Trading Journal


November 2011

Important! Change in trading settings!
This month I’m changing the Forex Morning Trade settings. The new recommended setting are:

Trading time = 06:30 UK time (07:30 Alpari time)
Profit Target = 35 pips
Stop Loss = 35 pips
Break Even = 25 pips
BreakEvenAddPips = 5
UseLongCandleFilter = true

The reason for this step is unsatisfactory results using the previous settings, I really didn’t like the negative SL:PT ratio. The new settings are return to the standard 1:1 ratio and I believe they’ll give the best results in the long term future.

There’s one more change, I switched FMT trading from PFG Best to Alpari UK, but that doesn’t mean I don’t like PFG.
I’m simply making some reorganization of my trading accounts. If you use PFG there’s no reason to switch.


Forex Morning Trade

Live account (Alpari UK)
1st November – SHORT
Entry: 1.6052
PT: 1.6017
P/L: +35 pips
2nd November – LONG
Entry: 1.59949
PT: 1.60499
P/L: +35 pips
3rd November – SHORT
Entry: 1.5894
PT: 1.5949
P/L: -35 pips
4th November – LONG
Entry: 1.60247
PT: 1.59896
P/L: -35.1 pips

Weekly summary
2 profits, 2 losses
the week ended with -0.1 pip loss.



7th November – NO TRADE
8th November – SHORT
Entry: 1.60367
PT: 1.60719
P/L: -35.2 pips
9th November – NO TRADE
10th November – LONG
Entry: 1.59321
PT: 1.58955
P/L: -36.6 pips
11th November – NO TRADE

Weekly summary
2 losses
the week ended with -71.8 pip loss.



14th November – NO TRADE
15th November – SHORT
Entry: 1.58778
PT: 1.59129
P/L: -35.1 pips
16th November – SHORT
Entry: 1.57661
PT: 1.58018
P/L: -35.7 pips
17th November – NO TRADE
18th November – NO TRADE

Weekly summary
2 losses
the week ended with -70.8 pip loss.



21st November – SHORT
Entry: 1.57424
PT: 1.57071
P/L: +35.3 pips
22th November – NO TRADE
23rd November – SHORT
Entry: 1.56156
PT: 1.55788
P/L: +36.8 pips
24th November – SHORT
Entry: 1.55493
PT: 1.55134
P/L: -35.9 pips
25th November – SHORT
Entry: 1.54568
PT: 1.54568
P/L: 0 pips

Weekly summary
2 profits, 1 loss, 1 BE
the week ended with +36.2 pips profit.



28th November – NO TRADE
LongCandleFilter
29th November – NO TRADE
30th November – SHORT
Entry: 1.55787
PT: 1.55435
P/L: 35.2 pips


November result
-72.3 pips