Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Fast Trading the FOMC Statement +30 pips

Fed plans to leave rates near zero for some time. Read statement released by the Fed after its Jan. 27-28 meeting on interest rate policy.

News Event: US FOMC Statement
Short GBP/USD @ 1.4250 for +25 & 5 pips

Thursday, January 15, 2009

Newstrading Update: ECB Cut Rate by 50 Basis Points

Soon after the (Newstrader EA) program's exits, we saw the EUR/USD market did a major reversal of more than 150 pips. The program managed to make a lucky escape just in time. I was quite pleased with the fast scalp which in the end yielded a total of +58 pips.

News Event: ECB Press Conference
Long EUR/USD @ 1.3186 for +25 & 33 pips


Thursday, January 8, 2009

Newstrading EA: Making the Most Out of UK Rate Cut

The Bank of England has cut interest rates to 1.5%, the lowest level in its 315-year history.

I managed to established two long positions with the newstrader EA, and the newstrading program gave me the largest profit of this month so far (+89 pips).

Below is the price action following the interest rate announcement.

Long GBP/USD @ 1.5110 for +25 & 64 pips

Monday, January 5, 2009

The Start of 2009 & Daytrading Routine

Monday marked the start of the first full trading week for 2009. I officially kicked off my new year trading with two straight winners. Price volatility had come down quite a lot recently and I was able to make good use of my day trading program/plan. Owing to efforts made in 2008, now I keep a simple, automatic and discipline daytrading routine.

Below shows the two newly closed positions. The captured screenshots show my EA program's automatic entries and exits. Two exit targets were employed which produced a combined profit of +139 pips with the use of EA programs. A possible +85 pips with manual trade. All real-time trade entries and exits can be found on my daily spreadsheets - which is made available to my program subscribers.

European Session
No. of signal recommendations: 1
End-of-session results: USD/CAD +85 pips

100-pip EA
No. of auto-entries: 1
USD/CAD +40 & 43.5 pips
EA screenshot attached:


Day 15 - London Open Breakouts
No trade EUR/USD
Short EUR/JPY at 127.087 with stop at 127.687. Final Profits: +40 & 15.5 pips
EA screenshot attached:

Sunday, January 4, 2009

Last-Gasp 2008 Winners & Let's Start Over Again

100-pip EA Program @ ScoutForex (+233 pips for the month, +3,793 pips for the year)
Wed, Dec. 31st
USD/CAD + 40 & 50 pips

Tue, Dec. 30th
AUD/JPY + 40 & 73 pips
USD/CAD + 40 & 100 pips

Newstrader EA Program @ ScoutForex (+411 pips for the month, +3,317 pips for the year)
Tue, Dec. 30th
US Consumer Confidence + 25 & 46 pips
US Chicago PMI + 1 & 1 pips

2008 was finally behind us. Nonetheless, it was an exciting and rewarding year for all of us. Let's hope we can keep this up in the new year.