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  • #121
  • Sep 8, 2014 8:02am Sep 8, 2014 8:02am
So... Sunday night treated me badly. That opening print on GU did the a double knock out for me. It triggered my stop and I was out at 1.61582(which honestly I'm not concerned about about, remember this was a tiny trade that barely even bite into my balance.), but then on top of it, it triggered my buy order that I put in @ 1.6243. Luckly they gave me the price of 1.61781, but jesus, because of Oanda's ridiculous spread, I think I ended up nearly a 20 pip spread from the opening price. That HURTS. I swear if I had a bigger balance, I'd give Oanda the boot immediately. But since I'm dealing with a penny account, there isn't much use in it.

In other news... I went to the Husker game on Saturday, and about had a heart attack as they barely beat McNeese St. Anytime you are barely beating a school with a school name that uses State, and they aren't even a REAL state... Thats a problem. Huskers need to get thier act together and quick, or it might be a long year.

Oh, and my Royals... They won 2 out of 3 against the Yankees, so I was super pumped up about that. If the Royals actually make the playoffs this year, I'm probably gonna have to drop mad cash to go to a playoff game. Its only been 29 years since they've been in the playoffs, so money literally is no object in this case.

Well, hope everyone has a good day and makes green pips!
  • #122
  • Sep 8, 2014 11:36am Sep 8, 2014 11:36am
Quoting Nate04
So... Sunday night treated me badly. That opening print on GU did the a double knock out for me. It triggered my stop and I was out at 1.61582(which honestly I'm not concerned about about, remember this was a tiny trade that barely even bite into my balance.), but then on top of it, it triggered my buy order that I put in @ 1.6243. Luckly they gave me the price of 1.61781, but jesus, because of Oanda's ridiculous spread, I think I ended up nearly a 20 pip spread from the opening price. That HURTS. I swear if I had a bigger balance, I'd...



"Anytime you are barely beating a school with a school name that uses State, and they aren't even a REAL state... Thats a problem."

  • #123
  • Sep 8, 2014 12:41pm Sep 8, 2014 12:41pm
Quoting srt
{quote} "Anytime you are barely beating a school with a school name that uses State, and they aren't even a REAL state... Thats a problem."
Scary thing is, we got another state school thats not a real state this weekend coming up too. We better kick Fresno St's butt!
  • #124
  • Sep 9, 2014 7:20am Sep 9, 2014 7:20am
Good morning everyone. Just another day collecting interest for me. All trades still open. Forgot to mention on my GU trade that was put in yesterday, my new line in the sand for cutting it loose is at 1.58532. Time to see what happens...
  • #125
  • Sep 11, 2014 8:14am Sep 11, 2014 8:14am
Good morning all. A couple of major updates today. I cut loose my GU trade and NJ trades last evening. The GU trade again, wasn't a huge deal, because I risked so little that I just didn't see the point going forward. I cut it loose @ 1.61923, for a 14.2 pip win. I'm probably done trading GU for awhile. Just not much upside in it for me with current plan.

The NJ trade I close due to the shooting star formation on the D1 candle. I had 2 positions open on it, if you remember. I closed them both at 87.508, one for 64.5 pips, the other for 80.9 pips won. So I got a decent win there.

I currently have a new buy order on NJ set at 86.000. We will see if it gets there.
  • #126
  • Sep 12, 2014 11:01am Sep 12, 2014 11:01am
Put in a small long on NZD/CHF at 76.134. Another interest collecting trade. Cut loose point is .75016 to the downside, and TP will be .77166 to the upside.
  • #127
  • Sep 12, 2014 3:03pm Sep 12, 2014 3:03pm
Time to call it a weekend for me. Take care everyone. I'll collect my interest and be back Sunday night.

Oh, and of course, GO BIG RED!!!
  • #128
  • Sep 12, 2014 3:05pm Sep 12, 2014 3:05pm
Good Weekend Nate!

No more "state" flubs either :-)
  • #129
  • Sep 12, 2014 3:06pm Sep 12, 2014 3:06pm
Quoting srt
Good Weekend Nate! No more "state" flubs either :-)
Lets hope not!
  • #130
  • Sep 12, 2014 3:17pm Sep 12, 2014 3:17pm
Quoting Nate04
{quote} Lets hope not!
I'd hate to ask my Hartington Cedar Catholic Trojans to go & show them how it's done :-)
At least we have the same red color so maybe they'd take it alright.
  • #131
  • Sep 15, 2014 7:54am Sep 15, 2014 7:54am
Time to get back at it after a nice weekend. Collected 2 days worth of interest. My trades seem to be going well as of right now. Huskers throttled Fresno St. Got my yardwork done on Sunday... Good times all around.

Anyways, still long NZD/CHF. Will see how it goes. Hope everyone has a great day!
  • #132
  • Sep 16, 2014 12:33pm Sep 16, 2014 12:33pm
Forgot to update yesterday. Probably because I have nothing new to report. Still in all positions... Still collecting daily interest.
  • #133
  • Sep 18, 2014 11:51am Sep 18, 2014 11:51am
So today has been one of the most frustrating mornings in my life. This has nothing to do with trading, but I have been attempting all morning to purchase Royals playoff tickets. And all I have to say is the Royals ticket website might be the biggest joke in the history of the world. I must have tried about 50 times to purchase tickets, each time running into a website error, or error with my CC, which I know is complete BS because I never keep much of a balance on it. I had great tickets lined up, right behind the Royals dugout at one point when I got yet another error. Anyways, I just gave up after awhile. I ended up paying probably double what I would have the Royals site, and got tickets on a secondary sellers site. Honestly, if it wasn't for the fact they haven't been to the playoffs for 29 years, I would have just said screw it and not bought any.

Anyways... Enough of that rant. All my trades are still currently open. Still collecting interest. No major changes at this time. Perhaps closing in on making a decent sized trade on NZD/JPY. Time will tell.
  • #134
  • Sep 19, 2014 2:07pm Sep 19, 2014 2:07pm
Nothing much to report again today. No new trades, still collecting interest on my open ones.

Just wanted to put a GO BIG RED!!!!


Gotta beat those Hurricanes this weekend!

Have a great weekend everyone.

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  • #135
  • Sep 22, 2014 10:01am Sep 22, 2014 10:01am
Good morning everyone... Nothing new to report on my existing trades. Collected another weekend worth of interest. Still waiting to see which direction the trades decide to go.

I have a larger size long trade ready to be taken on the AU at .8665 if it gets there. If it does, I'll be playing for a 1000 pips to the upside, risking about 150 pips. Still about 200 pips away from being taken. We'll have to see what happens. Things are not looking good for the Aussie currently, and this might be bad trade to take just based the sentiment right now. But this is a place where buyers have been located in the past, so I'm willing to take it because the R:R is amazing. If that trade fails, my eyes would be on .8068 next.
  • #136
  • Sep 23, 2014 8:57am Sep 23, 2014 8:57am
Good morning all.

A quick summary on how things are going.

Still long on NZD/CHF from .76134. Not looking good at the moment, but I'm still comfortable. Will bail on this trade at .75016. Will put in a new position at that level too.

Long on NU from .811318. This trade is going poorly as well, but it has a long ways to go before the pull the plug on this trade. My stop is is the .7800 range. At which point I'll add a new position as well.

I should mention, these trades are tiny, and really only serve to give me some interest in the account everyday. I'm never going to get rich/or poor from these trades. It is just to see activity on my account everyday. So I guess you could say its for fun, while making some interest.

Now, the real ones...

NJ, I have a pending long order in at 86.00 still. Long ways to go before it gets taken, the risk reward is going to be about 1:3.

AU I have a pending long at .8665. This trade is currently 200 pips away from being taken. Read my post above for the explaination on this trade.

Thats all for now. Have a great day, and hope everyone makes green pips today.
  • #137
  • Sep 24, 2014 12:28pm Sep 24, 2014 12:28pm
I'm going to try out a new trading system I'm considering on a tiny scale to see how well it works.

I'm going long on UJ at 108.88. I might be late joining into this party, we will see. If so, I'll be happy to go back the other way when the signal presents itself.

All my other trades will continue as is.
  • #138
  • Sep 25, 2014 8:00am Sep 25, 2014 8:00am
I've cancelled my pending order long at @86.00 for NZD/JPY. The statements yesterday by NZ reserve bank yesterday, makes it seem as if we may go much lower than 86. Anyways, I'm not in the mood to try to catch a falling knife...
  • #139
  • Sep 25, 2014 11:03am Sep 25, 2014 11:03am
Quoting Nate04
Still long on NZD/CHF from .76134. Not looking good at the moment, but I'm still comfortable. Will bail on this trade at .75016. Will put in a new position at that level too.
Out of this trade @ .75014. Took the loss. its fine, again, tiny trading amount. No worries.

New long trade taken @ .7506. Hopefully this one works out better. Either way, still gonna collect interest the whole time. Eventually one will work out.
  • #140
  • Oct 1, 2014 6:20am Oct 1, 2014 6:20am
Quoting Nate04
So today has been one of the most frustrating mornings in my life. This has nothing to do with trading, but I have been attempting all morning to purchase Royals playoff tickets. And all I have to say is the Royals ticket website might be the biggest joke in the history of the world. I must have tried about 50 times to purchase tickets, each time running into a website error, or error with my CC, which I know is complete BS because I never keep much of a balance on it. I had great tickets lined up, right behind the Royals...
Wow! What a game. Hope you enjoyed it.
Go Royals!
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