9:15am  ~    Another late rise for me, I got down here into the kitchen at 8 o’clock and sorted out a cup of strong espresso while I turned on my MT4 platform to watch for trade signals with my trendFX collection of systems.

My 1st trade this morning was due to a promising signal I noticed on my GOLD chart – the ‘pattern’ started to develop around 8:30 and by 8:46am I was in a long trade with the instrument. Within 12 minutes I had reached 40 pips, so I decided to get out at that point as 1) I’m very happy with that level of earnings and 2) a friend is due round in 10 minutes to go out on a cycle ride. She’s not done this type of ‘keep-fit’ so we’re going off on a gentle 6 mile ride to get her used to it.  I will probably then go off on another ride afterwards as 6 miles in not long enough for me – I need to break out in a sweat otherwise I think it’s been a waste of time.

I will report back later – I’ve got a few jobs to do here in the cottage today after my cycle ride plus some shopping at my nearest big supermarket in Halesworth so I won’t be back in front of my charts until this evening.

9:30pm  ~     My “evening” system is partly based on certain occurrences that happen with the S&P500 at 5pm and today it behaved superbly and provided me with a nice ‘short’ trade, which I got out of just after 9pm with a +45 pip profit. While that trade was carrying on, I also spotted another short opportunity with my trendFX system, and that trade gave me an additional +34 pips, so all in all my evening session score came in at +79 pips plus this morning’s efforts has given me a daily earning of +119 pips.

Some friends from London have just arrived so we’re off to the Blue-Lighthouse now for some supper.

Daily Target Reached Today ?  YES (+119 pips)    I have traded this morning for an hour plus this evening