08:35am  ~  I was going to have a day in the study doing some trading plus emails and Skype calls, but there’s been a family medical emergency so I am off now to sort things out, I will report later. No time to do an market update either today – sorry !

15:25pm  ~  Back here at the cottage now, the drama has subsided for a while and I can get down to some emails and even a bit of trading if the opportunity presents itself. Re-booked the Skype calls for early evening/tomorrow morning.

16:55  ~  Well this has turned out to be very busy afternoon trading session.  I got into two “short” trades in the last 30 minutes, one on my S&P500 chart and the other on Brent Oil. They’re both coming down nicely at the moment.  I can also see a potential “Trade With A Day Job” starting to set-up.

19:30pm  ~  I did end up having a third trade with my “beginners” trading strategy that I mentioned earlier and as I’ve now got to go out & sort things from this morning’s episode, I’ve had to close all my positions off slightly prematurely.  My first trade (S&P500) came in at +30 pips, my second (Brent Oil) gave me +58 pips and my “Trade With A Day Job” position was curtailed at 17237 which meant a gain of +33 pips.No quiet drink in the local tonight for me…..

Daily Target Reached ?  YES (+121pips)    I traded for 4 hours today, late afternoon through to early evening