Initial place. I have been a long time lurker here, learning and borrowing* egies, theories and egies. I have to say that this site has undoubtedly been the best find for me accompanied by downloading and playing with Metatrader (hence accepting that there's something of significance in MS Windows.) If you haven't read it yet, loe The 5 Steps to becoming a trader posted by Diallist. It is very telling and can get you outside measures 1 and 2 more quickly. I would like to think I'm at Step 3 but I'm only going to take Step 2. I have been noodling around with Forex for approximately 2 decades largely unsuccessfully (7 years in the stock market with largely wins in the last 4 decades.) I have had my initial *aware * successes in forex using variants on MuddBuddha's Simple Forex System and variants on my understanding of Vegas' methodologies. I could use some decent ranging market perspectives to chew on. Right now I have little interest in brief timeframe trading - maybe when I could quit my day job and do whatever* fulltime. My preference would be to have the ability to get into a trade and sit on it for a day or longer - which can be my source of fruion in a ranging market.
Anyway, my aim with this journal would be to post my successes and failures. Possibly discuss trading styles and methods (I'm absolutely open to ideas.) Perhaps post a fun anecdote here and there. I'll probably post some of my transactions after the fact because it would be preferable to learn my trade has been good/bad after I'm out so my choice will not become contaminated midstream. Right now I'm mostly concerned with choosing good deals with the goal of break-even. I'll be concerned about optimizing exits after obtaining *BE* with solid entries for awhile. I really don't want to be concerned about how much money or how many pips I profit. That's part of what got me into trouble previously (greed.) The icing will be grabbing a major advantage. Win or loose, the speedy action in forex has matured my perspective in the stock market.
Anyone is welcome to post here with another thing: keep it polite, keep it honest and be considerate. I'll attempt to do the same. I have enough time and don't yet have the time management abilities to perform otherwise. Also, there's no such thing as on-topic or off-topic here.
That's all for now. Thank you, fantastic luck and have fun.
Manchild