Thursday, April 2, 2009

Forex Profit Monster March 2009 Results

Time to wrap up another week of trading on the afternoon before NFP is released tomorrow... and instead of knocking off early for the weekend I'm here to post on the blog the FPM results for the month of March.

It was another profitable month for FPM across the 8 currency pairs that I trade on the 4 Hour charts (listed below). I banked +779 pips this month... here are the overall results:

Trades taken: 33
Trades won: 11
Trades lost : 22
Winning percentage: 33%

Before I break down the information for you, now is a good time to stop and point something out to the traders who contact me wanting to know more about the win ratio of the Forex Profit Monster system. If you're going to trade this system as it's designed (as a trend following system) the win ratio of trades is NOT important. The winning percentage has varied anywhere from 25-80% per month... yet almost every month I've traded this system since the spring of 2007 has been profitable for me. That's almost two years! Sure some months I barely eek out a profit and some months are large windfalls (October 2008)... but the point is the win ratio is NOT important. If you continue to focus on the win ratio of a trading system you are focusing on the wrong aspect of the system. There are a lot of trading systems being hawked on the internet with "80-90% win rates". People flock to them thinking they've found an automated cash machine... only to find out that these systems contain ridiculous Risk/Reward ratios like a 10 pip take profit with a 250 pip stop loss. It's not too hard to see what happens here... if this trading system wins 9 out of 10 trades you will quickly lose your shirt. Your profit potential will be 90 pips over 9 wins and your 1 loss may be up to 250 pips! Do you see how ludicrous that is?

The important thing in trading is to keep your losers as small as possible (exit when you get an exit signal) and let your winners run (again... don't exit until you get an exit signal). That is how Forex Profit Monster works... and why it delivers profits as well as it does. Are there losing trades? Sure... in fact this month there were twice as many losers as winners but I still profited 779 pips.

OK... with that out of the way, here are the rest of the results...

Pips won: 3,469
Pips lost: 2,690
Total pips: +779

Average win: 315
Average loss: 122

Average R/R ratio: 2.58 to 1

Here's how each of the 8 currency pairs I trade performed in March (from best to worst):

EUR/USD - 2 wins, 0 losses - +910 pips
GBP/USD - 2 wins, 2 losses - +380 pips
USD/CAD - 2 wins, 1 loss - +381 pips
AUD/USD - 1 win, 3 losses - +211 pips
EUR/JPY - 2 wins, 3 losses - (-37) pips
USD/JPY - 0 wins, 5 losses - (-293) pips
USD/CHF - 0 wins, 4 losses - (-363) pips
GBP/JPY - 2 wins, 4 losses - (-410) pips

That's it for March... here's how FPM has performed so far in 2009 now that we've finished the first quarter:

January - +3,795 pips
February - + 890 pips
March - + 779 pips

Total so far for 2009: +5,464 pips

For more information about the Forex Profit Monster trading system (and the Forex Day Monster day trading system) visit my website at http://www.forexprofitmonster.com/. To purchase either FPM or FDM just click on this link to visit my eBay page http://myworld.ebay.com/jimsgr8stuff4less

I hope your March was profitable and here's to continued success in April!

Jim
http://www.forexprofitmonster.com/
http://myworld.ebay.com/jimsgr8stuff4less