Trading Journal


January 2011

I continue trading Forex Morning Trade with standard settings, I just added long candle filter: 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.

It would be also interesting to see differences in entries and exits between live and demo account.


Forex Morning Trade

Live account (PFG Best)
Turbo Morning Trade EA

Demo account (Alpari UK)
3rd January- SHORT
Entry: 1.5546
PT: 1.5509
P/L: + 37 pips
first profit in the new year
3rd January- NO TRADE
I had no signal on Alpari
4th January- SHORT
Entry: 1.5459
SL: 1.5499
P/L: - 40 pips
and a first loss in the new year
4th January- SHORT
Entry: 1.5460
SL: 1.5500
P/L: - 40 pips
5th January- SHORT
Entry: 1.5546
SL: 1.5587
P/L: - 41 pips
5th January- SHORT
Entry: 1.5545
SL: 1.5585
P/L: - 40 pips
6th January- LONG
Entry: 1.5509
SL: 1.5506
P/L: - 3 pips
kicked out at BE, then it went our way
6th January- LONG
Entry: 1.5507
SL: 1.5507
P/L: 0 pips
7th January- SHORT
Entry: 1.5437
SL: 1.5437
P/L: 0 pips
kicked out at BE, protected us from the loss
7th January- SHORT
Entry: 1.5437
SL: 1.5437
P/L: 0 pips

Weekly summary
1 profit, 2 losses, 2 times BE,
the week ended with -47 pips loss.




Weekly summary
0 profits, 2 losses, 2 times BE,
the week ended with -80 pips loss.



10th January- SHORT
Entry: 1.5537
PT: 1.5501
P/L: + 36 pips
10th January- NO TRADE
I had no signal on Alpari
11th January- NO TRADE 11th January- NO TRADE
12th January- LONG
Entry: 1.5643
SL: 1.5643
P/L: 0 pips
bad luck today, just 1-2 pips more were needed
to reach the profit. I got out at BE.
12th January- LONG
Entry: 1.5644
PT #1 (50%): 1.5681 : 37 pips / 2
PT #2 (50%): 1.5653 : 9 pips / 2
P/L: + 46 pips / 2 = 23 real pips
13th January- NO TRADE 13th January- NO TRADE
14th January- SHORT
Entry: 1.5834
SL: 1.5834
P/L: 0 pips
stopped out at BE
14th January- SHORT
Entry: 1.5834
SL: 1.5834
P/L: 0 real pips

Weekly summary
1 profit, 0 losses, 2 times BE,
the week ended with +36 pips profit.




Weekly summary
1 profits, 0 losses, 2 times BE,
the week ended with +23 pips profit.



17th January- SHORT
Entry: 1.5862
SL: 1.5862
P/L: 0 pips
17th January- SHORT
Entry: 1.5863
SL: 1.5862
P/L: 0 real pips
18th January- LONG
Entry: 1.5937
PT: 1.5973
P/L: + 36 pips
18th January- LONG
Entry: 1.5937
PT #1 (50%): 1.5972 : 35 pips / 2
PT #2 (50%): 1.6013 : 76 pips / 2
P/L: + 111 pips / 2 = 55.5 real pips
19th January- LONG
Entry: 1.6023
SL: 1.5983
P/L: - 40 pips
19th January- NO TRADE
20th January- SHORT
Entry: 1.5955
PT: 1.5919
P/L: + 36 pips
20th January- SHORT
Entry: 1.5956
PT #1 (50%): 1.5921 : 35 pips / 2
PT #2 (50%): 1.5936 : 20 pips / 2
P/L: + 55 pips / 2 = 27.5 real pips
21st January- LONG
Entry: 1.5924
SL: 1.5881
P/L: - 43 pips
21st January- LONG
Entry: 1.5926
SL: 1.5886
P/L: - 40 real pips

Weekly summary
2 profits, 2 losses, 1 time BE,
the week ended with -11 pips loss.




Weekly summary
2 profits, 1 loss, 1 time BE,
the week ended with +43 pips profit.



24th January- NO TRADE 24th January- SHORT
Entry: 1.5971
SL: 1.5971
P/L: 0 real pips
25th January- NO TRADE 25th January- NO TRADE
26th January- LONG
Entry: 1.5825
SL: 1.5784
P/L: - 41 pips
26th January- LONG
Entry: 1.5824
SL: 1.5824
P/L: - 40 real pips
27th January- LONG
Entry: 1.5909
SL: 1.5907
P/L: - 2 pips
27th January- LONG
Entry: 1.5913
SL: 1.5913
P/L: 0 real pips
28th January- SHORT
Entry: 1.5901
PT: 1.5866
P/L: + 35 pips
28th January- SHORT
Entry: 1.5901
PT #1 (50%): 1.5866 : 35 pips / 2
PT #2 (50%): 1.5875 : 26 pips / 2
P/L: + 61 pips / 2 = 30.5 real pips

Weekly summary
1 profit, 1 loss, 1 time BE,
the week ended with -8 pips loss.




Weekly summary
1 profit, 1 loss, 1 time BE,
the week ended with -9.5 pips loss.



31st January- LONG
Entry: 1.5878
SL: 1.5846
P/L: - 32 pips
I moved SL under the swing after I saw
it could go to stop
31st January- NO TRADE


Whole January summary
5 profits, 6 losses, the month ended with -62 pips loss.


Whole January summary
4 profits, 4 losses, the month ended with -23.5 pips loss.


Comment on January results
January was a slightly losing month, we lost 62 pips, which represents around 3% loss of the account (by risking 2% per trade).

Looking back it continued to be unpredictable, very similar to December. It was never sure which way the market will go after the London open. Hopefully the markets will come to a more “normal” state now, I’m looking forward to February results.

It is also a second month when our Turbo strategy (on a demo account) made smaller loss than original strategy. I’ll continue trading the Turbo on a forward test, I’m interested in results in profitable month – if Turbo results will be better/worse than original strategy.