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No Forex trading last night.  Things just did not look good.  The EUR/USD have moved down considerably during the day and we were trading near the low.  When I got on in the evening things were just rising from that low.  The candles were large and there was no clear range.  I set some weak barriers to see if things would even out.  They didn’t and my barriers were broken.  So, I walked away.  No point in forcing a trade when there are rough waters!  So, I will show you something from my man Tiger.  I know I have blogged about Tiger Woods before- both the video game and the man.  He just does such cool stuff that I can’t help but pass it on for you.  Check out this latest ad.  Here, he manages to get a square peg into a round hole!

As I mentioned earlier, I spent yesterday evening at my friends new apartment.  Our job: to wall mount his 46 inch Samsung LCD TV.  Don’t ask, of course it is 1080P!  That isn’t the point though.  Neither of us had ever done this before, so it definitely became a blog-worthy task!  Here are some of the photos of how we did this.  Obviously I am not going to show you absolutely every step.  And, most of our time was spent drinking beer and you should know how to do that by now!

Step 1:  Use something to help visualize the height you want this mounted at.  Oh, and get written permission from anyone you plan to have in a picture.  The cat didn’t approve so it’s identity has been hidden for legal purposes.

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Step 2:  Drill some holes in your nice walls.  This is Andrew doing some damage with the oldest drill I have ever seen.

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Step 3:  Have some brown guy point out every mistake you are making when trying to screw in the brackets.

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Step 4:  Drink a beer and admire your mounting brackets.  Oh, and leave the meat tenderizer in the shot so people know you don’t have a hammer.

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Step 5:  Write something funny in the drywall dust.  I went with Poo.  But, feel free to be creative!

I was fairly certain that I wouldn’t have had time to trade last night.  I got home, had to work out and then head downtown to help a buddy mount his LCD TV on the wall of his new apartment.  I have more on that story later!  With all that to do, I only had a window of about 10 minutes to check out the charts.  I went in and saw the EUR/USD had just started rising from a lower barrier.  The only thing that concerned me was that we were rising fairly close to the days high.  But, the Euro was moving up all day.  It felt fairly safe so I finally jumped in on a buy trade at 7:27pm.  I started to get my things together to leave when my trade hit for profit.  I was only in this one for just over a minute!  Now, that is definitely the quickest trade I have had with my “slow” evening strategy.  Oh well!  I sure as hell wont complain about a profit.

Trade Summary:

Buy EUR/USD - 1.4489
Close Trade - 1.4494
Pips = 5

It has been a while since I gave you a web comic. I went to XKCD for this one. I love this comic for two reasons. 1 - the graphics are amazing. 2 - what do you care…just enjoy the damn thing! This comic definitely speaks to me. It’s all about being in the “M’eh” generation!

Here we are.  The first trade of September.  Kids (and teachers) are all back to school.  I am back to work.  And if all else goes according to plan, I should be back on a normal trading schedule again.  I jumped on fairly early to watch the movement of the EUR/USD.  I saw a pretty normal setup and that made me happy.  When the currency is ranging nicely then I usually have an opportunity for a trade.  I avoided some weak early setups and finally bit at 7:28pm on a sell trade.  The currency shot up towards my upper barrier.  It actually scraped past it for a while, but it never looked like an actual breakout.  As things calmed down and the currency steadied under my barrier I got in.  I figured the upward momentum was done and things should correct.  Wow, was I right.  It dropped slowly and steadily.  My 5 pip profit target was hit at 7:43pm.  Things got interesting after that.  The EUR/USD dropped like a rock.  A rock that wanted to commit suicide and jumped off a fucking building.  OK, that was a little dramatic.  But it was definitely a movement that is very unusual for the evening hours.  I use 5 minute candles on my charts and the one candle was 30 pips long!  I was happy at my timing of the trade especially after seeing this.  If I jumped online after seeing that one candle I probably would have been scared out of trading.  But everything worked out well and I have my trade in the bag.  Here is the chart so you can see the action:

Trade Summary:

Sell EUR/USD - 1.4527
Close Trade - 1.4522
Pips = 5

This is an old video of my man Alex Trebek doing a plug. He seems to have some problems and throws out some curse words every once in a while. Most people, including yours truly, have been caught on camera doing much worse. I guess I was just shocked seeing it come from someone like Trebek. Check out the video below. Once you have watched it then answer this question: Who would win in a fight - Trebek or Bob Barker?

Ahhh, the first of September. Normally I would be trying to give you something relevant to the start of the school year for the kiddies. But my girlfriend is a teacher and we are going to pretend that today is just another summer holiday. So let’s talk about video games! I got the below video from WeGame. They have some pretty good stuff on that site. Anybody who played The Ocarina of Time (and that should be everyone) will know what this video is about. Link never freakin’ speaks! He only makes funny, elf-ninja like grunts when he moves around. How the hell does he communicate what he wants?! This video shows the struggles Link would probably face.

I recently posted about Ren & Stimpy. After that, I got to thinking about other cartoons that contributed to my sick sense of humor. I didn’t have to think too long before I started to remember Beavis & Butthead. These two idiots were brought to us by MTV. Most episodes was just about them being dumb-asses and making funny comments about music videos. This show shot to massive popularity - I am talking The Simpson’s level of popularity! They sold T-shirts, cd’s and even video games. They went global when they released a full length movie that did pretty well. Once you make it on David Letterman, then you know you truly have a success on your hands. Being cartoon characters didn’t stop these two from hanging with Letterman. Check it out:

I am not a fan of any type of extreme sport nonsense. I only watch those videos on YouTube to see the punks get hurt. Today, I saw a video that changed things. I have no idea what is so captivating about this. It is only 7 seconds long. It isn’t death defying. It isn’t stupid. But, it did make me watch it about 5 times before I even thought about posting it. Hell, if it was that good then I figured you would enjoy it!

Finally!!!  I made a trade last night.  Wow, it has been a long time since I last had a trade.  There were a couple of days where I was just too busy.  And, there were a couple of days where things didn’t feel right.  Yesterday felt absolutely perfect.  The EUR/USD was playing in a nice, consistent range throughout the evening.  I set up my upper and lower barriers and waited for the currency to approach them.  At 7:45pm there was a nice spike upwards towards my top barrier.  Now, I waited and did some confirmation on this.  Nobody wants to get into a sell trade during a large upward movement.  I did my checks and figured that this was just a little blip that was going to drop right back down.  I got into the sell trade and was rewarded pretty quickly.  I will have to check my records, but this might be the quickest I hit profit using my new and “slower” strategy.  My take profit target of 5 pips was hit after just 4 minutes!  Damn, that’s quick.  I am so proud of this one that I grabbed a screenshot for all to see.