As it’s the last day of the month I’ve been totting-up my results for November. I couldn’t really say that I trade completely full-time as there are quite a few days where I am not in front of a laptop due to holidays/day’s out/hobbies etc. but out of the 12 days where I did trade, [...]

09:55am (CET)  ~  No trading for me again today – there will still be low volume in the markets I usually concentrate on, and the S&P500 is only open for a few hours today so that traders can adjust their positions ahead of Monday’s trading session which sees the release of PMI manufacturing data for [...]

09:20am (CET)  ~  There will be no trading for me today as the U.S. markets are closed for their Thanksgiving holiday so there will be a distinct lack of volume on the S&P futures, one of my favourite instruments to trade. There is only limited opening of the U.S. stock exchange tomorrow so I’ll not [...]

I have been asked a few times recently about my “Daily Trade Target” so I thought I would include a short explanation here today. My daily target has been 20 pips for as long as I can remember (certainly back to the 1990′s) and traders who have been in the markets for any length of [...]

09:25am (CET)  ~  I was up quite early this morning – and have already had a cycle ride down into Calpe and back together with 20 lengths of the pool to finish my exercise session.  I have a few meetings here during the day and there is talk of some clay-pigeon shooting at a friends [...]

09:55am (CET)  ~  A bit of a late start for me this morning, last night’s party did not finish until 4am this morning, but after a cycle ride out in a few minutes, I’m going to be in the study doing some emailing and chart watching for the rest of the morning. The main indices [...]

Can you answer ‘Yes’ to any of these questions ? Have you tried in the past to master trading ? Are you learning to trade with a system that’s just not getting the results you had hoped for ? Do you find it difficult to fit learning to trade around your day job ? Is [...]

11:40am (CET)  ~  We have just arrived back home from our weekend away up in Barcelona and before lunch I am off out on a cycle ride with a neighbour.  I am then having a relaxing afternoon catching up on jobs around the house and taking a friend to Alicante airport – then we are [...]

08:25am CET  (7:25 UK time)  ~ No trading for me today – as it’s going to be another sunny day there are a few of us who are going down to the Embalse de la Pedrera lake near Torrevieja this morning, about 45 minutes drive from here. We’re doing sailing and Quad biking and a bit [...]

08:25am (CET)  ~  I’ve just had a phone call from a neighbour to say we’re off on a cycle ride at 9am, so I had better get up !  After that I’ll be back here for the morning doing some emails and Skype calls plus some chart watching. The markets last night reacted strongly to [...]