My first live experience - Personal reflections and journey

Well actually the thread title is actually deceiving, I started about a week and a half ago. Forex market is brutal but I'm sure you all know that by now.
Still learning to discipline myself and take profits when I have to and have set stop losses in trades, don't trade on news reports times, don't be greedy, try and have no emotion in trades.
So starting fresh I've reloaded my account. Trying to have set strategies I follow, but still a bit muddy.
I've read up many strategies in the strategies forum. The few I'm going to try out is 5/13/62 EMAs, and the basic trendlines and fibonacci numbers.
I want to try and use the adaptation of the Sidus strat with the vegas indicators but I still dont quite understand the system, hopefully I'll get the idea sometime soon so I can apply it to my trading.

Wish me luck.

P.S If you follow these trades follow them at your own risk. (Mostly likely you wont because me=newbie)

The trades I have currently:
AUD/USD - short
EUR/USD - short
USD/CHF - long
NZ/JPY - short
EUR/CHF - short

One thing that keeps you in this market is you have to love this s---! Find two or three pairings and follow them for a while. Develop a good chart set up and learn how to read it. Dont just try a method once and move on. Ask yourself "why it didnt work?" and see if you can make it work. Dont bet the farm and ALWAYS USE STOPS!
Find out what type of trader you are and how much time you want to devote to this. Welcome to the madness!

Thanks for the tips rwj, well I'm off on holidays from uni for the next 3.5 months, pretty much full time trading and work in between. 5/13/62 works fine but it has gone against me before.

yea, and it always will from time to time. no method will ever give you signals that are right 100% of the time. all the 'methods' and 'systems' we learn are just tools to provide high probability signals so as to give us the most advantage possible. this is where good money management comes in. if you have a good money management plan, a good set of trading rules, and are disciplined enough to stick to it, you'll be on your way to being a profitable trader! hell, im not there either. takes time

Glimpsing back and forth at the market and my portfolio, it did take a bit of a punch earlier but stood with my trades, it didn't get past my stop loss which was pretty good. phew!

eur/usd looks like a great short..... 5/13 about to cross the 62 on both the 4h and 30m charts also we have macd divergence.

all euro pair look pretty good for shorting