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Live Trades – May 14th & 16th, 2012

Here are my trades for this week, I only traded on Monday and Wednesday. Didn’t trade on Tuesday because I was launching the chart service trial (which I’ll post about shortly). Thursday, I was prepping to meet my economics professor, who hired me this summer to be his TA (177 hours). I’ll be posting my updated schedule to include the tutorials and office hours that I’ll be responsible for this summer. Friday was just boring I think, I didn’t see anything that I liked to trade. All in all, I managed to recover some of my losses from last week.

Summary:
Win ratio = 10/15 = 66.67%
P/L = +$82.08 = +71.64%

Note: For all the charts, not all the vertical lines for my trade entry may be visible because I drew them on the 1min chart but then 5min chart combines the lines into 1 candle stick. So just be aware of that, but the overall technical analysis is clearer on the 5min chart compared to the 1min chart.

USD/CAD 5min chart for both May 14th & 16th

GBP/USD 5min chart for May 14th

AUD/USD 5min chart for May 16th

Hopefully next week will be a good week again, so that I can recoup the losses from week 1 then start profiting again :)

Live Trades – May 8th – 11th, 2012

Hey guys,

Since Monday, I was pretty much way more conservative but still not doing that way. I started the week off with $250, then got down to $58.15 as my lowest point and currently am sitting at $114.57. Overall a bad week, the experimental trades on Monday pretty much messed up the account which is fine because it gave me insights for new strategies and possible points to take into account for the review as posted earlier this week. Having said that, now that the BOSE ordeal is done and dealt with, I can focus entirely on trades next week and/or work on the new streaming chart service (will be posted in the morning). In the mean time, go check out my thread on Binary Options Daily, if you’re interested in this service please leave a reply in the thread. I need to gauge the demand before moving forwards with developing the service. Anyways, onto the trades that I made for the remainder of this week:

May 8th, 2012 – EUR/USD 1min chart

May 9th, 2012 – GBP/USD 1min/5min chart

May 11th, 2012 – USD/CAD 1min/5min chart

Since I’m waking at 4am everyday now (including weekends). The FX Weekly Analysis should be coming out pretty fast tomorrow morning, afterwards I’ll post more details on the potential new upcoming streaming live charts service. Check back in 6-10 hours for next week’s FX Weekly Analysis. Cheers, Brian

B.O.S.E. will no longer be promoted!

Binary Options Signal Europe Review

Last week, I posted that I would try out and use BOSE signal service due to large viewer/fan requests. So, I signed up for their trial this week, May 7th till today May 11th for a total of 5 days. IF everything went smoothly and nothing was questionable then I would be happy to continue their service as I originally stated for another 3 months. But, I fear I might wipe my account if I continue for the whole 3 months. Trials are supposed to leave the customer with a good impression.

Let me give you an example, I subscribe to the local newspapers from time to time because they offer a month free trial or some low cost for weekday deliveries. If I don’t receive the paper each morning, then something’s wrong and I won’t be happy i.e., if one day is missing. This has happened in the past, I signed up for a month and a few days I got nothing, sometimes even a whole week nothing delivered. They would call me after the month is over and ask how the paper was or if I wanted to subscribe for a year. My reply: “You owe me a week’s worth of paper, if you can’t even deliver it during a trial, what makes you think I want to subscribe for a year!?”

Same shit applies here, I will post my charts below for each day of this week’s trial. I went into this experiment to test quality of service, I’m not worried about accuracy or win ratios. As a seasoned trader, I know there will be bad times in the markets, like this week I’m down but it’s ok, that’s just how the markets work. So, I’m not directly questioning their claimed accuracy, this post is to point out their flaws of signal delivery and validity of their signal results. Thus, based on these accusations, their claimed accuracy is being indirectly questioned.

PS: As the title implies, BOSE will no longer be promoted. The youtube video from the Lazy Trader series is gone and the banners on the site are all gone. Let’s get on with the chart examples.

Legend for all the charts:

  • These are all 1 minute charts
  • First vertical line = time I received the email
  • Second vertical line = time the binary option expired (note, they’re all on :29 because candles are opened on that minute and thus close at :30)
  • Red horizontal line = closing price of candle at time of signal delivery
  • Blue horizontal line = target signal price (it’s blue for me, but might show up as purple for you?)
  • Black horizontal line = closing price of candle at time of expiry

Their signal instructions are always stated as “AT or ABOVE/BELOW the Price” for an entry for Put/Call respectively. Thus, please pay attention to the blue and black lines since these are most important, if price never reaches the blue line this is considered “no entry”.

  • Check marks are for a match of chart and BOSE results of ITM.
  • X’s are for a match of chart and BOSE results of OTM.
  • Question marks are for the no entries, i.e., different results comparing chart and BOSE results.
  • “Me” is pretty obvious, that’s if the result/comment from my own entry.

Summary:

  • Checks: 4
  • X’s: 5
  • ?’s: 6

Again, I don’t give a shit about their results, what I care about is honesty and quality of service. Judging by the number of question marks above, that’s just bad service. From talking with other people who tried out their service, the problem lies with the “delay of the signal”. I understand from a seller’s point of view, they want to make their signals look good. I know tons of stocks newsletters that do this, rather than compare opening price and closing price, they compare today’s close to yesterday’s close despite there being gap up today. The same can be said about BOSE here and I understand why. However, doing this makes me question the validity of their results and hence, overall signal accuracy.

On a closing note, the trial was $7, my account balance is sitting at $517.25. So, my net is $10.25 although it should be more if I won more if I had entered the trades on Thursday. Oh well, so it’s not like I lost money or didn’t make as much. I don’t care much for the money, this whole post was made to expose their honesty/validity of the results.

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