Weekly Trading Update - 20-24 September 2010

It's been quite a mixed trading week for me this week. My 4 hour trading system (see right for details) generated two winning trades out of two, but the day trading system that I've recently started trading live only managed to break-even with two 40 point winners, two 40 point losers, and one day where no trading signal occurred.

On a personal note, I actually finished the week 40 points down trading this system because of a stupid mistake on my part. As I mentioned in yesterday's blog post, I looked at the 5 minute chart instead of the 15 minute chart and missed out on what would have been a 40 point winning trade.

However the fact that the Forex Morning Trade system finished the week at break-even is another positive in my opinion because the GBP/USD has been very tough to trade this week on an intraday basis. Taking a long-term view, my view hasn't changed. I still think this is a great system.

Anyway back to my 4 hour trading system and as I've already mentioned, I've had two winning trades this week. The first of these was on the GBP/USD pair in the early hours of Tuesday morning. The Supertrend indicator was still red on the daily chart so I was looking to go short as soon as the EMAs crossed downwards on the 4 hour chart.

They did so a few hours before but I was waiting for a slight pullback to get a good entry point, and managed to do so at 1.5566. I then went to bed, set my stop loss 40 points away and my target price at 50 points. Neither price was hit overnight and I subsequently closed half the position for 50 points the following morning and let the other half run, moving my stop loss to break-even. I was really expecting a decent fall in the price but unfortunately it never happened and I was stopped out at break-even with the second half of my position.

The second trade occurred later on that day and it was the USD/JPY pair this time. The Supertrend indicator was actually green on this pair, so I should really have been looking to go long, but I just felt that after last week's spike upwards on the Yen news, the price was drifting sideways and rapidly running out of momentum. So I decided to go short when the EMAs crossed downwards on the 4 hour chart and entered a position at 85.40.

Thankfully the price continued falling and I managed to close half the position for 40 points before taking another 40 points after the price hit 84.60. I closed a little early in hindsight but I was happy enough with the overall profit.

So all in all it was a profitable enough week, although I'm still kicking myself for losing 40 points on the day trading system when I should have broken even, like everyone else who used the system.

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