08:00am  ~  I’ve some work to do here in the study this morning before a bike ride after lunch and then upto the cottage in Suffolk later this afternoon. I’ll sit and watch some charts this morning as well while I’m here.

08:55am  ~ Well, I’m in the market with one trade at the moment although there looks like another opportunity coming up on my Gold chart as well. The trade I took earlier was on the S&P500 and is advancing slowly northwards as I write.

10:05am  ~  I’ve been having a busy time so far this morning – the S&P500 trade is still live (and just in profit) and I did take a second trade on my Gold chart as well.  In addition I had a Brent Oil ‘long’ trade which is already over, I managed a quick 30 pips with that one.  I will report back later with news of these other two remaining trades,  I’ll close them off whatever before lunchtime as I have a bike ride planned plus 3 Skype calls with budding traders.

18:10pm  ~  I’ve just got up here to the cottage in Southwold and I’m going to relax here in the kitchen with a cold lager while I watch my S&P chart for any set-ups on my “Trade With A Day Job” beginners system. My trades earlier in the day turned out ok, the Gold position gave me an 18 pip profit in the end and the S&P500 did slightly better at +27 pips.

19:50pm  ~ Well, that’s me done for the evening as far as trading is concerned. I had two trades on the S&P500, the first at 6:25pm which was stopped out fairly quickly with a small loss of 18 pips, and my second came up shortly after that and ended up giving me 42 pips when I came out a few minutes ago. My evening total came up at +24 pips and the morning trading’s profit was +75 pips.

Daily Target Reached ?  YES (+99 pips)    I traded for most of the morning plus nearly two hours this evening