning breakouts on the AUDJPY

I spent this afternoon backtesting morning breakouts on the AUDJPY.  This is based on the 4H timeframe. Basically, I looked for candles at 0...