Long & Wrong

A terrible start to December

Getting ill

Snow

Unable to find the time/energy to write anything here.

Back after Christmas though, I’ll even promise a chart or two.  Have a great break, I intend to.

I'd rather be trading eur/jpy.

If, like me, you got interested in trading because you love to get down and dirty with data then this is the kind of material you should be watching when your significant-other is away for the weekend.

In the UK, or via a UK proxy server, you can watch the whole show on iPlayer until 14th December.

As I wrote previously, I have been trying to condense a whole month’s worth of trading into 13 days.

I attempt this as the UK is suffering some unusually cold weather (and this is a country that grinds to a halt at the sight of the first snowflake).

The strange result of these two facts is that I am experiencing one of my worst ever draw-downs (11%) but easily found a simile for the unpleasant situation…  Like driving on ice, the harder you press the pedals, the worse the outcome.

Next week I am going back to the usual number of charts and the occasional, apparently beneficial, distraction. Lesson learned.

… it’s the number of trading days that is worrying me.  Due to an early start to the Christmas holiday, I have only (unlucky?) thirteen days in which to make (or lose) my total for December.

With this in mind I have decided to focus for those 13 days –  I am removing all distractions (you know who you are), working longer hours and throwing in a couple of additional markets (including GBP/JPY because, well, you only live once).

To physically prepare for this I have reached the level of fitness of one of my nation’s greatest sporting heroes but attaining the correct mental state will require a short break from blogging.

Back soon, most probably poorer.