Trader From Amsterdam

Great youtube channel that I'm following lately is Trader From Amsterdam. You can check few of his latest videos below. He is showing his live trades. His style is scalping mostly DAX and his accuracy is so high that I didn't know it's possible. As he says: "No Live room, No trade calls here and I have no trading system for sale. Just posting my daily live trades. Hope one get inspired."

Youtube

My new trading related hobby is watching live trading videos and any other that are interesting. There is not much stuff on youtube that isn't some kind of selling and that's usually boring. So it's a pleasure when I find something good.

First there is blogger from The Trading Quest with his trading recaps:

And the other channel worth of mention is old one without new updates. It follows trade management of some broker. From my perspective very interesting stuff. The guy is also funny to listen because of his occasional excitement and self talk. Also the sounds that he do while he thinks. You got to check it out.

Black Wednesday (BBC 1997)

Badass

I don't have badass trading strategy or badasss trading results, at least I have badass trading desk setup. Business Insider says so, lol.

Great vblog

I'm watching lately this guy and wanted to share because I really like his videos. There are some longer ones also where he in detail explains his thought process. He's not some guru that is selling service but pure trader.



https://www.youtube.com/user/jmaxchase/videos

Google reader replacements

Dreaded day is around the corner. Google will abandon their don't be evil motto and kill reader. In last three months looking for replacement I found three that does job sufficiently. I don't know which will prevail because I'm still using google reader.

The Old Reader is what google reader was few years ago. It's probably my first choice for now but it's too soon to know.

Aol Reader is newcomer and surprise because it wasn't anticipated like Digg reader was (which I didn't see yet). It looks like polished product in early stage.

Netvibes is more than a reader. It's dashboard kind of platform, but can easily be configured just to use as a reader.

April 2013.

April 03.






April 9.




April 11.

-8 pips





April 12.



April 26.



April 29.





April 30.

Rest of March

March 21.










March 28.

+9 pips
- news trade, spread up to 15 pips
- half size

+18 pips
- all half size trades
- initial news spike in gbp/usd wasn't convincing so I exit it quickly

+4
+11
-I'm not really proud of my averaging in eurjpy, risking much for no good reason. If I don't know where to put stop or don't want to accept that it's time for stop it's better not to trade that trade
- I'm far better in those nice scalping situation when stop or gain is quick and definite

Petition to save Google Reader

If you use this product as much as I do I'm sure you will want to sign it. This petition right now has more then 100,000 signatures. It doesn't mean that it will make Google reverse it's decision of shutting down reader but if I ever wanted to express my opinion and vote it's now for this.

Change.org

+5 pips
- various sizes
- news trade with limit orders didn't work (no spike) so I canceled them

+3 pips

+9 pips
- this news trading turns out to be quite nice sport
- third of usual size because on previous reports there were whipsaws, in previous few occasions move wasn't so big and lasted really only as initial spike that's why I closed it immediately
- good news after bad news in which Google announced shut down of Google reader

+6 pips
- not so good not knowing where my actual stop is, wan't prepared for this type of market action, I expected something easier
- half size trades

+15 pips

- I don't know why I didn't use before those bracket limit orders before the news if execution on Oanda is so good
- half size trades
- again problem with second add on trade, I just lowered my overall profit, move concentration away from first trade and made an exit at worst possible time
- third trade ok
- last two trades maybe holding on one of them longer

March

1.
+26 pips
- this is market suitable for scalping

4.
+11 pips
- I'm irritated with turning profitable trades in to stop losses

5.
-32 pips
- first loss, then recovery, then some stupid trades, after I recovered half and it wasn't good enough so in the end I made bigger loss

6.
-10 pips

7.
+15 pips
- it's important to learn to have a positive day and keep it

8.
+16 pips
- NFP scalping
- slow exit on second trade
- third and fourth with not enough courage to hold because of need to cover previous losses

February

22.

-23 pips
- tilt or whatever 15 trades

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26.

-8 pips

January

10.

 +20 pips

14.

-52 pips

17.

-15 pips

- problems on start with add on position, if there is only one it would be much easier to stay objective
- later overtrading not knowing how to end a day on good note while profitable