09:30am (CET)  ~     Happy Valentine’s Day to everyone  - and I hope all you guys out there have got tonight’s ‘activities’ planned and sorted out.   I’ve been here in the study for an hour or so, doing emails and Skype calls plus watching my MT4 charts for and trade set-ups.  It had [...]

8:15am (CET)  ~  I was up reasonably earlier considering that the card game last night went on until 2am – I shall probably have a nap after lunch though !   Opened up my charts 30 minutes ago with a view to have a few hours trading before I get the clay-trap out that I’ve [...]

11:05am (CET)  ~     Had quite a late night yesterday, so consequently I had a bit of a lie-in this morning, followed by a brisk cycle into Altea to get some  ’french’  bread for breakfast.  I have just sat down here in the study to watch my charts for a few hours while I reply [...]

10:25am (CET)  ~ One of the things I miss when I’m out here is a bit of Clay-Pigeon shooting, so I am off to Alzira to see a farmer who has a Electric Clay-Pigeon Trap for sale – it’s around 100kms north of here so I will be back later this afternoon,  in time hopefully [...]

Over the past four years the question I am asked more than any other is “Will I make the grade as a financial trader?” Well, everyone is different so you cannot generalise, but there are a few traits that I have noticed you will need if you want to make it as a trader, either [...]

21:10 (CET)  ~  I’ve been out all day – at the Pedrera Lake – and just got home 10 minutes ago.   A quick tot-up of my week’s trading (4 days worth) reveals  that my “evening” sessions have given me 85 pips and trading my two other systems during the day (mornings generally) gave a total [...]

9:05am (CET)  ~    Update on trading last night  -  I did not have any further trades after my last blog post at 8:45pm, so yesterday’s profit of 39 pips stays as it is.     This morning I’ve been watching my charts for the past 15 minutes and I have my eye on a [...]

8:30am (CET)  ~    I was up unusually early this morning, I couldn’t seem to get back to sleep after I was woken with an unusual noise at 6am, so I got up and watched a bit of Sky News and also switched my charts on 30 minutes ago.   There’s not much happening on [...]

9:10am (CET)  ~ An early start for me this morning, I am fed up with standing in hire car queues at airports over here, so I am off to the Mercedes dealer in Alicante to buy a car that I can keep in the garage over here.  I have a couple of Skype calls first [...]

9:35am (CET)  ~ The main business news on Sky this morning has been the details of our Chancellor’s speech regarding his proposals for ring-fencing the UK’s banking industry so they keep their retail banking away from the more risky investment banking   (or casino banking as the UK press like to call it in their [...]