Trading Journal


February 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:

Since the beginning of December, I’m starting trading also Turbo Morning Trade EA on a DEMO account, with partial profit settings from the Turbo sales page:
FirstProfitTargetPips=35, FirstTargetClosingPercent=50, StopLossPips=40, BreakEvenAtPipsProfit=20, SecondProfitExitStrategy=3, TrailingStopPips=20, UseADRFilter = true, UseLongCandleFilter = true

This doesn’t mean that this is the best setting, I’m still running the tests. You should do your homework and find the best setting for you.

Also, 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

Demo account (Alpari UK)
1st February- LONG
Entry: 1.6065
PT: 1.6101
P/L: + 36 pips
first profit in the new month
1st February- LONG
Entry: 1.6065
PT #1 (50%): 1.6103 : 38 pips / 2
PT #2 (50%): 1.6095 : 30 pips / 2
P/L: + 68 pips / 2 = 34 real pips
2nd February- LONG
Entry: 1.6158
PT: 1.6193
P/L: + 35 pips
2nd February- LONG
Entry: 1.6157
PT #1 (50%): 1.6192 : 35 pips / 2
PT #2 (50%): 1.6168 : 11 pips / 2
P/L: + 46 pips / 2 = 23 real pips
3rd February- NO TRADE 3rd February- NO TRADE
4th February- SHORT
Entry: 1.6138
PT: 1.6102
P/L: + 36 pips
4th February- SHORT
Entry: 1.6139
PT #1 (50%): 1.6104 : 35 pips / 2
PT #2 (50%): 1.6108 : 31 pips / 2
P/L: + 66 pips / 2 = 33 real pips

Weekly summary
(including 1 day from January)
3 profits, 1 loss
the week ended with +75 pips profit.




Weekly summary
(including 1 day from January)
3 profits, 0 losses
the week ended with +90 pips profit.



7th February- LONG
Entry: 1.6138
PT: 1.6172
P/L: + 34 pips
4th win in a row, very nice winning streak
7th February- LONG
Entry: 1.6139
PT #1 (50%): 1.6174 : 35 pips / 2
PT #2 (50%): 1.6157 : 18 pips / 2
P/L: + 53 pips / 2 = 26.5 real pips
8th February- LONG
Entry: 1.6148
SL: 1.6106
P/L: - 42 pips
8th February- LONG
Entry: 1.6148
SL: 1.6108
P/L: - 40 real pips
9th February- LONG
Entry: 1.6080
SL: 1.6039
P/L: - 41 pips
9th February- LONG
Entry: 1.6078
SL: 1.6078
P/L: 0 real pips
10th February- SHORT
Entry: 1.6095
PT: 1.659
P/L: + 36 pips
10th February- SHORT
Entry: 1.6096
PT #1 (50%): 1.6060 : 36 pips / 2
PT #2 (50%): 1.6056 : 40 pips / 2
P/L: + 76 pips / 2 = 38 real pips
11th February- SHORT
Entry: 1.6036
PT: 1.6000
P/L: + 36 pips
11th February- SHORT
Entry: 1.6038
PT #1 (50%): 1.6003 : 35 pips / 2
PT #2 (50%): 1.6007 : 31 pips / 2
P/L: + 66 pips / 2 = 33 real pips

Weekly summary
3 profits, 2 losses
the week ended with +23 pips profit.




Weekly summary
3 profits, 0 losses
the week ended with +57.5 pips profit.



14th February- LONG
Entry: 1.6059
PT: 1.6018
P/L: - 41 pips
14th February- NO TRADE
15th February- LONG
Entry: 1.6042
PT: 1.6077
P/L: + 35 pips
15th February- LONG
Entry: 1.6042
PT #1 (50%): 1.6078 : 36 pips / 2
PT #2 (50%): 1.6050 : 8 pips / 2
P/L: + 44 pips / 2 = 22 real pips
16th February- LONG
Entry: 1.6163
PT: 1.6162
P/L: - 1 pip
16th February- LONG
Entry: 1.6162
SL: 1.6162
P/L: 0 real pips
17th February- LONG
Entry: 1.6110
PT: 1.6145
P/L: + 35 pips
17th February- LONG
Entry: 1.6109
PT #1 (50%): 1.6144 : 35 pips / 2
PT #2 (50%): 1.6123 : 14 pips / 2
P/L: + 49 pips / 2 = 24.5 real pips
18th February- NO TRADE 18th February- NO TRADE

Weekly summary
2 profits, 1 loss, 1 BE
the week ended with +28 pips profit.




Weekly summary
2 profits, 0 losses
the week ended with +46.5 pips profit.



21st February- NO TRADE 21st February- SHORT
Entry: 1.6237
SL: 1.6237
P/L: 0 real pips
kicked out at BE, then it went our way
22nd February- SHORT
Entry: 1.6164
SL: 1.6164
P/L: 0 pips
22nd February- SHORT
Entry: 1.6166
SL: 1.6166
P/L: 0 real pips
23rd February- LONG
Entry: 1.6187
PT: 1.6223
P/L: + 36 pips
23rd February- LONG
Entry: 1.6186
PT #1 (50%): 1.6221 : 35 pips / 2
PT #2 (50%): 1.6202 : 16 pips / 2
P/L: + 51 pips / 2 = 25.5 real pips
24th February- SHORT
Entry: 1.6209
PT: 1.6174
P/L: + 35 pips
24th February- SHORT
Entry: 1.6207
PT #1 (50%): 1.6172 : 35 pips / 2
PT #2 (50%): 1.6176 : 31 pips / 2
P/L: + 66 pips / 2 = 33 real pips
25th February- NO TRADE 25th February- NO TRADE

Weekly summary
2 profits, 0 losses, 1 BE
the week ended with +71 pips profit.




Weekly summary
2 profits, 0 losses
the week ended with +58.5 pips profit.



28th February- LONG
Entry: 1.6109
PT: 1.6145
P/L: + 36 pips
28th February- LONG
Entry: 1.6108
PT #1 (50%): 1.6145 : 37 pips / 2
PT #2 (50%): 1.6128 : 20 pips / 2
P/L: + 57 pips / 2 = 28.5 real pips


Whole February summary
10 profits, 3 losses, the month ended with + 265 pips profit.


Whole February summary
11 profits, 0 losses, the month ended with + 281 pips profit.


Comment on February results
February was a great month, the best since I started offering the system to the others, and one of the best during its whole trading history. We made 265 pips, which represents more than 13% increase of the account (by risking 2% per trade).

I’m happy with the results, but I also want to say let’s not get too greedy and stay on the ground. We have to realize that not every month will be like this, so we should still use the conservative risk strategy of maximum 2-4% of the account size per one trade.

As announced in my newsletter, from next month I’m starting to trade Turbo strategy on a real live account (not on Demo), so we’ll be able to really compare both strategies.