Wednesday, September 03, 2008

Two Trades Lost

Total lost 66pips

#13-14 (part 2)



Trades Won at "Take Profit."
#13
22 Pips won

#14
6 Pips won

Total 28

Record
  • Won: 194 pips
  • Lost: 46 pips



Changed Time Zone

I changed my time zone back to EST because of the difficulty I had identifying the proper direction of the daily trend...Hopefully this doesn't hurt me.

Tuesday, September 02, 2008

#15

EDIT: ORDER CANCELED

#14

#12-13

EDIT: #12 ORDER CANCELED

#11

EDIT: ORDER CANCELED

#10

EDIT: ORDER CANCELED

#8-9 (Part 2)



Trades Won at "Take Profit."
#8
67 Pips won

#9
31 Pips won

Total 98

Record
  • Won: 166 pips
  • Lost: 46 pips

Monday, September 01, 2008

The DIBS Method

I found this link on www.forexfactory.com and I believe it may be what I'm trying to accomplish.

http://www.forexfactory.com/showthread.php?t=86766

A little hard to digest all of this...Gonna have to read it a few times.

#9 (Changed Time Zone)

Changed Time Zone to Mirror GMT+0

Platform: Oanda (Demo)
Charts: 1 hour
Currency: USD/JPY
Long
Limit Order: 108.590
S/L: 108.255
T/P: 108.900
Inside Candle: 01:00

#5 (part 2)

Talked with Alan, we both kind of thought this would happen, due to the resistance at this point.

Trade Lost at "Stop/Loss."

25 Pips lost

Record
  • Won: 68 pips
  • Lost: 46 pips

#6 (part 2)

Trade Won at "Take Profit."

29 Pips taken

Record
  • Won: 68 pips
  • Lost: 21 pips

#8

Platform: Oanda (Demo)
Charts: 1 hour
Currency: GBP/USD
Short
Limit Order: 1.78640
S/L: 1.79350
T/P: 1.77970
Inside Candle: 19:00

#6 and #7

The inside candle breaks the open, so I placed trades above and below the inside candle.
#6
Platform: Oanda (Demo)
Charts: 1 hour
Currency: USD/JPY
Long
Limit Order: 108.200
S/L: 107.885
T/P: 108.490
Inside Candle: 19:00

EDIT: Order #7 Canceled (Market went other direction and didn't look back)

#7
Platform: Oanda (Demo)
Charts: 1 hour
Currency: USD/JPY
Short
Limit Order: 107.850
S/L: 108.165
T/P: 107.560
Inside Candle: 19:00

#5

Platform: Oanda (Demo)
Charts: 1 hour
Currency: EUR/USD
Short
Limit Order: 1.45700
S/L: 1.45945
T/P: 1.45470
Inside Candle: 19:00

I think I was confused a bit about time zones when I made this trade...It could mean a bad trade was made here.

#4 (part 2)

Trade Won at "Take Profit."

Record
  • Won: 39 pips
  • Lost: 21 pips