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Vae Victus - Woe to the Vanquished

Hi everybody,

Purpose of this journal is simple, lately I have had some new ideas for some pretty aggressive trading systems, I have backtested them visually they appear to be ok, however forward testing is a different matter, and live trading a different matter completely.

I have been noticing things over and over again, however I have been preoccupied with my Live trading to give this stuff the forward test it deserves, hopefully posting in this thread can give me the motivation and discipline to keep plugging away at some of these ideas.

First trading day is tomorrow.

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Day One

Alright so I was up this morning at around 5:50, ten minutes to six. Get my monitors turned on, get my Caffeine into me. etc etc. When I tried to log into my spang new demo account over at Oanda.

I was greeted with the "Unable to connect to server" . . .

Hmmm, very bad times. After a half an hour of plugging in and out my router my internet came back on (Horay!)

In that half an hour a missed an entry which would have been a winner on the EU, I then took an early loss on the EURUSD, I was long on EJ, UJ and GU. It was looking to be a good day for this strategy, unlike say . . . Tuesday this week which was a complete and utter day of destruction for this method.



So I was eyeballing the news coming up and I was in a very good way, at one point I remember being up around 9% floating with TP's just a few pips away from being hit on UJ and EJ.


But Then -




FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU !



That was it, and it simply would not come back. I actually went back to bed to sleep because I was tired and so annoyed, after angrily berating my ISP provider over the phone they have a guy coming out tomorrow.

The news had hit and had sank my longs, stopping me out from all of them. It's not like I could have done anything different as there was no management to be carried out on the trades, the only thing was that having no connection stopped me from trading in the opposite direction when they were stopped.

End of Day results (About four hours trading today) :



+1.2% for the day, one win and three losses. If I had not had internet dicciculties over the course of the day I would have been staring at the much nicer figure of 4.2% instead. I feel cheated after today, my ISP usually is always pretty relieable and thats honestly the first time that happened. *sigh*.

The battle starts anew tomorrow.

Jig

that has happened to me on live account..its amazing the times when interenet can suddenly go down...

how are u buddy..hows the live trading going, u trading profitably? im gonna start in 2 weeks time live account..

JigSaw,

Do you think you can reactivate your journal and begin new postings? You got off to a very interesting start and your journal looked very exciting and then not so much as a peep in over a week...

Hope everything is well,

Jeremy

Agree... moar!!!

Happened to me live as well,

Yeah my live trading is going well but I mean not spectacular returns, I think at the back of it I think everyone thinks there is not so much a holy grail but a trading Nirvana, the problem with this is that it is way harder psychologically and harder in terms of drawdown

I had two towers operating with 4screens, One PC got a virus and then I turned on the other tower to go put a SL on my trade, when I turned on the other tower the power supply blew up on me. . .

It was a -4% mistake .

I have a backup internet connection now though

Hey there, thanks for the interest.

I will indeed,

I had internet troubles for about three days, then I had to go searching for a new place to stay last week.

I am back at my proper trading station tomorrow, last week I was just trading from a webbook + mobile broadband so I am trading on buses, trading on the train, trading at restaurants lol.

So theres no way I can run my two live accounts and a demo account at the one time, it's much easier when I am at home and I have a screen setup for every system.

Update tomorrow !