Trading Journal


March 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.

There are few changes this month:
- I’ll start writing pips in 5 decimal places (so far I was rounding them to 4)
- I’m trading Turbo Morning Trade EA on a LIVE, not demo account


Forex Morning Trade

Live account (PFG Best)
Turbo Morning Trade EA

Live account (Alpari UK)
1st March – LONG
Entry: 1.62708
PT: 1.63050
P/L: + 34.2 pips
1st March – LONG
Entry: 1.62711
PT #1 (50%): 1.63071 : 36 pips / 2
PT #2 (50%): 1.62978 : 26.7 pips / 2
P/L: + 62.7 pips / 2 = 31.35 real pips
2nd March – SHORT
Entry: 1.62302
SL: 1.62734
P/L: - 43.2 pips
2nd March – SHORT
Entry: 1.62309
SL: 1.62709
P/L: - 40 real pips
3rd March – SHORT
Entry: 1.63203
PT: 1.62825
P/L: + 37.8 pips
3rd March – SHORT
Entry: 1.63211
PT #1 (50%): 1.62884 : 32.7 pips / 2
PT #2 (50%): 1.62840 : 37.1 pips / 2
P/L: + 69.8 pips / 2 = 34.9 real pips
4th March – NO TRADE 4th March – NO TRADE

Weekly summary
(including 1 day from February)
3 profits, 1 loss
the week ended with +64.8 pips profit.




Weekly summary
(including 1 day from February)
3 profits, 1 loss
the week ended with +54.75 pips profit.



7th March – SHORT
Entry: 1.62546
SL: 1.62944
P/L: -39.8 pips
7th March – SHORT
Entry: 1.62538
SL: 1.62938
P/L: - 40 real pips
8th March – NO TRADE 8th March – NO TRADE
9th March – SHORT
Entry: 1.61513
SL: 1.61903
P/L: - 39 pips
9th March – SHORT
Entry: 1.61521
SL: 1.61921
P/L: - 40 real pips
10th March – SHORT
Entry: 1.61630
PT: 1.61279
P/L: + 35.1 pips
10th March – SHORT
Entry: 1.61634
PT #1 (50%): 1.61284 : 35 pips / 2
PT #2 (50%): 1.61482 : 15.2 pips / 2
P/L: + 50.2 pips / 2 = 25.1 real pips
11th March – SHORT
Entry: 1.60479
SL: 1.60482
P/L: - 0.3 pips
11th March – SHORT
Entry: 1.60505
SL: 1.60505 : 0 pips
P/L: 0 real pips

Weekly summary
1 profit, 2 losses, 1 BE
the week ended with -44 pips loss.




Weekly summary
1 profit, 2 losses, 1 BE
the week ended with -54.9 pips loss.



14th March – LONG
Entry: 1.60746
SL: 1.60345
P/L: - 40.1 pips
14th March – LONG
Entry: 1.60772
SL: 1.60372
P/L: -40 real pips
15th March – SHORT
Entry: 1.61166
PT: 1.60818
P/L: + 34.8 pips
15th March – SHORT
Entry: 1.61170
PT #1 (50%): 1.60817 : 35.3 pips / 2
PT #2 (50%): 1.60785 : 38.5 pips / 2
P/L: + 73.8 pips / 2 = 36.9 real pips
16th March – NO TRADE 16th March – NO TRADE
17th March – LONG
Entry: 1.60434
PT: 1.60790
P/L: + 35.6 pips
17th March – SHORT
Entry: 1.60419
PT #1 (50%): 1.60781 : 36.2 pips / 2
PT #2 (50%): 1.60547 : 12.8 pips / 2
P/L: + 49 pips / 2 = 24.5 real pips
18th March – LONG
Entry: 1.61501
PT: 1.61847
P/L: + 34.6 pips
18th March – NO TRADE
skipped because of ADR filter

Weekly summary
3 profits, 1 loss
the week ended with +64.9 pips profit.




Weekly summary
2 profits, 1 loss
the week ended with + 21.4 pips profit.



21st March – NO TRADE
I had no signal on PFG
21st March – LONG
Entry: 1.62167
PT #1 (50%): 1.62522 : 35.5 pips / 2
PT #2 (50%): 1.62520 : 35.3 pips / 2
P/L: + 70.8 pips / 2 = 35.4 real pips
22nd March – LONG
Entry: 1.63120
PT: 1.63495
P/L: + 37.5 pips
22nd March – LONG
Entry: 1.63114
PT #1 (50%): 1.63464 : 35 pips / 2
PT #2 (50%): 1.63752 : 63.8 pips / 2
P/L: + 98.8 pips / 2 = 49.4 real pips
23rd March – SHORT
Entry: 1.63619
SL: 1.63619
P/L: 0 pips
exit at BE
23rd March – SHORT
Entry: 1.63636
SL: 1.63636 : 0 pips
P/L: 0 real pips
24th March – SHORT
Entry: 1.62314
SL: 1.62314
P/L: 0 pips
again kicked out at BE, and again the trade went our way.
Just a bad luck these last two days.
24th March – SHORT
Entry: 1.62324
SL: 1.62324 : 0 pips
P/L: 0 real pips
25th March – SHORT
Entry: 1.61083
PT: 1.60731
P/L: + 35.2 pips
25th March – SHORT
Entry: 1.61084
PT #1 (50%): 1.60732 : 35.2 pips / 2
PT #2 (50%): 1.60853 : 23.1 pips / 2
P/L: + 58.3 pips / 2 = 29.15 real pips

Weekly summary
2 profits, 2 times BE, no loss
the week ended with +72.7 pips profit.




Weekly summary
3 profits, 2 times BE, no loss
the week ended with + 113.95 pips profit.



28th March – SHORT
Entry: 1.60069
PT: 1.59698
P/L: + 37.1 pips
28th March – SHORT
Entry: 1.60088
PT #1 (50%): 1.59738 : 35 pips / 2
PT #2 (50%): 1.59947 : 14.1 pips / 2
P/L: + 49.1 pips / 2 = 24.55 real pips
29th March – LONG
Entry: 1.60221
SL: 1.59816
P/L: - 40.5 pips
29th March – LONG
Entry: 1.60214
SL: 1.60214
P/L: 0 real pips
with little bit of luck the trade hit BE on Alpari
30th March – LONG
Entry: 1.60034
PT: 1.60397
P/L: + 36.3 pips
30th March – LONG
Entry: 1.60020
PT #1 (50%): 1.60374 : 35.4 pips / 2
PT #2 (50%): 1.60539 : 51.9 pips / 2
P/L: + 87.3 pips / 2 = 43.65 real pips
31st March – LONG
Entry: 1.61117
PT: 1.61467
P/L: + 35 pips
31st March – LONG
Entry: 1.61097
PT #1 (50%): 1.61429 : 33.2 pips / 2
PT #2 (50%): 1.61240 : 14.3 pips / 2
P/L: + 47.5 pips / 2 = 23.75 real pips


Whole March summary
11 profits, 5 losses, the month ended with + 190.3 pips profit.


Whole March summary
11 profits, 4 losses, the month ended with + 198.65 pips profit.


Comment on March results
Another very good month with very nice profit. 190 pips represents almost 10% increase of the account (by risking 2% per trade).

Now we are able to compare Turbo and FMT on live accounts, so far Turbo didn’t perform better. It requires longer trends to show its strengths.
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.