After being away on vacation with my wife for over a week, I started back into trading forex this morning. I watched what the market was doing, performed some technical analysis and decided that the AUD/USD pair had some potential selling short. Well, I was wrong, the market initially moved in my favour, but soon moved up. I moved my stop loss up a few times, hoping that my analysis would prove true. I eventually decided that, with the next dip, I would take a loss and get out. When the opportunity presented itself, I got out, -$510.00 and annoyed.

I took some time off, cycles 25km then ran 7km. I got back home, hydrated myself and took a look at the market again. AUD/USD had some action going on, so I decided to see if I could take advantage of it. WOW, did I ever. Five trades later and in what seemed like no time, I found myself up $850.00 on the day and grinning from ear to ear. I can't believe my eyes, +$850.00 turns out to be a +24.04% day.

On an additional bright note, I am now only $615 away from breaking even from my initial week of big losses.

Week 1
Trading Day	Mon, Jul 27, 09	Tue, Jul 28, 09	Wed, Jul 29, 09	Thu, Jul 30, 09	Fri, Jul 31, 09
Opening Balance	$4,989.92	$3,579.88	$3,084.12	$2,484.40	$2,393.36
2% Risk	$99.80	$71.60	$61.68	$49.69	$47.87
5% Increase	$498.99	$357.99	$308.41	$248.44	$239.34
Actual increase	-$1,410.04	-$495.76	-$599.72	-$91.04	-$10.79
Closing Balance	$3,579.88	$3,084.12	$2,484.40	$2,393.36	$2,382.57
Daily Increase	-28.26%	-13.85%	-19.45%	-3.66%	-0.45%
Total Increase	-28.26%	-38.19%	-50.21%	-52.04%	-52.25%
Week 2
Trading Day	Mon, Aug 3, 09	Tue, Aug 4, 09	Wed, Aug 5, 09	Thu, Aug 6, 09	Fri, Aug 7, 09
Opening Balance	$2,382.57	$2,737.50	$3,179.27
2% Risk	$47.65	$54.75	$63.59
5% Increase	$238.26	$273.75	$317.93
Actual increase	$354.93	$441.77	$356.00
Closing Balance	$2,737.50	$3,179.27	$3,535.27
Daily Increase	14.90%	16.14%	11.20%
Total Increase	-45.14%	-36.29%	-29.15%
Week 3
Trading Day	Mon, Aug 10, 09	Tue, Aug 11, 09	Wed, Aug 12, 09	Thu, Aug 13, 09	Fri, Aug 14, 09
Opening Balance
2% Risk
5% Increase
Actual increase
Closing Balance
Daily Increase
Total Increase
Week 4
Trading Day	Mon, Aug 17, 09	Tue, Aug 18, 09	Wed, Aug 19, 09	Thu, Aug 20, 09	Fri, Aug 21, 09
Opening Balance	$3,535.27
2% Risk	$70.71
5% Increase	$353.53
Actual increase	$850.00
Closing Balance	$4,385.27
Daily Increase	24.04%
Total Increase	-12.12%