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- CrabmanDan replied May 8, 2011
Hi staffpro, I do just about everything "wrong". I hold on to positions forever (since I'm carry trading), and I do average down if it goes against me and simply wait until the total position is positive to cash out for a larger profit than I would ...
- CrabmanDan replied Apr 19, 2011
Let me start be saying, this is not advice on how you should trade. This is the approach I'm experimenting with. I have a pretty simple approach that seems to be working well for me, and has survived some very wild swings in the market (like the ...
- CrabmanDan replied Apr 19, 2011
Thanks, that's a really nice thing to say. It's funny though, I can't say that I know what the market is going to do any more than the day I started. Still sitting on some profitable trades, waiting for them to inch a bit higher. Current Balance: ...
- CrabmanDan replied Apr 18, 2011
Sitting on some profitable trades right now. Also watched ZAR/JPY and TRY/JPY fall quite far in the past few days. Thinking about picking some up. Current Balance: $4116.25
- CrabmanDan replied Apr 13, 2011
Thanks! I cashed in a couple profitable trades yesterday, and had a couple more triggered overnight. Current Balance: $4099.24
- CrabmanDan replied Apr 12, 2011
It's been an interesting few months, I've been recovering from shoulder surgery, and I'm in the middle of packing and moving across the continent. I also completely forgot about this journal again On a trading note, when I got to $900, I ...
- CrabmanDan replied Nov 14, 2010
Thanks for the vote of confidence.... I actually forgot about posting completely. Since my last update, I've only traded at the daily timeframe or even higher. I find that it only takes me a few minutes every day to check my trades, put in new ones, ...
- CrabmanDan replied Aug 17, 2010
I've closed most of my carry-trade positions, they were in the green quite a bit and I figured I could make some money selling them off. I'm waiting to get back into them at a better price now. I've also been trying out trading at much higher ...
- CrabmanDan replied Jul 7, 2010
Haven't updated in a while, but there hasn't been much to say. Slowly gathering interest from my positions. I do occasional short term trades, but mostly I leave everything alone. Current balance: $556.66
- CrabmanDan replied Apr 29, 2010
Not much activity lately, other than collecting interest. I picked up a little USD/HUF, that's about it. Current balance: 472.17
- CrabmanDan replied Apr 12, 2010
Thanks for the warning, I'll keep an eye out. I don't really plan on actively trading my positions, I want to just leave them to sit and earn money to be honest. I've gotten over excited a few times and sold a few positions for short term gain, but ...
- CrabmanDan replied Apr 6, 2010
Haven't done much lately other than inch forward, bit by bit. The nice thing about this method is that I spend maybe 10-15 minutes/week looking at my trades. Current balance: $463.17
- CrabmanDan replied Apr 1, 2010
I haven't updated in a while, largely just due to much lower activity since I'm trying the carry trade out. Since my last updated, I had a milestone of $150 which I reached in my last post. I topped up the account with an additional $200 and ...
- CrabmanDan replied Feb 1, 2010
Still building up more positions in AUD/JPY. Also took a small position in USD/TRY and USD/ZAR. Currently earning $0.17/day off interest. Owned a bit of NZD/JPY but decided to sell it off for a nice profit. Current balance: $151.47
- CrabmanDan replied Jan 25, 2010
The idea of a carry trade really interests me, largely because of the passive income component. Trading, although offering so much more freedom than a conventional job, still requires you to monitor your trades and watch the charts day after day. ...
- CrabmanDan replied Jan 17, 2010
No real strategy yet. I scalp mostly, during volatile times. I've played with adding indicators, but I find I don't really use or trust them much for anything. I keep a few moving averages around to get a sense of the trend, that's about it. Lately, ...
- CrabmanDan replied Jan 16, 2010
Just playing with MQL4 at the moment, no good results so far. All of my EA's have either broken even over long periods, or failed spectacularly. Even my implementation of First Strike Plus seems to do pretty poorly across most currencies and years. ...
- CrabmanDan replied Jan 12, 2010
Current balance: $136.89
- CrabmanDan replied Jan 10, 2010
Not much to report, having fun writing some EA's using MQL4. The language was easy enough to pick up due to it's similarity to C/C++. So far I've implemented Joel Rensink's First Strike Plus, and the results were very encouraging. I'm following the ...
- CrabmanDan replied Jan 10, 2010
Hi Xaron, I've followed your previous journal with great interest. I'm curious to see how this turns out, as I'm learning about the carry trade myself.