2 AM, and my schedule ( sleeping) issue took a turn to the worst! Yesterday I could not handle the sleepiness and I took a 1 hour nap. That was enough to screw me up completely. The result is that I'm awake since yesterday 5 PM I just don't ...

From mediocrity to mastery

Oh boy what a nice day! I was able to add 20 more pips so I'm closing my day with almost 50 pips! I wish all days turned out like today, 5 trades and only one wrong. I took a quick cold shower around 10AM which helped a lot to keep me awake and ...

From mediocrity to mastery

6:30 AM just closed a beautiful trade for +28 pips. It was +35 at one point but I can't complaint Good week so far, made in 2 days what took me the whole last week to do and with ten percent of effort. If I don't do anything stupid from now on I ...

From mediocrity to mastery

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Master Tater's Money Journal (Professional)

7:30 PM I did crash in the living room couch this afternoon . I really tried to stay awake but it was impossible! I slept for 2 or 3 hours so I'm still confident that I can go to bed in one hour and sleep. When I started trading I thought ...

From mediocrity to mastery

Nice clean day, considering that it is monday and mondays are usually my worst days I feel really blessed! 11:00 AM and I'm stopping my day. The fight now is to stay awake until 8 PM.

From mediocrity to mastery

Easy monday for me so far, 8:30 AM and I'm already 32 pips up! If I don't do anything stupid till 11:30 I may be able to start this week ahead of the game and maybe I will be able to make more than 100 pips and add to the last week. Lets see. ...

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From mediocrity to mastery

Ok, I went through my 2011 journal and found out that I'm up for 21 consecutively weeks. It came as a surprise for me because I thought that I was up for 60 weeks or so. The problem is that this particular week I was only -5 pips so I guess I did ...

From mediocrity to mastery

Hey trader thanks for stopping by. I think each person handles it differently, in my case if I don't sleep 6 hours at least I just can't function. I knew a girl that with 3 hours of sleep she was ok. At the end of this journal if I get to become a ...

From mediocrity to mastery

Ok, I'm stoping earlier today. Earlier in the morning I was up 30 pips or so now I'm starting to give back. I'm gonna end this week with +79 pips which is not that bad. I really tried to reach my 100 pip goal but if I keep pushing it today I may end ...

From mediocrity to mastery

Finally a decent easier day I was able to capture 50 pips from what so far has being a 165 pip session. On top of that I was able to identify and trade the right signal on the daily main move. Yesterday I went to bed around 8:30 PM but was unable ...

From mediocrity to mastery

Oanda is trying to pull a quick one on their clients. With spreads jumping around like crazy nobody will be able to call them and complaint about slippage anymore. In other words, you never know precisely how much you are paying to trade. That ...

OANDA Discussion

Ok it is 6:45 PM and I'm still trying to digest why I left myself slide to MEDIOCRITY today. I would like to stress that I'm not talking about my loss in itself but in the fact that I traded outside of my system. It may have something to do with the ...

From mediocrity to mastery

Not a very good day for me. I was 15 pips positive at some point but ended the day minus 15! Well my first down day of the year. Down days don't bother me that much, but the reason I got hammered today is what is driving me nuts. I cheated big time ...

From mediocrity to mastery

8:20 AM NY time. I'm currently 9 pips up. Made 2 trades early in the London session for around 5 pips each, than I got hammered for -9 pips in one trade and just closed another one for 8 pips. Yesterday I went to sleep around 10:30 PM and woke up ...

From mediocrity to mastery

I traded with oanda for a few years but took my money out a while ago. The reason? They don't care about their american clients. Just look how they are pampering their european and asian clients and give them more instruments to trade etc. American ...

OANDA Discussion

Today I was able to make 19 pips which is more in line with my daily goal. I still lost the main move just as I did yesterday but considering the overall smaller range I cant complain too much . Yesterday I was able to sleep around 8 PM but I woke ...

From mediocrity to mastery

Ok, daily recap. I woke up around 5 AM which is late by my standards. I have to be up and running by 3 AM but yesterday I found a problem in one of my computers and had to re-install windows. The result was me going to bed at 12:40 AM. Not cool! ...

From mediocrity to mastery

I don't mind you asking a honest question. I tried literally hundreds of systems and their variations during 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010 not only 6. By the second half of 2010 I settled for something "system wise" that made sense. It was the beginning ...

From mediocrity to mastery