Garfield's Journal - Trading FX,Futures&Stocks

After years of just browsing, I have decided to start writing a journal.

There is no specific reason, just thought would share some of my trade ideas.

My background-

I began trading part time in 2006 as I also had a separate business to run.

For the first two years I was just fooling myself - looking for tips, trading without much analysis, taking positions atleast 5-10 times bigger than what my account size warranted, having no idea about reading the charts. You name it and I was making that mistake.

I was fortunate to catch the copper upswing in 2006 which gave me a false sense of confidence.

In summer of 2008 because of a customer bankruptcy, I had to take a major loss in my business, my health deteriorated and finally my bad habits and undisciplined approach to trading caught up. In June 2008 I lost 75% of what i had made trading in 2006-2007.

I was shell shocked and after few weeks of soul searching I decided that I will close my business and get into trading full time, but doing it the way I built my business.

From the beginning I was doing both futures and stocks and then last year I started doing fx.

Here are my results from Jul 2008 fwd
 

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Limit Orders

1. Buy 500k AUD/CAD at .9910 with a stop at .9810

2. Buy 2 contracts of Nov Crude at 80.75 and 2 at 80.20, stops at 79.75 and 79.20

3. Buy 2 contracts Dec Euro(cme futures) at 1.3795 and 2 at 1.3765 with stops at 1.3735
 
Buying 500k of eur/gbp at .8807 with a 100 pip stop

this cross is breaking the trendline from all time highs and boe is supposed to follow fed and ecb is making noises about withdrawing stimulus

Two charts - daily and weekly of eur/gbp
 

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Taking profits on the yen trade at 81.77, as it doesnt seem to be going anywhere

Total Profit(on closed trades - commissions) = $1500

Open Positions -

1. 4 contracts long euro(2 at 1.3795 and 2 at 1.393), stops at 1.3848

2. 500k long aud/cad at .991, bracket order to take profits at .9988 or loss at .985

3. 500k long eur/gbp at .8807, stops at .8707

No other open trades
 
Took profit on aud/cad from this morning, selling at .9988

Profit this trade = $3850

Total Profits(Only all closed trades) = $9725

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Euro long got triggered, long 4 contracts at 1.4002, stop at 1.3948
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New Limit order

1. Buy 500k AUD/CAD at .9910 with a stop at .985
 
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