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Yesterday I made an overdue switch of trading platforms from FX Engines to FXCM’s TradeStation II. If you’ve been following the last couple posts you already know the reasons: FX Engines has been down for several days (still is, in fact). As a result I missed three winning trades in a row, and would’ve missed another winner last night if I hadn’t made the switch to TradeStation.

Fortunately

As if to prove that nothing can ever go completely right in forex, I woke up today to find that my trading system made its seventh winning trade in a row - definitely a new record for real trade predictions, not just theoretical ones in my historical backtests. The problem was, I couldn’t make this trade, just as I couldn’t make the sixth winning trade last Friday (as I mentioned in my previous

If you’ve been following the blog much lately you’ll know that I currently get a lot fewer trading signals because of some strict filters I’ve set up. So when a trading signal does come along, it’s a big deal. And yesterday I got one to go short the EUR/USD for 22 pips, and in the ranging price action that followed it turns out it would have been a winning trade. Which would make it the 6th

There’s a lot less daily drama and a lot more sitting on the sidelines in my forex trading these days, and so far it’s a strategy that seems to be working. Because of the filters and meta-signals I’ve added to my trading system, it generates a lot fewer signals than it used to, since it’s switched off during periods when it’s likely to underperform. So in an average week I’ll now make 2 trades or