yet another week of learning — Week 8* Net % P/L: -5.73% Net % P/L to-date: -4.97% Average P/L per week: -0.62% Winning weeks: 4 Average % gained: +3.87 Losing weeks: 4 Average % lost: -5.12% *performance tracking start date is September 1, ...

Week 7* Net % P/L: -6.37% Net % P/L to-date: +0.76% Average P/L per week: +0.11% Winning weeks: 4 Average % gained: +3.87 Losing weeks: 3 Average % lost: -4.91% *performance tracking start date is September 1, 2009.

Week 6* Net % P/L: -7.72% Net % P/L to-date: +12.88% Average P/L per week: +1.19% Winning weeks: 4; Average % gained: +3.87 Losing weeks: 2; Average % lost: -4.18% no excuses. i found myself fighting a cable whipsaw at one time during the week. ...

+0.80% — total of four trades today: gbp/usd and eur/aud - two shorts, both stopped out, and two long positions, took profits on time stop.

CONGRATULATIONS!

+4.95% — 4 trades: two were stopped out, the other two closed on target.

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I am using your pivot point indicator on my charts, and love it! Thanks for sharing!

week 5 — Week 5 Net % P/L: +5.38% Net % P/L to-date: +14.94% Average P/L to-date: +2.98% per week winning weeks: 4; average % gained: +3.87 losing weeks: 1; average % lost: -0.64%

correction with the last trade posted. The gain for that was 13.19%, NOT 14.05%

+14.05% — got it all back--tuition paid, lesson learned. that's enough trading for the week.

setback — had to take a 57-pip loss on cable. I must have left a limit sell yesterday, totally forgot about it -13.85%. lesson learned and i am back to square one.

+0.68% — two trades so far--one short was stopped out (-2.16%) and a long position closed going into previous day's high (+2.79%).

+0.45% — i was about to take my break when a signal came up on m30. soon as candle shadow formed, i took profits. Now i take my break.

+3.86% — opened long off the daily pivot. Took profits when the bulls seemed to lose steam above 1.5900. +3.86% for about 21pips.

+1.05% — opened long position when cable bounced off s2. target at s1 hit.

week 4 — Week 4 net % Profit/Loss: -0.64% Net % P/L to-date: +9.56% Average weekly % P/L: +2.39%

I typically wait for price to form a swing hi/low around these levels. To go long, i wait for price to breach the swing hi; for shorts, price has to break the swing low. For stops, if the opposite swing isn't too pip-heavy, i hide it there, ...

it depends. sometimes my stops are as low as 5-pips away and at times as far as 30-pips away. It depends on how volatile the market is. My stops are always dependent on the 2% risk, not looking at number of pips--sometimes. For me it's not the ...

update — from a high of $131.01 a few days back, the account is down 4.64%. i paid tuition and learned a lot yesterday--hopefully this will help me be a better trader from here on.