A Jamaican Trading with USD$10.

Today isn’t a trading day being Friday. If you checked gold however, it is hurtful how far it went. Lots of pips missed if you look at it that way. Next week is another week though.

Since it’s MT4 you can’t see the entries or trade levels like you would on MT5. But I did have buys.

Anyways. Let’s talk about the available options here. Digicel and FLOW.

I’ll be honest. I don’t like either one. The day Starlink becomes available with mobile data, that’s it. I may keep a number for calls, but nothing else. That’s also why I’ve stopped trading from the phone really. Even if I can connect to my laptop or VPS remotely to get a better look at the charts, there are issues with data connectivity.

My take is simple. FLOW does better for calling plans, while Digicel is better for data plans.

FLOW plans include unlimited calling. Digicel has 2,500 and 3,500 minutes on their 28 day and 30 day plans respectively.

If data is what you need – Digicel is better and faster. If speed and reliable data isn’t your thing – just having some connectivity – then FLOW will work fine.

If you make lots of calls and that’s more important, then FLOW is the better choice.

If you drive a lot though, then it doesn’t matter much for calls. Both networks drop calls while driving, but Digicel does better. FLOW gives better coverage in rural areas for calls, and may actually give some data access.

Since data is needed for trading – whether from the phone or hotspot to laptop – I’ve switched to Digicel. In the past I needed calls more – but data is the more valuable resource these days for me.

What’s your experience like? Are your findings the same?

Original position was added to on the retrace to the MA. Price went further down and that’s when I zoomed out and drew the trend lines – which I really should have done before. Price went down to the zone and then bounced – I entered close to the lower trend line since price was in a wedge. All positions were given the same TP and all hit – putting me ahead by 9%.

*EDIT*

And while ahead – I went back in and didn’t follow my own rules. Did everything late and also took a trade again from my phone without watching things properly.

The result? I’m behind by a bit, but still overall ahead.

Account is now at $40.74.

Next week is another week.

I won’t be touching this again – as I should have – and will get back to it next week. Hope you were more disciplined than me this week.

Come next week I’ll see if I can stick to my own rules more closely.

Have a great rest of the week and weekend everyone!

It’s a little difficult with a day job to get trading done. Especially one that keeps you on the road a lot. I did say I wouldn’t trade when on the road – but I did that today. Fortunately – it worked out. But let’s look at each day.

Yesterday – 2025-11-25 – I took 3 positions. First was taken as I figured the setup was there – conditions were met – and I didn’t expect the full retrace to the MA. It did – so I entered again twice. This resulted in +$8.62 which pushed the account forward to $33.66 – 27% profit on that account size.

Today though – I took one trade in the evening for a 6% profit before getting out. This pushed the account up to $35.72 and I figured I’d just take that and be done.

While on the road today though – I couldn’t help myself. Checked the charts on the phone and saw what I figured was a good setup. Bear in mind that on the phone I have no SR zones, no QT zones and no Heikin Ashi candles.

I thought I’d take a sell position back to the MA – which was against the overall trend. The bad positions were hedged to get rid of the bad ones – then added to the winning position to get overall ahead. I got back in after doing some better analysis.

Original position taken and added to on the retrace to the MA. The two added positions at the end were taken to square the account up to $40.10.

Tomorrow is another day – but I believe the markets may close at midday. I may take additional positions tonight, but with the amount made for the week so far – I may also leave things alone.

A position was taken – not the best entry – but let’s see if I can get 10-20 pips out of this. An update will be posted in the morning.

I apologize for the delays. Lots of stuff going on. The update though – the account does support BTC – but the pair has a prefix and suffix – #BTCUSDr – so it was possible to take some trades on the weekend.

Let’s look at the entries taken. Again – some were appropriate while others were a bit risky.

Below are the trades taken yesterday.

And next are the trades taken tonight.

Patience would have been better to get good entries – but sometimes I’m a bit impatient.

Overall – it was in an up trend and the entries were not horrible – but could have been better if I waited. Had the account been larger I could have held it to the zone above. Still – tomorrow is another day.

Keep at it and review both your success and mistakes. Keep safe all.

No trading today as I said, but putting a reminder about the indicators I use.

https://u.pcloud.link/publink/show?code=kZu52aVZFwIESrKm14fwUysjcesp58VU2fRX

The ones for MT4 work better than the ones for MT5. It still gives a good base or starting point for what you may need. It should allow you to visualize the charts the same way I do. It also makes it easier for me to provide analysis if you use a similar chart.

Simply download – extract – copy the contents to your relevant MT4 or MT5 data folder. Don’t have to overwrite what’s there already.

Let’s see what next week brings. Have a great weekend all!

Since the last post – I managed to make a bit more and bring the account up to $13 flat around 8PM last night. Let’s see what happens going forward.

Never mind the other details. Focus on the current date.

Above was taken from last night. As you know – or may have found out – trading records from session change as the next day. This means that between 4PM and 6PM on 2025-11-19 it’s recorded as 2025-11-20. So I took trades last night (around 8PM) and then again this morning between 7AM and 7:11AM.

The broker time is about 7 hours ahead of us in Jamaica – so you can do the math that way.

Price continued up and I had exited early. The account is small – can’t handle any drawdown. But the original entry was not bad. Again – I took it from my phone, but only after remotely connecting to my laptop/VPS and looking at the chart. It’s still better to view the chart on a bigger screen and switch around to get your multi-timeframe analysis, but it did help. I really should have held it to the zone, but still managed to grab 64 pips in total for the day. A larger lot size was used on one of the positions (accidentally) so the account is now up to $19.52.

As it’s Thursday and I’ve hit my targets, I’m done for the week. Even though I could take something in the course of the day or in the evening – I don’t want to. Whether by the accidental trade or not, that’s more than 50% profit without the accidental larger lot size and almost 100% profit with the accidental larger lot size. There’s no need for me to do anything more – but I did go back in to “round up” the number.

So now that I’m back at $20 – which is where I blew it last – let’s get back to $100+ and move forward. Won’t be making some of the mistakes I did previously with the copier.

Next week will have other opportunities. Let’s see how it goes. Have a good rest of the week and a great weekend.

If I didn’t say it before – sincerely hope you were not too badly affected by Hurricane Melissa.

Above is the larger account which was able to handle the drawdown and progress. Below is the smaller account which could not handle the drawdown. Strangely – it’s showing more trades than the big one. Weird.

I may wait a bit more for price to get closer to the OTE before entry.

I almost had to top-up the account again from the larger one – but managed to recover.

The account is now at $9.90. Let’s see if I can SLOWLY get things together and grow it once more.

Doesn’t mean you should. I got a hard lesson on that today due to a lot of factors.

Today I was on the road driving. I took a buy which immediately went against me. Rules were there. It was above – etc – etc – but I didn’t see the zone that it had entered. I was trading from my phone.

I attempted to hedge the position with a sell – then took another buy when I realized it was going against me – then closed the two buys in profit and waited note the moves that then took place. I was actually stopped out due to margin call.

By the time I realized things were not going my way – I couldn’t open anything else. Not enough money. But note the way the trades went thereafter. The two buys closed in profit and the sell I opened – couldn’t manage.

I added back cash to the account ($10 top-up) and made an attempt to do something else. That didn’t work out either. I had a weird thing take place where I closed the position in profit – by a little – but copying to the larger account I have – that closed in loss. Which is weird.

Now – I had problems with data while driving. I also had problems with data when not driving. The networks seemed to be giving some issues today and my Starlink was sent on the road with persons for relief purposes – so I have no stable internet.

What this says for me is – don’t trade from the phone. Just because I can’t doesn’t mean I should. I don’t know if I should say I made a bad call – the positions are there and the directions are right. But the account is just too small to handle the drawdown before moving in the right direction. I’ll have to be FAR more careful – and the only way to do that is to trade from my desktop or laptop ONLY for now. When the account grows enough that I can handle some amount of drawdown – then I can leave some stuff running.

Just because you can trade from your phone – do analysis – do everything – doesn’t mean you should. Some indicators, multi-timeframe view, or other items that would help make better decisions may not be available.

I’m not 100% sure about persons that use TradingView – the platform seems to allow you to see the same things on the mobile as when you’re on the desktop/laptop. My issue is the fact that you have to pay quite a bit to get those functions/features. The free version of TradingView only allows 2 or 3 indicators – which is not enough for me. I need a bit more to see all the zones and levels on my chart. If there was a way to do that free then I’d think about it – but for now, I’ll have to stick to just the charts on my desktop or laptop.

Looked at the chart his evening – saw a quick opportunity and took it.

I missed the better entry – the OTE – but I still managed to grab enough pips to reach my target.

That should be it. Maybe I’ll take another in the morning if a setup presents itself.

Weekends and crypto out of the way – let’s do some analysis from Sunday into Monday – the first session.

Normally for me, it’s best to wait until the first 8 hours of the day have formed. This gives the market time to “calm down” and actually show where it’s headed. Yes – I took stuff beforehand, but that’s because of my own risk appetite.

So we can see that the pair was in a down trend. Market opened with a push upwards, but it’s still trending down.

After drawing our trend lines and watching for movement – trades were taken from the QT zone to the MA initially – counter to the trend – then from the MA down – following the trend.

First was a buy – to the zone above – towards the trend line. This was in an up trend on the M1 but a down trend on the higher timeframes. This was off the bounce of the QT zone and then to the zone on the higher TF – or the resistance zone on the M1.

Second was a sell – taken in the direction of the higher TF trend, but waited on alignment on the lower TF.

This puts us ahead for today and this week so far. Some accounts cannot trade crypto as I said before. We’ll get into the OTE now.

OTE

This is something you’ll hear about sometimes. The “Optimal Trade Entry” – abbreviated as OTE.

While in this example we got the right setup for the OTE – there’s no telling WHEN it will actually setup.

I’m simply looking for areas where the longer TF aligns with the lower – or counter trend trading during retracement/pull-back.

Note that even with counter-trend trading, you have to wait on some confluence. So – the H1 and H4 may be saying down – but the M5 and M1 may be saying up. If the QT zone and/or resistance zone aligns – I’ll take the position and get out at the next zone or MA bounce.

Once the direction is right or the setup is there – I will take it. It makes little sense waiting on the OTE all the time. While you’ll have better quality trades, you’ll have to wait for the setups. Lots of waiting.

If trading was my full-time job and I could monitor all the pairs that I trade – maybe I’d wait on the OTE more often. For now – I’m going for quick entry/exit. The account is currently too small to handle the drawdown (DD) that would take place – even at 0.01. If you check the image again you’ll see that it eventually went down – but it may have blown that account before doing so – or caused “margin call” to be activated.

Hopefully this gives some context. Will continue again when I have the time.