So how bout that march 3 - Page 3

chrisandrews12 · #21 03-04-2009, 09:00 AM

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Originally Posted by chrisandrews12

here are the trades from last night

9722100 2009.03.03 22:10 buy 0.13 eurgbp 0.89365 0.87780 0.89950 2009.03.03 22:38 0.89428 0.00 0.00 0.00 8.19
9724292 2009.03.03 22:38 buy 0.13 eurchf 1.47686 1.46120 1.48090 2009.03.04 00:16 1.47681 0.00 0.00 0.30 -0.39
9726329 2009.03.03 23:12 buy 0.12 eurgbp 0.89358 0.87680 0.89880 2009.03.04 00:28 0.89388 0.00 0.00 0.04 3.60
9726316 2009.03.03 23:12 buy 0.12 eurgbp 0.89361 0.87680 0.89880 2009.03.04 00:28 0.89390 0.00 0.00 0.04 3.48
9730606 2009.03.04 00:49 buy 0.13 eurgbp 0.89333 0.87720 0.89810 2009.03.04 08:01 0.89302 0.00 0.00 0.00 -4.03
9730613 2009.03.04 00:49 buy 0.13 eurgbp 0.89346 0.87770 0.89850 2009.03.04 08:01 0.89313 0.00 0.00 0.00 -4.29
9734138 2009.03.04 01:33 buy 0.12 eurchf 1.47649 1.46050 1.48090 2009.03.04 06:28 1.47609 0.00 0.00 0.00 -2.89
0.00 0.00 0.38 3.67

As you can see twice I had the eurgbp open and close 2 trades at the same time. I have never had this happen before. I have checked the journals etc for errors, but all seems to be ok. I have not changed any settings.

Also the last trade, eurchf buy, was opened after I disabled live trading.

This is concerning.

Did anyone else have 2 trades open at once.

Any advice would be really appreciated

Thanks

Chris

After further investigation, I can confirm that it was all my fault!

I am on Alpari Uk via vps and I had 2 sessions open!!

The first part of the night I was on my pc and then moved rooms to log in via my laptop, hence the double session.

Here is how to check a double session just in case you think it might be happening to you

You can check for a double session when you login. right-click on the task bar at the bottom, between the start button and the clock. select 'task manager' and then 'users' tab.

If you find two users, you can right-click on one and select "log off".

Lastly thank you to the guys that were trying to help me last night

A lesson learnt - thankfully at not too much cost!!

liggy002 · #22 03-04-2009, 03:08 PM

I still trade through the news but I'll lower my risk- as you have said, I have been noticing that the news reports do not often coincide with the FAP trading times. Forexfactory.com is an excellent source for news.

nelson · #23 03-04-2009, 05:25 PM

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Originally Posted by nelson

This FAPT session gave me two trades. One eurchf for +5 pips and the other, well... It's the eurgbp buy which is still open, floating around at -50-70 pips.

I've learnt this lesson before, however I obviously needed to repeat it some... :/

I took the FAPT off the trade and set it up myself for a profit of apr 5 pips late during wednesday. Thus I got out w/o cost... I could have got quite some more, but didn't want to take the risk of another loss and didn't want to babysit the trade either.