Trading Journal


April 2011

I continue trading Forex Morning Trade with standard settings: Profit Target = 35, Stop Loss = 40 pips, Break Even = 20 pips, UseLongCandleFilter = true.

Turbo Morning Trade forward test continues with the same values:

FirstProfitTargetPips=35, FirstTargetClosingPercent=50, StopLossPips=40, BreakEvenAtPipsProfit=20, SecondProfitExitStrategy=3, TrailingStopPips=20, UseADRFilter = true, UseLongCandleFilter = true

Please note that Turbo Morning Trade uses partial profit, it exits with 50% of the position on PT #1 and then with the rest on PT #2. So the total result in pips for Turbo Morning Trade EA has to be divided by two to get the real results.
It is because if you’d trade with 0.1 lot, first profit will close 0.05 lot which means you’ll earn only half of the pips value.


Forex Morning Trade

Live account (PFG Best)
Turbo Morning Trade EA

Live account (Alpari UK)
1st April – NO TRADE 1st April – NO TRADE

Weekly summary
(including 4 days ! from March)
3 profits, 1 loss
the week ended with +67.9 pips profit.




Weekly summary
(including 4 days ! from March)
3 profits
the week ended with +91.95 pips profit.



4th April – NO TRADE 4th April – NO TRADE
5th April – SHORT
Entry: 1.61219
SL: 1.61219
P/L: 0 pips
we were just few pips from profit,
unfortunately the price turned the opposite way
5th April – SHORT
Entry: 1.61222
SL: 1.61222
P/L: 0 real pips
6th April – LONG
Entry: 1.63311
SL: 1.63309
P/L: -0.2 pips
again kicked out at BE
6th April – LONG
Entry: 1.63315
SL: 1.63315
P/L: 0 real pips
7th April – SHORT
Entry: 1.62962
SL: 1.62969
P/L: -0.7 pips
what a bad luck again, just 0.6 pips
from the profit and it turned to BE
7th April – SHORT
Entry: 1.62924
SL: 1.62924
P/L: 0 real pips
8th April – LONG
Entry: 1.63809
SL: 1.63806
P/L: -0.3 pips
and BE hit again
8th April – NO TRADE

Weekly summary
3 times BE, no profit, no loss
the week ended with -1.2 pips loss (only by slippage).
It was really a funny week, I don’t remember something
like this happened in the past.
We got also quite a bad luck, every time the trade
almost reached the profit.




Weekly summary
3 times BE, no profit, no loss
the week ended with 0 pips profit.
 
 
 
 



11th April – NO TRADE 11th April – NO TRADE
12th April – SHORT
Entry: 1.62965
SL: 1.62968
P/L: -0.3 pips
12th April – SHORT
Entry: 1.62969
SL: 1.62969
P/L: 0 real pips

A comment to the recent wave of Break Evens
It is already 5th or 6th trade where we got very close to the profit (1-3 pips), but then the trade reversed and we
ended up with BE (0 pips).
I don’t believe in any broker conspiracy or stops hunting, we are too small players for that. In my opinion it is just
a coincidence and bad luck, but I think there’s nothing wrong about temporarily decreasing PT/SL
by 5 pips to 30/35 to get a bigger chance of hitting the profit.
I personally won’t do it, but any of you using my system can consider it.



13th April – NO TRADE 13th April – NO TRADE
14th April – LONG
Entry: 1.63423
SL: 1.63423
P/L: 0 pips
trade opened with quite big slippage
14th April – NO TRADE
15th April – SHORT
Entry: 1.63291
SL: 1.63691
P/L: -40 pips
first stop loss this month, but by a pip only.
If you got more lucky you could get a profit today.
15th April – SHORT
Entry: 1.63295
SL: 1.63695
P/L: -40 real pips

Weekly summary
0 profits, 1 loss
the week ended with -40 pips loss.




Weekly summary
0 profits, 1 loss
the week ended with -40 pips loss.



18th April – SHORT
Entry: 1.62838
SL: 1.62843
P/L: -0.5 pips

18th April – SHORT
Entry: 1.62866
SL: 1.62866
P/L: 0 real pips


Important – Change of parameters
From 19th April I’m changing the recommended settings.
Changes made:
- Entering trade 15 minutes earlier (at 6:15 UK time)
- Stop Loss increased from 40 pips to 45 pips
- BreakEvenAtPipsProfit = 25 (from 20) and BreakEvenAddPips = 5 pips (from 0)
All the other parameters remain as before.
The same change was made also for Turbo Morning Trade settings.

Complete settings for Forex Morning Trade:
ProfitTarget=35, StopLoss=45, BreakEvenAtPipsProfit=25, BreakEvenAddPips=5, UseLongCandleFilter=true

Turbo Morning Trade settings:
FirstProfitTargetPips=35, FirstTargetClosingPercent=50, StopLossPips=45, BreakEvenAtPipsProfit=25,
BreakEvenAddPips=5, SecondProfitExitStrategy=3, TrailingStopPips=20, UseADRFilter = true, UseLongCandleFilter = true



19th April – NO TRADE 19th April – NO TRADE
20th April – LONG
Entry: 1.63456
SL: 1.63505
P/L: +4.9 pips

20th April – LONG
Entry: 1.63460
SL: 1.63510
P/L: +5 real pips
21st April – LONG
Entry: 1.64303
PT: 1.64667
P/L: + 36.4 pips
finally a profit this month
21st April – LONG
Entry: 1.64319
PT #1 (50%): 1.64668 : 34.9 pips / 2
PT #2 (50%): 1.64458 : 13.9 pips / 2
P/L: + 48.8 pips / 2 = +24.4 real pips
22nd April – SHORT
Entry: 1.65148
SL: 1.65612
P/L: -46.4 pips
22nd April – SHORT
Entry: 1.65144
SL: 1.65594
P/L: -45 real pips

Weekly summary
1 profit, 1 loss, 1 BE
the week ended with -5.1 pips loss.




Weekly summary
1 profit, 1 loss, 1 BE
the week ended with -15.60 pips loss.



25th April – LONG
Entry: 1.65181
SL: 1.65231
P/L: + 5 pips
we nearly hit the PT, ended up with BE again
25th April – NO TRADE
26th April – SHORT
Entry: 1.64550
SL: 1.65007
P/L: -45.7 pips
26th April – SHORT
Entry: 1.64545
SL: 1.64995
P/L: -45 real pips
27th April – LONG
Entry: 1.65038
SL: 1.64579
P/L: -45.9 pips
27th April – LONG
Entry: 1.65035
SL: 1.64585
P/L: -45 real pips
28th April – NO TRADE 28th April – NO TRADE
29th April – NO TRADE 29th April – NO TRADE


Whole April summary
9 times Break Even (I count also these 5 pip profits as a BE),
1 profit, 4 losses, the month ended with - 133.2 pips loss.


Whole April summary
6 BE, 1 profit, 4 losses, the month ended with - 145.6 pips loss.


Comment on April results
Month with moderate loss, -133 pips represents around 6% loss of the account (by risking 2% per trade).

The problem this month was a very big number of Break Evens (9), where we ended up with zero, while watching that the price went just few pips from our defined profit target.

This month we changed the settings and entry time, it should improve our trading results.