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 [...]

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 [...]

With August under way it seems quite a few traders are taking the traditional summer break. I remember last year wondering whether or not to trade as I’d heard so many rumours/stories about August being a difficult month to trade due to lack of liquidity and volatile price movement. TUFXP actually didn’t do very well [...]

Yesterday was a good reminder that not everyday can be a winning day and that planning for the worst is sometimes the best option. Whenever I enter a trade I always enter the details in to my spreadsheet and enter it as a loss, regardless if the trade is looking good or not. I hate [...]