The Trader Behind the Trade™

NocturnalFX is no longer offering commercial services. It is now simply a medium to share my trading experiences and trading performance.

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If I wasn't trading, I probably would've gotten into the Ebay business. I remember back in college I started selling textbooks. Then after graduation, I started selling video games (I'm a gaming fan). I would buy games in bundles from the wholesale websites and sell each one at high premium; charging $3-5 just on shipping. That's how I made my profit.

Made a few buck on the video games sales. But wasn't enough to make a side income on.

Forex is a lot like Ebay. You want to buy/sell at wholesale and sell/buy at retail.

Maserati Gran turismo
It's the luxury for the common man

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If you want to lose weight, do what I did. I was 198 lbs 3 months ago and now I am 180 lbs

1. Eat breakfast very early in the morning (5-6am)
2. Fast for at least 10hrs
3. Eat nothing during the day-if possible, do not drink. Drinking water; although do not contribute to calories, will make your body anticipate food and makes this diet difficult to follow
4. 20 minutes before you eat again - Exercise. Perform moderate weight lifting exercise. Best if you do split workouts focusing on different muscle groups over several days.
5. Break your fast with fast acting carbs (white bread, juice, dates) with protein shake
6. Then eat 2-3 medium sized meals at night composed of carbs, healthy fats, and protein

Your body will burn through the fat while you exercise on empty stomach. But the meals you take afterwards are designed to build and maintain the muscles.

This is a variation of the Art of Manliness Intermittent Fast Training.

Very nice. I'm hoping to have one of those within the next 5 years and hoping to have my Bentley GT within the next 10 years.

Nice.

If you think about how much one of these cost "used"- it is around $70-80k. Very affordable if you have that disposable income. I plan to get it in 2013 or 2014.

I'm hoping you can get it by no later than 2014. For me, I have a long way to go. Hoping that I can get my trading on the right road and keep it there so I can spoil myself sooner than 5 years from now.

Keep up the great work. Your trading is very impressive. I wish I could trade like that.

Sent you a PM.

Gonna be mine one day...

Oanda began the dynamic spread on EURUSD. The spread seem to fluctuate from 0.6-1.2.

See video I made (approx 1 minute)

How long will this eur climb? Seems like when you think it can't go any higher, it just did.

But is following the trend really an edge? I don't know. You pretty much calling what is readily available to every trader an "edge". An edge should be something unique, something that most people overlook, something beyond the scope of typical retail trader's mindset.

Just my 2c.

I fear not the man who has practice 10,000 kicks once, but i fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.
Bruce Lee

Trading one pair makes a lot of sense to me; especially the EURUSD. It is the most liquid market in the world. It trends enough that if you know what you're doing, you can count on making a living off this pair alone.

Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing.
Warren Buffet

i love this thread

Oanda has an opening for a trader. Any takers?

Are these traders allowed to use our funds?
These traders trade against the clients?

To me seems like a conflict of interest.

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thanks for stopping by. I hope to share my experience and make this about the trader

This time around you will succeed

this time around you will profit

this time around...

Went sprinting today. I do 20 minutes of sprinting once a week. I do 50m sprints 10x (500m total) with 50m walk in between. When I started 3 weeks ago, i couldn't do more than three 50m sprints without completely stopping for air.

Today I did ten 50m sprints back to back without stationary rest. It's amazing how the body adapts.

I'm trying to lose that little bit of lower ab fat. I'm guessing I'm around 9-10% body fat. I would like to be in the range of 7-8%.

After about 50 trades, my actual results still within +1/-1 sigma of my backtested results.

Hyptothetical results will be converted to actual results in 100 trades.

Then will continue monitoring live performance based on +1/-1 sigma of last 100 actual trades results.

A little about myself:

I daytrade the EURUSD in the European session (2am cst). I also have a full time job as a Quality Engineer at a healthcare manufacturing company.

I never forget May of 2011; that is when my trading income exceeds my regular job income after 5 years of trading. I remember my first few purchases with profit I took from that month; 44" flat screen tv, sofa set, and gaming PC.

I also will never forget November of 2011. Lost $30k in the span of 3 days. Just couldn't let go of the fact that EURUSD was tanking. Just kept buying and buying. I finally decided to stop just short of blowing my whole account. I had little over $10k left. After that experience, you learn what it means to let go of your ego.

Since then I've built my account up and have broken the previous equity high before the infamous Nov 2011. I trade on average 2 hours a day. I don't know if I ever quit my dayjob since I actually enjoy my work. I actually used a lot of the statistical skills from my dayjob to analyze my trading performance.

I don't share my trading method because it is a product of years of hardwork. Maybe I'm a bit superstitious because I feel that sharing your edge will ruin it. Suffice to say that I subscribe to the Auction Market Theory and Order Flow trading. I use EURUSD futures market profile data, news feeds, COT charts, and basic technical analysis.

Outside of forex, I enjoy fitness and staying in shape. I also enjoy computer gaming (really LOVE fifa game).

For now, my ultimate plans are to save up to buy a house for my family and pay it off so we can be debt free. My dream is to be able to be in a state where money is not an issue and be free to pursue other ventures without worrying about securing the monthly paycheck.

As long as I maintain roughly equal distribution of longs/shorts- then I know that least my method is not strictly tied to the trend of the instrument