Starting fresh this morning.  It’s a new day, a new week, a new month, and the start of a new quarter.

Things appear to be mostly in a range this morning.  I did take two trades on the USD PMI news, short the USDJPY and long they EURUSD.  They both started out slightly in my favor, and held that for a couple minutes before reversing and slowly edging back to stop me out just before the end of the candle.  Lost <10.2> on the USDJPY, and <8.0> on the EURUSD.

Have pending range orders set on virtually everything now, which is good because I’m mainly interested in exercising the (hopefully) last bug in the PTA. I’ve modified my strategy a little bit after studying the results of my experiments last week.  On Friday, I had range breakouts set on just about everything, and I think about 6 of them hit – and then pulled back inside the range. I observed that if I just increased my margin beyond the range slightly, I would avoid a lot of those false breakouts.  So I now have the MarginForPendingRangeOrders (how much the price has to move outside the range to trigger the order) to 4 pips.  We’ll see if that helps any.

Just hit a pending order for EURJPY breaking the range to the downside. It still pulled back and stopped out for <10.2>.  However, I see that, at the same time, the EURUSD went through the range, but didn’t penetrate enough to trigger the order before pulling back. So that saved me a CBIR or possible full stop.

The EUR dropped fairly sharply, and hit my pending order for range break on the EURUSD, and for re-entry on the EURJPY. Ultimately, both of them ended up getting stopped out – the EURJPY for <10.0>, and the EURUSD for <8.5>.

I think the day is pretty well done, though I’m keeping the charts open.  Currently, I have 6 trades, all losses, for <46.9> (-2.05%).

I’m going to go ahead and publish now, and I’ll update if I take any more trades.