I say this because I kinda mess up the timing of entry and exit. I hold positions longer even though im in the 5 minute chart, resulting in losses. I tend to close position on a winning trade too early on a longer chart (days) and the result, I don’t earn much money as I have to.

So knowing the right mix would give you the idea how long should you hold trades.

Main Goal for 2010
$5,000 profit per month in forex trading.

By the end of 2010 I should be earning at least $5,000 per month. Breaking it down to days $5,000 / 20 = $250. That is $250 per day.

How To Reach Goal

• I’ll be patient.
• Trade only on longer charts. Daily / Weekly. I’ve had very bad experience with day trading but have great success with daily and weekly, so I’ll stick with daily and weekly for now until I’m familiar with day trading on demo account.
• Follow the trend.
• Follow my system.
• Remind myself to refrain from overtrading.

My ultimate goal is to earn my first million dollar with forex. But it will take a while I know. Just keeping a more reachable goal for now based on my experience.

I don’t know… Since I started trading, I’m never been more excited about mondays. When I was still in a full time job, I despise mondays! But now, I’m excited and I can’t even sleep sometimes.

What do you think? Do you trade mondays?

Bar B is a doji which means bears and bulls are almost equal. But have a potential as a signal to indicate a bullish trend. So I try and wait if the next bar is bull to enter the trade. It proved to be a bull and closed just above the inside bar’s range. So I entered long depicted in the arrow.

As of now, its +63 pips.

I trade successfully on daily charts and I love the freedom it brings because sometimes, I don’t have to trade everyday and I get to do something else. While I wait for the next candle stick, it will take another day. That is why when I tried trading on smaller time frames. I never got any profit.

I don’t know. Maybe its just me. I still follow my rules but the fact that intraday trading is a whole new beast than the other charts. I realize that if I really want to be successful in this. I need to master one chart at a time.

Many books claiming that their method are great on any charts. I don’t know. Maybe just my strategy is not that good. That is why I bought some books for reading. I’ll post some of the things I learned and tested once I finished reading the book.

Place: Manila, Makati Shangri-La Hotel

Address: Ayala Avenue corner Makati Avenue, Makati City 1200 Philippines

Organizer: FINEXPO - is the producer of international exhibitions, forums and conferences worldwide.

PHILIPPINES FOREX EXPO 2010 will definitely interest you if you want to get a unique knowledge and obtain an overview of FOREX market; identify new products and application possibilities; exchange experiences and information; find out about the function and properties of certain products; make new business contacts.

PHILIPPINES FOREX EXPO 2010 gives you the opportunity to communicate with representatives of large companies, to learn the latest working outs concerning the subject of exhibition, buy specialized literature, as well as watch different entertaining shows.

Each participant can be sure about the professional approach to exhibition`s organization and each visitor about the individual approach of exponents to their person.

Exhibition topics:

The dynamic Event program educates attendees on all the latest technological advances in the FOREX services and meets the needs of each individual attendee by providing detailed information and solutions on such topics as: internet trading on the FOREX market, software (programs of analysis and risk-management, portfolio management), quick access lines, trading instruction on FOREX market, FOREX market tools, strategy and tactics on the FOREX market, FOREX market indexes, trading tactics, trading platforms and technical analysis and many more;

It also offers a variety of sessions that allow participants to discuss industry trends, hear expert views on key issues and learn about new products and needs.

The exhibit portion of the event complements the conference programming showcasing solutions that demonstrate how to succeed in the fast growing FOREX marketplace. The expo includes live demonstrations of the latest analytical and execution software and trading tools. It’s a great chance to meet with business experts face-to-face, learn the latest trends from industry leaders and get the insight you need to acquire business, expand relationships and enhance profitability.

We look forward to seeing you at our show in Manila !

Jesse Livermore: The Worlds Greatest Stock Trader by Richard Smitten
1. Don’t Lose money
2. Always Establish a Stop
3. Keep Cash in reserve
4. Let the (Successful) Position ride…until you have a Clear Reason to Sell.
5 Take the Profits in cash…and place 50% in a separate account

Lessons From the Greatest Stock Traders of all Time by John Boik
1. Trade with the Trend
2. Cut Losses short
3. Let Profits run
4. Manage Risk

How Legendary Traders made Millions by John Boik

1. Understand the General Trend of the market
2. Use the Knowledge of History in your Study and Observation of the Markets
3. Use your Own Research and Don’t Listen to Others
4. Buy the Leaders
5. Buy only on Breakouts and Use a Pyramiding Strategy to add to those Winners
6 Cut Your Losses short
7. Hold on to your Winning Positions until Classic Sell Signals tell you to unload your Positions

The inside of an inside bar can be a series of different bars. What you want to do is wait for the last bar which will tell you what will be the next trend. An inside bar is an indication of a new trend forming or an end of the trend for those who are already riding the wave and needs to get out.

There are:
1. no rent of offices (that is, NO dealing with Realtors, Lawyers, and government departments…man, what a pain in the ass). Also no office fit-out costs

2. no staff, (man, unless you have had large numbers of staff depending on YOU for their paypacket each week, you cannot know what a huge pain in the ass it is. They ALL want you to solve their problems)

3. No inventory or stock to buy. No shrinkage (theft of stock) and no “slow moving” items. No massive amount of funds tied up in inventory

4. You can “borrow” as much as you want (by increasing your leverage), WHENEVER you want. (Try running a big business and going to the bank for a short term loan for $10 mill…it will take a month minimum). I am trading $10-12 mill all the time and I get it instantly through the brokers by the use of leverage.

5. If the business becomes a hassle for whatever reason, you can shut it down (that is, close all positions) instantly…and re-open (initiate new positions) whenever YOU want to re-open your “business.”

6. You can “scale” your business to whatever size YOU want simply by increasing/decreasing your positions.

7. Absolutely minimal paperwork. Simply send your 12 month summary Profit and Loss Statement to your Financial Accountant for tax payment purposes.

8. You can trade from anywhere in the world. My wife and I travel most of the year. (take your laptop or PDA or whatever else they will come up with and trade while sipping a nice drink as close by as your local cafe or as far as some open air cafe in some remote little town in beautiful Italy while you watch a bocce match at the park.)

I could keep telling you more of the benefits of this business, but suffice to say…this is the best “business” in the world. I run a multi-multimillion dollar business from my laptop.

And did I mention that it was exciting and fun????

But of course, not everybody can because of certain elements like willingness to learn and take risk. Only few people becomes successful and they control a market of $4 trillion dollar value.

Note to self: Enter trades that have powerful indicators first…

In forex trading, I think its more of a psychological business for the most part and only 1% technical. Why did I say so? It’s quite simple, in forex trading, you only need to buy or sell, to long or to short. There always 50% chance to profit and 50% chance to lose. But why is that 95% of all forex traders fail? It’s because its a psychological struggle.

I am not in a way a professional or experienced trader. That is the purpose of this site. I keep my trades here so I can reflect back on trades I lost or won and hopefully gain experience in the process and also help individuals who find themselves at lost or struck with a heavy loss in the trade. For one thing, a loss in forex trading is always given and its how you manage your money that will separate you from a typical gambler to a successful forex trader.

Having your emotions affect your decision in a trade is the most common thing why people fail. Greed, fear and anxiety is most of the time, the culprit why you have negative pips in your account. I try to remind myself again and again to trade based on what I see and not what I want to see. If I’ll lose, I hope to lose less and if I win, I win enough to cover my next 2 or 3 trades. Most of it is money management.

The difference between a gambler and a trader is that, a gambler trades enough just to get his money back, in most cases, he won’t. A trader trades enough just to cover his future trades, giving him profit.