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Well, I hit the reset button last month on Zen Trading. And no, I didn’t accidentally trip over the power cord or kick the power strip with my foot under the desk. I intentionally closed ALL my Zen Trades and started over. Why did I do that? Click here to continue reading January 2010 Zen Trading Results >> Well, my fancy ass Access database broke and it was just not worth the time to fix it, so I’m going to have to do this report manually. Zen Trading in December was not as good as in November. I made $106.92 on a beginning balance of $3,064.23, for a +3.4% gain on the [...] Here are my Zen trading results for the past month. Click here to see the November 2009 Report (PDF) Final result was a +10.46% gain.* Click here to continue reading November 2009 Trading Results >> Mid September through October 2009 was the testing period for Zen Trading. There were a couple of bugs that had to be worked out but it is now a feasible trading system. November is the first full fledged Zen trading month and here are my results up until the third week. I also had [...] Whew, a pretty good month. I didn’t make big money but I am geting more consistant. I’ll take that any day of the week. I was up $6.55 on a begining balance of $495.62 for a +1.3% gain on equity. I’m actually very close to getting back to my original deposit balance when I [...] June was a positive month. Unfortunately, it was because of one trade that was a mistake. To me that is unacceptable because it wasn’t really because of my skill. I am feeling more comfortable reading price levels and have been studying Chris Lori’s Pro Traders Club more intently as of late. Here are my [...] Although I didn’t have as many trades as I need to trade for a living, I had a pretty good month. Here are the May results: http://www.tradingheroes.com/losing-trades/05062009-gbpjpy-trade (-93 pips) http://www.tradingheroes.com/winning-trades/05182009-gbpjpy-trade (+108 pips) http://www.tradingheroes.com/winning-trades/05-20-2009-gbpjpy-trade (+285 pips) http://www.tradingheroes.com/winning-trades/05292009-gbpjpy-trade (+146 pips) Grand Total: +446 pips up this month, which equaled a total of +1.2%. It was the [...] Here are the trades for April: http://www.tradingheroes.com/losing-trades/04082009-usdchf-trade-2 (-72 pips) http://www.tradingheroes.com/losing-trades/04132009-gbpjpy-trade (-216 pips) http://www.tradingheroes.com/losing-trades/04282009-gbpjpy-trade-2 (-380 pips) Grand total: -668 pips Not a good month and not nearly enough trades. I need to figure out a way to do more trades (and improve the winning percentage of course). Here are the trades for March: http://www.tradingheroes.com/winning-trades/03032009-eurchf-trade (+80 pips) http://www.tradingheroes.com/losing-trades/03132009-usdcad-trade (-171 pips) http://www.tradingheroes.com/losing-trades/02262009-usdjpy-trade (-52 pips) http://www.tradingheroes.com/winning-trades/second-time-is-the-charm (+123 pips) Grand total: -20 pips Although it was a negative month pip wise, I still was positive +0.1% on total equity in the account. One glaring thing about this month is the number of trades. 4 trades [...] Here are the trades for this month: http://www.tradingheroes.com/losing-trades/232009-cadjpy-trade (-25 pips) http://www.tradingheroes.com/winning-trades/2102009-audcad-trade (+142 pips) http://www.tradingheroes.com/losing-trades/02112009-eurcad-trade (-182 pips) http://www.tradingheroes.com/winning-trades/02112009-gbpjpy-trade (+37 pips) http://www.tradingheroes.com/winning-trades/02172009-usdjpy-trade (+66 pips) http://www.tradingheroes.com/winning-trades/02172009-eurcad-trade (+95 pips) http://www.tradingheroes.com/losing-trades/02162009-gbpusd-trade (-234 pips) http://www.tradingheroes.com/losing-trades/02232009-audjpy-trade (-160 pips) Grand total: -261 pips Of course, all of the lot sizes were not the same but the net negative result is still a [...] |
 
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