I thought it might be an idea to get back to the point of this blog instead of bleating on too much about being tired. So here are some charts that I put together for the VSA Forum during the week.

Annotated on Thursday speaking about Wednesday's action;

EUR/USD 1hr

EUR/USD 15min

Annotated at the live edge on Thursday.

EUR/USD 15min

Annotated Friday morning after Thursday's action. Down she went. 

EUR/USD 15min

EUR/USD 5min

So what do all these charts mean? Well, it means I'm well able to read a chart. In the case of the live edge chart on Thursday i'm able to do it in real time.

I still didn't open a position though.

Or lack there of.

As I mentioned on here a couple of times, i've moved into my own apartment and it took a while for the broadband to be connected. It appears this time without connectivity was very detrimental.

I'm completely out of sync at the moment. I'm going to bed too late and getting up too late as well. If I do manage to get to bed for a reasonable time it's always with my laptop and two hours later i'm still sitting there. My alarm goes off each morning and I just don't want to get up. It's too much effort.

I'm always tired. But i'm fully aware that the above statement is contributing whole heartedly to this.

I woke up with a sore throat this morning, it feels like the start of another cold. I've already had one recently enough and it's rare for me to get another one in such a short space of time. So i'm run down as well.

I love living on my own, it suits me down to the ground and provides a perfect environment with which to pursue my trading. I recently broke up with my girlfriend so this has contributed to a lot of extra space as well. I've had a lot of time to think lately. Maybe too much time. Over thinking and over analysing has always been a part of who I am. I think the extra space is only perpetuating that fact.

I've made plenty of sweeping statements and had a few epiphanies whilst contributing to this blog over the past few years, a lot of which never really came to fruition. Things like reading certain books, getting to the gym again, etc etc. I'm not going to do that today, but I will take note of the fact that I need to get myself in order.

I can't remember the last time I took a trade. I need to figure what i'm doing with it all, where I want to be by the end of year and building towards the next phase. 1st of November tomorrow so I have just under two months to get a bit more focus into what i'm doing here.

Finally got my broadband connection in the new apartment on Friday. In the mean time I upgraded my computer to Windows 7, which i'm quite happy with so far. Once I had the connection I spent my free time over the weekend getting everything downloaded and got my charts up to date as well.

 Not the best picture in the world..

It was great to have access again this morning. Didn't take any trades though. I spent the majority of the day looking into the first three chapters of Wide Range Bar analysis that's available from The Strategy Lab. I've been introduced to it through the VSA Forum and have decided to start looking into it to see if it's the missing piece. From what i've read so far i'm already sure that it will soon be incorporated into my strategy.

That's it for now, just a quick update to let people know i'm still alive.

I'll get back to annotating charts and putting them up soon enough.

Cheers,

Liam

Haven't done much trading in the past week. Here's why!

Trading Set Up....

Should have all of this moved into the new apartment by the end of today / tomorrow. Just need to wait for the broadband to be connected now.

I'll hopefully be back posting next week,

Cheers,

Liam

A direct copy from a post I made on the VSA forum i'm part of, thought i'd post it here as well.

I call this post Welcome to October.

Basically, the penny has finally dropped.

I'll get my excuses out of the way with first, for those of you that have been reading, you know i'm moving house. So i've been busy.

I thought I was seeing weakness each day since the start of the month, of course we can see today that this wasn't the case.

EUR/USD 1hr

I have three green 1hr zones highlighted on the chart above. The first one for obvious reasons as it's a massive wide spread and volume, i've spoken about this zone before. Since we came into this zone around the 24th of September we've tried to push out on four occasions, the 24th, 25th, 28th and 2nd Oct. Highlighted in the first yellow box.

In the mean time we had printed another high volume zone which initially served as weakness to push us to the low. Once we were above the 50% there was no looking back. This is the underlying strength which has eventually propelled us north, once all that supply was dried up at the zone high (1st yellow box). We have several bounces along the 50% of this 28th September zone and I failed to notice these building up over the last few days.

The middle/top zone is to highlight how today's high volume was a result of pushing out of the the previous zone and into this area. We can see now that this was absorbed. At the time I was thinking weakness, I even had a short order set which (fortunately) didn't trigger. I know I shouldn't dwell but it's annoying I missed this over the past week or so.

I've been posting more and more about higher (not 5 and 15min) time frames lately. I'm beginning to think I really need to pay more attention to them.

This post brought to you by Captain Hindsight.