I had rather a late night yesterday (out with friends at the local pub) and did not arrive home until after midnight. This resulted in me getting up rather later than planned – as I had wanted to have 2 or 3 hours in front of my screens before shooting off for the day. One of the guys I was out with was going to London to pick up a new car and I promised to go with him, but rising at 8am and leaving at 9:15am gave me no time to trade – so it’s just my “Evening” system today I think.

I got back home in time to start looking for trade signals with my “Trade With A Day Job” strategy at 4pm and moments later I was in my first (and only) trade of the evening. By 5:06pm I had shut the trade off with a +20 pips profit (my usual trade target)

Many years ago, I strived for a daily target of 50-70 pips as my only goal and focus was to build up my trading account, no matter how long I had to trade each day. This sometimes meant that I missed out on family life, and I realised 6 years ago this was foolish as a daily target of 20-25 pips still gives a wonderful monthly salary, and more importantly, is achievable in a few short hours. You then have most of the day to spend with family and friends and enjoy the fruits of your labour.