Anyone who has met me will probably agree I’m quite an emotional person and sometimes trading can play with my emotions, actually it plays with my emotions nearly everyday! I’m finding the best way for me to control my calmness, anger etc is to simply walk away from a trade once it’s  running. I have [...]

August is regarded as the holiday month in trading and pretty much every other profession also. You’ll hear of traders talking of reduced volume and volatility can be low. I thought I’d do a little research and see how this August is shaping up in terms of daily range ( volatility) compared to previous months [...]

Mike’s work on the TUFXP research got me thinking about doing my own research on TUFXP. I literally have 15-20 spreadsheets with a whole host of settings and results. For the 5 minute chart which has been used by Cash-master since April and by myself since late April I have kept results of every trade [...]

A fairly new reader, Mike, emailed me yesterday with an interesting analysis of TUFXP. Below is his email and if you’d like his attachments, leave a comment and I’ll send them over. Thanks again, Mike. Hi John,   Not a lot happening at the moment in GU or EU so I thought I would write [...]

It was a pretty successful week without too many ups and downs which is good for my heart. I did have a couple of trades I had reservations about but still took them so I’m going to be trying hard over the next few weeks to ramp up the discipline side of my trading even [...]

I was looking forward to yesterday for a couple of reasons, one being it was the day my rebate for the month of July was due to be paid. In the month of July I traded 181 lots with an average of 9 lots per day which gave a return of just shy of $365 [...]