MY Journal-phil13

OK, this is going to be my journal, to be honest I do not feel I need to keep a public journal of some of my trades but the thread I have learnt so much from on here has inspired me to do this.


First off I wish to thank a member on here called FTI for his very generous time, patience and thread Technical Analysis Fallacy which is the thread I have learnt so much from, I am in no way connected/exchange pms or have any special connections with FTI, I am just friends with him here on FF, so let us all be clear that I have no specific training from him other than what is in his thread, I know FTI likes this to be clear about these things so out of the great respect I have for him I am clearly stating I trade from what I believe I have learnt from his thread only.


First I should explain how I trade, I do not trade or look at the charts the way the mainstream teaches so do not expect predictions or crystal ball type analyses from this thread, I try to use mainly the most recent price movements in an effort to help me find opportunities to FOLLOW/FLOW with the market direction, from my many hours watching and practising (in M5 time frames mainly), I have observed that the market moves in price ranges these come in many shapes and forms, but it is basically a pump then a rest type of set up that happens, I am sorry that I cannot explain it any better than that, but if you look at my charts that I will be posting you may see it as I attempt to explain why I have chosen to take each trade I post.

So now for my rules.

1. protect my book.
2. protect my book.
3. do not forget rules 1 and 2.

Now my trading plan.

1. buy if the market is going up and there are signs of buyers.
2. sell if the market is going down and there are signs of seller.
3. do not trade if there are no obvious buyers or sellers to follow.
4. do not trade if my mindset gets disturb.
5.adapt, adjust, overcome and do not gamble.

Trading times.

I trade from about an hour and half before London to about dinner time New York this is my ideal daylight trading time, I often carry some trades through my night time, my trades can last from minutes to hours to days depends on the situation presented to me at any given time.

Money Management and Modus Operandi.

I use what I learnt from FTIs thread, if interested most of it is within the first 200 pages, here is the link. http://www.forexfactory.com/showthread.php?t=57639 it is all there so I do not feel there is a need for me to explain this part in detail.


Anyone and everyone is welcome to post here, all I ask is please do not be rude, abusive or insulting to others, we are all at different points in our learning curve and each understand and see things differently so please be helpful not obstructive to others we share this planet with.


Some trades will be live, some will be posted during or after, I do not intend this to be signal service for others to copy trades, if you do copy any trades shown here you do so at your own risk, I have nothing to prove to anyone and I do not want to hear moaning about trades that have not gone well for anyone because they copied a live trade posted here, so be aware that it is you who are responsible for your own destiny, sometimes I take trades that go against me, it happens it is called trading.



Right, lets get straight in at the deep end, looking at the daily charts there are quite a few possible opportunities out there today, I have scouts in a few of them, but I have chosen this one to show you to kick things off, lets see where this takes me????


This gbp/cad chart looks to have good strong direction and I believe I see buyers! Question is will they continue to push it higher??? Time will tell, I have entered my scout to test and keep me alert to developments, now patience is a must while I await to see the if the buyers return. Remember I follow I do (try) not to predict.



I start every day by looking for opportunities in the daily charts, then I slip down to the hourly charts to look for entries for my skews, I used to trade much lower time frames but things have changed in the market and with myself, so now I use mainly these time frames though I will sometimes look at the M15 and W1 charts.







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I wish you well

@MaxDoom, thank you.




Adjustment to trade.


I have reduced my lot size, reason, we are nearly through London morning session and there has been little price change, also there is two more pieces of news due out, if it falls it just give me more room to adjust my skews and get a better price.

As I said I may get a better price...... retrace is normal so not concerned about this, in fact my strategy allows for this to retrace a lot further if necessary.

this one is ringing alarm bells to me now so i am calling it a day and closing this out with a small loss now. i hope others had a better day than i did on this one.

hi phil, i see this journal. so maybe i will often coming to this journal..

hoping you're well

Regards

Wish you well my friend.

Regards,
Chao

@frz and keroroOoOo thank you.


I cannot find anything in the pairs that grabs my attention today and it is NFP tomorrow so I will forget trading until next week, while scanning through the pairs I notice quite a few of them have already moved near to their daily average already (now just befor London open), this is another reason I am not going to trade today, it would seem that the Asian session eat all the pies, have a good weekend all, mine starts here.

I noticed you trade crosses, unlike what FTI suggested, which was to trade the "3 kingdoms". Anyway, plenty of ways to skin a cat as they say.

Heads up, USDJPY is in an interesting spot. A "make or break" spot. Perhaps market is just coiling before the NFP.


Good luck.

Hi keroroOoOo


I now believe that what our friend FTI has presented in his thread is a training manual, I found this allowed me to see things I never noticed before, while learning through his thread we progress down our own curve and slowly I have introduced more and more pairs in my trading, I believe FTI does trade the crosses, much has been written about it later on in the thread, the more options you can recognise/give yourself the more opportunities will present themselves.

Here is a link to a post on what we should watch as our experience grows.
http://www.forexfactory.com/showthre...25#post6419025


thanks for the ‘heads up’, I really do not like trading into NFP, it makes me uncomfortable so I generally avoid it, there will be more opportunities next week and I will not have to think about getting trapped in a possible battle if NFP moves the market against my trades.


BTW, what I am showing here is the longer term stuff I do now, I found M5 great to learn in but have realized I personally find it to difficult to keep track of constantly, hence my first post saying I now trade in daily, hourly and M15, previously I have posted myself trading the kingdoms in M5/H1 so wanted to avoid anyone getting it confused with what I am doing now.

Very nice. Thanks for the link man.

Also, seems like UJ made it

Here is what I will be looking at Monday morning….


I have only drawn over the charts so others can see what I am looking at.


Ps. This is going to be a short week for me ending on Thursday, got to go for an operation on my neck/back on Friday, I will be out on Sunday so hopefully I will be well enough to trade again Monday.

slow on the news front today so not expecting to much movement.

a couple more entries as buyers appear to be showing interest here.

removed the lower bigger trade for now as i see sellers appearing, i will look to enter the next time i see buyers again.



here is the other trade, it has had a nice fall (pump) suggesting the rounded top could be valid, i will look to add on the retrace (rest) when more sellers appear.

this one has not moved much and looks to be struggling to break the top, i will have another look tomorrow now so removed all trades.



i am pulling all these out as well, there is news later and it is the end of my daylight now so again i will have another look at this tomorrow.

nothing much in the way of buyers appeared overnight despite some important news being released, let's see if this will be kind enough to give me a little more, entered a scout. got me eye on one or two others but no entries yet. another quite day news wise as well.

here is one i am watching.... waiting to see what happens at the moment.

killed the scout on this one now.