9th January

Hello John

I’m sitting in my lounge in PA and its snowing. The suns out and it’s so pretty. If I dare venture out I’ll be met with an inch of ice at my front door ready to turn my steps into a kiddy slide. This gives house bound a whole new meaning.

Despite my loss today I’m actually feeling ok. Leigh is flying from Delhi to Newark and hopefully will simmer down before he lands. I am getting used to loosing and not letting it keep me from sleeping. Generally speaking my losses are very low now. Leigh was having kittens while I was in the trade but you know whereas before when in a loosing trade I’d have a cardio workout, now I seem to chill and wait for an exit. I have lost the fear of trading. We were talking on Skype and when I clicked buy while watching the charts. He said ‘what have you just done?’ I couldn’t very well lie as he heard the tell tale dings of the platform. Why to these darn things make a noise when you enter them? I need to go into the works and see if I can disable the sounds. They should let us suffer in silence without having to get a bleating down the phone line from whoever you are talking to telling you how clever you were to enter a daft trade especially as I had just told him I wasn’t going to enter this trade yet but wanting to wait for the right entry. The lecture was worse than the trade.

I walked away from the trading even though there were some good opportunities to make it or at least some of it back but I decided one mess a day is plenty and Monday is another trade. ooops I forgot I don’t trade on Mondays. Make that Tuesday.

A tip. When you create your layout on VT, export it to desktop and save it for ‘in case’. In case happened to me this week. Remember I told you I had lost my connection with VT at one point? Well during that loss of connection with it went the layout I was in at the time. I had to redo it. Iain was telling me this happens to him on occasion but this is the first time it’s happened to me. When I clicked on the currency pair all I got was a blank work space.

Have a good weekend. I’m back in the UK end of next week. - Desiree