Well, the market went my way and hit my target for 144 pips which was healthy. However, the market continues to fall and I’ve left another 70 pips on the table..

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I am finding trading quite difficult lately.. the techniques which I have been trading with have not been doing so well and as a result, my account has plummetted. I wrote around December/January time that my account had reached all time highs.. the market was really good with me and I made a killing.. however, the market has changed and what I was doing which worked before, doesn’t work any more… trading really is tough!

Also, it is hard to find the time to stalk and wait for these opportunities.. I work most of the days and when I come home, there is a limited time window for trading…

I still love the idea of being successful as a trader but as close as I got.. the further from where I would like to be is apparent with the recent losses… a trader needs to be flexible enough to be able to adapt to all conditions.. I am not quite there yet!

Anyway, this brings me onto the FXCM  Forex trading system..  I am currently running their 30 day free trial to see how it works and whether it could work for me.. it will trade the markets automatically buying/selling where needed.

There are 40 systems to test with and you can look at the performance and there are all sorts of criteria to select to find the trading system for you. I tried to find the one that had the lowest drawdowns with the highest profits… and I came across one called TrendEscape. You then select the trading system (or systems)… yes you can attach more than one system to your account and off you go.

With the demo, you start off with a balance of 100,000 USD. I applied the Forex Systems I wanted to use and left it to get on with it..

The system I selected opens 6 trades at any one go.. I’m not sure how to change this as it’s quite high.. when (and if) I open my real account, I wouldn’t only really want to trade 1 trade… not 6… I don’t have that sort of capital!

The first trade was a short of the GBPJPY at 131.03 (18th Feb 09).. this didn’t go well with a loss of -173 pips per lot… that’s a loss of 865 pips! Holy crap!

The next trade was on the 23rd Feb 09 with a short of the GBPJPY at 138.53.. these each closed at a loss but at -5 pips or so…

OUCH!

Anyway, today, I have 12 positions open… 6 are a short of the GBPJPY at 138.98 and a short of the GBPUSD at 1.42609.  The GBPJPY are roughly 80 pips up each and the GBPUSD is about 60 pips up.

The $100,000 USD demo account is currently at $98,862.46 from the closed trades but with about $900 in the bag so far for the open trades.. it’s not too far off…

I’ll just run with this for the full 30 days to see how it goes…

If you’re interested in having a look… go to http://www.fxcm.com/forex-system-selector.jsp

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My blog is all about making money and although the majority of the posts have been to do with trading the financial markets, I am also trying a lot of other things.

Once such avenue is through Clickbank the online seller of electronic products. The nice thing about Clickbank is that you do not need to have your own products, you can simply market other people’s products and take a cut on every sale that you make. Of course, you can have your own product too and sell through Clickbank or make it attractive for other people to sell it (and pay them a commission per sale).

There are many ways to make money via Clickbank and what I have been doing has been extremely simple. I am advertising through the Google Adwords program (these are the links which appear in the Google search engine) and putting the link to the Clickbank page of the product that I am selling.

This does mean that I have to pay money for advertising but the money that I make back is a lot higher. Currently, for every $10 I am putting into Google advertising, I am getting $30 back.. hence, $20 of profit.

Here is the picture of my cheque I received recently for $490.60!!

(click on picture for a larger one)

If you would like to set up your own Clickbank account, click here

If you would like to set up your Google Adwords account, click here

I’ll start to write a little series on how to sell through Clickbank and some of the little tricks that I have employed to get it to work for me!

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