Day 7 (Monday, July 17th): Increased to $2323 Increased account by $94 today. Made 9 pips on EUR/USD. Lost 2 pips on EUR/USD. Made $15.00 in swap on EUR/USD. EUR/CHF did not work out at all for me today. The spread was still 4 pips this morning, ...

Jake's Live Trading Results

Day 6 (Sunday, July 16th): Decreased to $2229 Decreased account by -$51 today. Gained 2 pips on EUR/CHF. Gained 1 pip on EUR/USD. Lost 8 pips on USD/JPY. I am pretty upset with MIG today... I received TREMENDOUS amounts of re-quotes when I was ...

Jake's Live Trading Results

Day 5 (Friday, July 14th): Increased to $2280 Increased account by $232 today. I consider this a very good Friday. Made 22 pips on EUR/CHF. Lost 2 pips on EUR/CHF. (Slow Trigger Finger) Made 7 pips on EUR/USD. Thanks to my printed news calender for ...

Jake's Live Trading Results

Sometimes these markets will pull a mean trick on you Thankfully I am coming back strong from my mishap, as I hope you have as well.

Jake's Live Trading Results

Day 4 (Thursday, July 13th): Increased to $2048 Increased account by $194 today. I consider my results today to be good, but not exceptional. Made 17 pips on EUR/USD. Made 3 pips on EUR/CHF. No loss trades today. I have brought the account back up ...

Jake's Live Trading Results

Day 3 (Wednesday, July 12th): Decreased to $1854 I made a loss of -$357 today. See post #7 for details. I made 2 pips on EUR/CHF this morning. I lost 84 pips on EUR/CHF this afternoon. I made 29 pips on EUR/USD. I lost 3 pips on EUR/USD. I made ...

Jake's Live Trading Results

Glad you have enjoyed my logs so far. Hopefully I'll be running this thread until I reach my first goal; paying off my car, student loans, and credit cards. Sum total of about $25,000 if you add all of them up. The method I use works quite a bit ...

Jake's Live Trading Results

Had a little mishap today... I failed to check for news today and thusly was in the wrong side of EUR/CHF when the announcements hit. Since this pair normally does not move alot I had 3 different 1 lot trades open with no pre-set Stop Loss (this ...

Jake's Live Trading Results

Day 2 (Tuesday, July 11th): Increased to $2211 Increased account by $154 today. Made 18 pips on EUR/CHF. Lost 4 pips on EUR/CHF. Made 4 pips on EUR/USD. My large loss for the day, a 3-pip loss on EUR/CHF on one trade, was caused by a slow trigger ...

Jake's Live Trading Results

Thanks for the support When you look at it that way I suppose it is pretty good, although it is just alot lower than what I am used to from demo! So far today I have tripled what I did yesterday, I had far fewer re-quotes and there was no ...

Jake's Live Trading Results

Day 19 (Monday, July 10th): Increased to $10,851 Increased account by $74 today. Made 3 pips on EUR/CHF at 3 lots. I played around a little this morning and made that amount and suddenly I got the e-mail from MIG Investments that my funds transfer ...

Demo Account Log, Part II

Day 18 (Sunday, July 9th): Increased to $10,777 Increased account by $809 today. Made 33 pips on EUR/CHF today. Same pip gain as my previous best day on Thursday but with larger trades. All trades were 3 lots today. No loss trades today. **** Lot ...

Demo Account Log, Part II

Day 17 (Friday, July 7th): Increased to $9968 Increased account by $311 today. Made 19 pips on EUR/CHF today. No loss trades today. It seems as if I have gotten the hang of trading Friday. I almost had an issue with the NFP release today... but I ...

Demo Account Log, Part II

I also believe it is possible. With demo I am close to doubling account size and I have only been running this demo for 18 days so far (today is day 19). This is using almost exclusively 2 lot trades (sometimes I do use other sizes, but not more ...

I'm recruiting: $5000 -> $5,000,000 3 years

Day 16 (Thursday, July 6th): Increased to $9657 Increased account by $578 today, a new record again. Made 33 pips on EUR/CHF today. No losses today. No other pairs besides EUR/CHF were traded today. Lots sizes were: 2 for most trades 1 lot for three ...

Demo Account Log, Part II

I tend to catch the tail of news action... I'll enter a position once it's moving and bail out with a gain of 10 pips or so to secure what I've made and to try to avoid the rebound at the bottom effect that happens. At that point I tend to avoid ...

NFP Strategy

Day 12 (Sunday, July 2nd): Increased to $7905 Account increased by $232 today. Gained 4 pips on EUR/USD. Gained 1 pip on USD/JPY. Gained 8 pips on EUR/CHF and lost 1 pip on EUR/CHF. All trades utilized my standard 2 lots. **** Day 13 (Monday, July ...

Demo Account Log, Part II

I am very interested to see how this works out for me live. I did experience one more re-quote on my demo today, so it appears that they *can* indeed happen but only on 0.75% of my trades so far. I have mailed my application to MIG Investments and ...

Broker with hands down tightest spread/commissions

Day 10 (Thursday, June 29th): Increased to $7,466 Increased the account by $227 today which is a decent day for me. I made two loss trades on EUR/CHF today for a total of an 11 pip loss on 2 standard lots on each losing trade. Two of my trades had ...

Demo Account Log, Part II