Quite some pips

Dear Readers,

Today was a good day. My signal provider Forex Cruise Control made quite some pips in 2 trades. One with 7 and the other with 18 pips.

As for the slippage - if you believe it or not - I had positive slippage today. What is positive slippage? FCC closed the trade with 15 pips while mine closed with 18. That is some good news to me and I hope it will repeat soon :)
So far I can say that it was worth it to change back to his first account Forex Cruise Control. Let's see how the slippage goes on from here.
I'll keep you posted!

New week new luck

Hey fellows,

Sorry for not writing a new post for the last few days. I was quite busy with life and only occasionally had the chance to check my Zulutrade Account.
However what I noticed is the huge slippage that occured with the trades. Even though I chose Forex Cruise Control AAAFX in order to reduce the slippage - as my broker is AAAFX, too, it went up to 10 pips difference in the negative. I sent a support ticket to my broker and they answered, that if the slippage is due to the Zulutrade platform, they will refund it. Sadly usually the slippage occurs naturally and therefore not refundable.

Long story short message: I changed my provider to the normal, original provider account Forex Cruise Control  to see how it goes from here.

Also here attached see the trades from the past days:

Friday 13th

Hello everyone,

First of all please excuse my abstinence yesterday. I was quite busy and did not find the time to write some lines. Therefore today I'll make everything up.
First of all, my signal provider did quite a few trades today and yesterday. Some red, some green, overall in the green. Take a look:

 

Looking at the summary my balance counts -56 pips overall.

However I noticed that there were some significant differences between my and the signal provier's trades. Also called slippage.. Some trades were about 10 pips different from the ones stated in his account. If I sum the slippage up it would aproximately sum up to 50 pips. Thats about what my balance could use to get to break even.

So I contacted the Zulutrade support team, which advised me to fill in a request form. They will look into this issue and reimburse the slippage occured within the next 30 days.

I filled the form, sent it and will keep ya posted on this!

Have a nice weekend!

Hello friends,

I wished I could report you good news today. However my signal provider left a loss in my account which is not that unsignificant. When I checked my balance around local noon time I had 3 open positions which altogether were running at around -250. He finally managed to get out at a total of -70 pips.
This means my account is at -82 pips now.

However I am still faithful that Forex Cruise Control knows what he is doing and as we all know: No trader can only win.

As I am writing this blog post there is one open position in my account which he opened a few hours earlier. It is currently pending at around 0 pips. Let's assume the best and finish this day with a gain!

2 Trades - 10 Pips

Even though we had NFP last Friday and Easter Monday, Tuesday this week ended positive.
My signal provider Forex Cruise Control AAAFX opened 2 trades which finally resultet in a total of 10 pips.

 

As you can see I am still at -12 pips in my overall performances. If FCC continues like this we can polish this up and end the week with a positive balance.

Public Holiday and NFP

Hello fellow traders,
Today there was no trade in my Zulutrade portfolio due to Easter Monday and Non-farm Payroll.
NFP was released last Friday and usually the consequences can be seen until Monday after the weekend. This time we were affected by the Easter Holidays aswell, which count for almost every western country.
My signal provider Forex Cruise Control AAAFX decided to make no trades in order to stay on the safe side. It was a very low volume day and therefore indicators are usually not reliable or even prone to give false results.
In this case I am very happy that my Signal Provider made the decision not to trade, as capital preservation is the N1 rule in this business.

2nd Day

Hello Friends,

Today, the second day of my Zulutrade adventure closed with a small loss. My signal provider Forex Cruise Control - AAAFX closed 3 trades which resultet in a total minus of 49pips for me. Therefore my account is 22 pips down for the week.
As I only traded 2 days of this week the results are not important at all to me and I am looking forward to next week.