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February 2010 Trading Performance Review

By Paul | Published: March 2, 2010
I barely traded this month.  The total number of trades in February for my forex demo account is ten.  That’s far from my regular 150 – 250 trades a month.  Ever since my trading system was broken because of technical difficulties, I’ve changed my priorities in trading.  I spent most of my time in February [...]
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January 2010 Trading Performance Review

By Paul | Published: February 1, 2010
2010 didn’t begin well for me.  I experienced my biggest drawdown so far at -3.95% (see Figure 1 for my account balance graph) in my demo account.  Given that I only risk 0.2% per trade, this is a relatively substantial setback. Ironically, I was in the process of filling paper work to open a live account [...]
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December 2009 Trading Performance Review

By Paul | Published: January 4, 2010
I have set 2 goals back in November for December.  1) Think more, trade less; and 2) Be more aggressive on winners.  With 276 trades in December, I have failed miserably for goal #1.  I couldn’t meet my second goal either as I’ve missed most of the big moves from failing to recognize the bigger [...]
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November 2009 Trading Performance Review

By Paul | Published: December 1, 2009
This month has been a roller coaster in both the markets and my account balance (see Figure 1).  Here’s a quick recap of my paper trades in the forex markets for November.  I started out by cashing the carried over long yen and dollar positions from October.  Those trades could have been better as I [...]
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October 2009 Trading Performance Review

By Paul | Published: October 31, 2009
October is the first full month in which I traded forex.  Naturally, this is the first of my monthly trading performance review.  Note that all the trades were on a demo account with imaginary money only.  But I still took this seriously. My goal is to double this demo account starting from CAD$5000.  Once that is [...]
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End of Month Review: March is bear rally month

By Paul | Published: March 31, 2009
Yesterday’s market action was interesting to say the least.  After a quick bounce from the abyss throughout March, the market finally took a breather yesterday.  We made a huge gap down and managed to trade exactly within the 10 day and 40 day MA, see Figure 1 right. Throughout the month, it is obvious that we [...]
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