9:35am ~ The big news this morning is that the UK’s Public Sector Net Borrowing has fallen for January and you can read about what this means for the UK economy here. For me – well I’ve got some emails to catch-up with and this morning I also have 5 Skype sessions with people who are thinking of purchasing my starter trading system. This afternoon I am going to go into town to sort out a last minute winter break for next week.
I will report back a bit later with news of my evening trading session.
8:25pm ~ I have had a couple of trades this evening, my 1st one kicked off just before 5:30pm and gave me +40 pips and normally that would do me as far as my daily target is concerned, but two things happened after my first trade. Firstly my evening out at the pub was put back an hour and then a lovely looking trade signal came up just after 7 o’clock, so I got into a short just before 7:30pm. This quick trade resulted in a +20 pip profit and now I am all finished with trading I am off to the pub.
Daily Target Reached Today ? YES (+60 pips) I just traded for a few hours this evening
10:20am ~ I have had a nice lie in this morning, although I did do some emails upstairs earlier. I did not arrive here until midnight, and as I passed the Lord Nelson I noticed a few friends in there still drinking, so I had to stop for a quick one….. I have some friends coming around at lunchtime and we’re all off for a cycle ride for a few hours. I shall be back in time for the evening trading session.
You can read more about the facts behind the Greek Bail Out here
7:45pm ~ I kicked off my evening trading session with two trades within 15 minutes of each other – the first one gave me +30 pips and the 2nd = +47 pips.
Daily Target Reached Today ? YES (+77 pips) I traded for two and a half hours this evening
8:45am ~ No trading for me today, there is another Bank Holiday in the U.S. so a few markets will be closed and those that are open will be lacking volume, so it’s best to stand aside and have a day off.
I arrived back from Portugal yesterday, so I have some jobs to do around the house (here in Essex) and then I am off to the cottage in Suffolk later on today. Before I went on holiday I booked a few Skype sessions with people who want to know a bit more about my systems, so that will take up a couple of hours later on.
10:15am ~ Not much trading for me this week, I am having a week’s holiday in Portugal to get way from the cold and rain of the UK. If I do any trading I will report back later, but cerainly none today or this evening as it’s Valentine’s Day and we’re out on the town later.
I will be back in the UK on Sunday.
8:00am ~ Hello to all of you – it’s Friday again, and so my weekend starts here!! No trading for me today, just some emails for an hour and then into London by train for a relaxing weekend away.
You can read about Simon Denham’s take on the Greek Bail-Out deal here.
I hope you all have a nice, relaxing weekend.
9:00am ~ Had a nice lie in this morning, and I am now off to a friend’s farm for a spot of clay-pigeon shooting. I shall be back after lunch, and I will report back this evening with any trading news I may have for you.
Today is Bank Of England interest rate announcement day once again, and the general feeling is that they are keeping them at 0.5% as they have done for quite a while.
8:35pm ~ I got back here to the cottage just after lunch and spent the afternoon doing a bit of emailing and also reading last week’s Sunday papers as I’ve not had a chance yet.
My trading this evening has gone well, I had a nice long trade on the S&P500 with one of my trendFX strategies – which gave me +50 pips at the end – and I also got into a “Evening-System” trade just after 6 o’clock and that gently rose in the right direction but a short while ago it hit resistance so I came out with just +9 pips as the market has now completley stalled. Also I want to get out for the evening as friends are here waiting for me.
Daily Target Reached Today ? YES (+59 pips) I just traded the evening session tonight.
08:20am ~ I was up with the larks this morning after an uninterupted sleep last night, and I wandered down here to the kitchen at 7 o’clock and had a few bits of toast & coffee while I waited for my MT4 platform to load onto a laptop. I can scroll through quite a number of charts within a very short time with this platform, and the only interesting thing I could see was a potential signal coming up on my Brent Oil chart. It worked out ok and just before 7:20 I was in a ‘long’ trade. I got out just after 8am with my daily target of 20 pips.
I’m off for a cycle ride for an hour and then back here to do some emails and a couple of Skype sessions with prospective customers. I will report back later if I do anymore trading this evening.
On the news front, it is reported that Greece is close to agreeing a deal with the IMF for their next tranche of bail-out money.
9:15pm ~ Well that’s me done for the evening – I had 3 trades, two with my part-time “Evening” system and one earlier with my trendFX collection of systems. The scores were +63, -11 and +33 pips, so my overall score for the evening came out at +85 pips. With my morning’s efforts, I have a grand total of +105 pips for the day, well over my normal target.
Out now for supper with friends.
Daily Target Reached Today ? YES (+105 pips) I traded for just over an hour this morning plus the evening session
9:30am ~ Did not sleep that well last night, and at 5:15am I was wide awake, so I got up and fixed a strong coffee and sat down in my kitchen with a couple of laptops – I started replying to emails and at 6 o’clock fired up my MT4 trading platform to see if I could spot any trade signals with my trendFX collection of (5) strategies.
The first one I saw was on my ‘Gold’ chart and just after 6:30am I was in a long trade with strategy 3 from the trendFX trading manual. The price shot up nicely and I was out with a +25 pip profit just after 7:00am. I then had a Skype call with a guy who is thinking of purchasing my “Evening” trading system from Australia, then afterwards I went back to my charts & got into an S&P500 ‘short’ trade that had popped up. Within 30 minutes the price had dropped to an obvious resistance point, so I came out of the market as I really wanted to get showered and get on the road upto my cottage in Suffolk. That last trade gave me +17 pips, so quite happy with my earnings this morning.
I will report back later if I do any “evening” trading and add to my +42 pip profit so far.
Top financial news this morning was the headlines that Anglo-Dutch Oil giant BP has returned to profitability after the disaster at the Deepwater Horizon Oil Rig 2 years ago. They have posted profits of €18 billion – well done !
6:05pm ~ I arrived up here just before lunchtime and had a lovely ‘brunch’ in ‘The Crown’ – and then back here to the cottage for a session answering emails. I did also manage to fit in a cycle across the fields and over the river to Walberswick – then back here for 4:00pm ready for some trading with my “Evening” trading system at 5 o’clock.
The U.S. markets staged a big upward movement as soon as the Fed Chairman began his testimony on the state of the U.S. economy to the Senate Budget Commitee at 3pm (UK time) and by the time I switched on my S&P500 chart, the market had lost its momentum and so I lost all enthusiasm for searching for trade opportunities. This situation is quite rare, it only happens perhaps once every couple of months, but it gives me the opportunity to finish my “evening” trading session early and wander down to The Lord Nelson for a couple of hours. Got to be back by 8 o’clock though – the girlfriend will be arriving then…..
Daily Target Reached Today ? YES (+42 pips) I trade the early morning session today.
2:20pm ~ Good afternoon to you all, I am back from a long weekend away and going to spend the afternoon tucked away in the warm enviroment of my office above the garage answering a heap of emails, plus I have three Skype calls booked with prospective customers.
There is talk of a solution to the Greek Economic Problem and you can read Simon Denham’s take on the situation here. As you may remember he’s the boss at Capital Spreads in London.
I quite fancy getting back into the markets later, so I’ll report back later if I have anything of note to tell you about concerning my trading account.
10:05pm ~ I have had a few trades this evening, two with my “Evening” starter system and one with my ‘multi-strategy’ trendFX system. My first trade just after 5 o’clock ended up being stopped out quite soon with a minus 14 pip score. My 2nd and 3rd trades happened together even though one was from strategy ONE (trendFX) and the other from my “Trade With A Day Job” system. They both gave me a profit of +20 pips each when I got out just before 10 o’clock. I don;t usually stay in the market this late, but the index I was trading was moving very slowly after the U.S. market close at 9pm UK time.
I shall be up early in the morning to do some trading before I set off for Suffolk for a few days. The weather is always more dramatic by the coast !
Daily Target Reached Today ? YES (+26 pips) I just traded the “evening” session today.
Hi there ~ I’ve just passed on December/January’s trading results to my eldest son Max (who deals with all Markets Mastered admin/website/I.T. issues) so he can put them up on the ‘Results’ page here on the Markets Mastered website. I must admit I completely forgot at the end of Dec/Jan ! He’s currently away on well-deserved holiday so the update may take a few days.
As you may know if you’ve been reading this blog for a while, I have a daily target for my “Evening” system of just +20 pips (points) and that is more than enough to compound your trading account into a very large sum of money in a few short years. The nice thing about trading is you will occasionally have an session where the price just goes in your direction for a long time, and you end up with double/triple your original target, which is a nice unexpected bonus a few times a month. If you want to know more about my “easy-to-copy” (not my words) trading strategies, drop me an email when you have a couple of spare minutes. I can then show you how you can have a much more relaxed ‘working’ week, and have plenty of spare time.
Anyway – In December 2011 I managed to earn +371 pips with my “Trade With A Day Job” part-time evening system and +303 pips for January 2012. If you read through this blog, you will see that additional pips were earned with my trendFX collection of systems as well.
