Sitting Out Monday 2012/03/27

I never liked trading Mondays. Monday mornings and Friday afternoons have always been “not good” for   me. I think most of the market is getting started late or taking off for the weekend early. This Monday had the Pending Home sale report and Dallas Fed Survey. The Pending home sales would move the market [...]

Two And Done…. At a Loss 2012/03/13

Started out in with a 8 ticks loss, which was a bummer, but I came back. The second trade, I jumped out at 3 ticks, right at around 808.5 when it started getting “noisy”. Since it was a counter trend trade, I like to jump out quicker. Waited around for a re-entry short but did [...]

6J Yen Trading Back to Normal 2012/02/16

It has been a horrible first month of the year for me. The volatility was has been horrible. But last week, I think we started getting tradable (is tradable a word ?) volatility. It has held up so far and the Greek thing is … well …. Greek. It should not have a effect on [...]

Nothing Today 2011/06/14

We had some reports that moved the market, and it was mainly an straight trending day, something that I am not particularly good at trading. I like reversals in trends and I did not see any good places in the morning to get in, so I wandered off. There were some trades later in the [...]

Glad To Be Back, and I Made Money 2011/06/13

Today was a typical day in trading. I was trading and something in my personal life got me out of the zone so to speak. Trading distracted is no way to trade, so better to walk away which is what I did after two trades. These trades were in my smaller account on a different [...]

Roll Over Time !! ( Is it September Already ) 2011/06/09

I must admit I messed this one up. For some reason I came and checked my econ calendar and noticed that today was roll over day. I really thought it was next week for some reason. I don’t trade on roll over days for good reason. I tend to lose money on roll over days [...]