8:45 am  ~    Unusually for me, I am up early on a Monday morning and down here in the kitchen at the cottage in Suffolk watching a few charts on this laptop.  The markets often take a while to settle down at the beginning of the week, but my GOLD chart was fairly uniform [...]

Having been requested by quite a few customers over the past week about money management and compounding of trading accounts, I have compiled a short document on the subject – you can read it here: Trading successfully, money management & compounding your earnings

9:55am  ~  No time for any trading today, I’m off for a cycle ride with friends in a minute, then off to Suffolk for the weekend after lunch. I’ll report back on Monday – and I hope you all have a nice relaxing weekend. My trading this week has produced a profit of +225 pips [...]

10:30am  ~   Just turned my trading screen on for a couple of hours to watch for any set-ups on my favourite instruments *   – the only thing I can see brewing is a possible short trade on my GOLD chart – I will report back later with any news.  I am out with friends [...]

13:40  ~    I had a bit of a lie-in this morning, and once I was up at 9 o’clock I did 30 minutes admin then went off for a refreshing (and extremely bracing) cycle ride off along the river towpath – there and back was 22miles in total. Once I was back, I got [...]

9:40am (UK time)  ~   Got back to the UK late last night, it seems that the east of the country has been particularly badly hit with strong winds and snow storms. Missing the sun already… In the financial markets this morning, the FTSE100 index has started strong again on the back of yesterday’s record high finish of [...]

  Much is made of possible psychological ‘challenges’ that nearly all new traders come up against when learning to trade.  If you do not master these problems, you will have a tough time it turning in a profit from your daily trading. My education for budding-traders takes care of any potential problems you’ll have with [...]

10:15am (CET)  ~   There’s no trading for me today – two reasons for that.  Firstly I’m away for a short break to attend the Geneva Motor Show and secondly it is the monthly U.S. employment figure announcement (Non-Farm-Payroll)  today, so the markets will usually be quite quiet for the first part of the day, and [...]

14:05pm (CET)  ~   I’ve had a restful day at home this morning, a couple of Skype calls and answering emails mainly, packing for a short trip tonight to Geneva and also helping my next-door neighbour with a swimming pool problem.  We have a late flight tonight, so I maybe able to do some trading before [...]

18:30 (CET)  ~  I have had a day on my motorbike – it’s been quite sunny so perfect on the roads. I went down to Cartagena on the ‘coast’ road rather than the motorway, around 200kms each way.  I’m back now in the kitchen in front of this laptop trading my “evening” system, and in [...]