The Trader's Arms - Now Open for Business

[pipmart]

I think hog missed his calling as a short story author.... Tales from the Trader's Arms... or maybe... Hobnobs with Hog... how bout... Flying Hogs: Tales of Valor and Romance....

I had a pending order set to buy euro at 1.23 during London Open..... the order expired and then price reached there during nyo. Go figure... That's what I get for not getting up early and checking things.

[The Home Of Golf]

I think hog missed his calling as a short story author.... Tales from the Trader's Arms... or maybe... Hobnobs with Hog... how bout... Flying Hogs: Tales of Valor and Romance....

I had a pending order set to buy euro at 1.23 during London Open..... the order expired and then price reached there during nyo. Go figure... That's what I get for not getting up early and checking things.

Had you been there on the day pipmart, which you can only thank God you weren't, you would have noticed a distinct lack of Valor and Romance. You would also have noticed a distinct lack of bravery, conversation and colour in my face. There is also another small part of that story which I have intentionally omitted, while we're on the subject things that are missing, but that is probably a story for another day.

Bad luck on the 1-23 long, I'm just home from guitar lesson so I'll have a quick shower and get back on here if anything catches my eye.

Just had a thought, if anyone ever joins this thread with the username "The Hairdresser" (why they would God only knows) I wouldn't answer any of their posts, I'd just sit here, staring at their post, wishing they would go away

[The Home Of Golf]

Actually like the look of an Aussie short from the weekly chart down to the 1 hour. Probably would go short from present level (1-446) looking for at least below yesterday's low (1-0413 I think) and down to 1-330 eventually.

But all ranges seem to be very small right now, still like the short though. Stop would probably go around yesterday's high roughly 1-0470

[TalonD]

Hope you have better luck than my entry on EU HOG... what a truely pants entry even by my standards!

EDIT: No problem with 'Mrs HOG' just not keen on tea and hobnobs. Second time around, I took the wife's surname in part. Only one on BP knows it, but trust me it befits a trader! LOL!!!

Let's don't start that thread again... is it or isn't it? LOL

[The Home Of Golf]

Took the above Aussie trade over night in my demo account just to satisfy my "need to trade". Actually finding it a good way to use the demo account. Just as well it was not live account as it didn't work out too well. Next Resistance area looks to be around 1-530 area though it did creep up to 1-0520 while I was at school with the youngest, and is now back down around 1-0508, so may have missed that entry.

Not working today anyway so it's eyes on the charts.

[SimonTemplar]

Actually there's a wee story connected to that ( I tend to have a wee story connected to most things mind you ) which as you can all well imagine has sod all to do with trading but I'll tell you it anyway.

Strange as it may seem I have always had a phobia about hair dressers. I'm not scared of them, I just can't talk to them while they are cutting my hair. Strange I know, but then most phobias are strange. Now no-one who knows me would ever describe me as ' shy ' or 'a bit quiet'. You may well have a whole list of descriptions, but even I know that the words 'shy or a bit quiet' won't be needed.

Anyway, for those of you who remember the Beginners Disaster thread, this hair dresser phobia was actually what caused me to buy the hair clippers to destroy, I mean CUT my own hair. I don't want to tell a hair dresser where I'm going on my holidays, or why I'm not at work, just cut my hair and let me go !!

So moving on to the morning of the vasectomy, you can probably imagine, considering this hair cutting phobia, I wasn't exactly the most talkative guy you've ever met. Add that to the fact that the "operating room" was no more than a broom cupboard with a trolley for me to lie on rather than the vast theatre with flashing monitors and a defib machine, just in-case I 'crashed', that I was expecting, then it's fair to say I was, how shall I put it, absolutely sh****ng myself.

Then in comes the doctor who proceeds to instruct me to drop my tweeds and hop up on to the trolley, or vice versa, didn't really matter as long as the end result was me on the trolley with my trousers at my ankles.

Her first course of action was to administer the local aneasthetic, under which the "operation" would be carried out, not that this was necessary as by now my entire body had went numb from head to toe and at this point I vaguely remember one of us saying to the other one, "You may just feel a little pr*ck." though I can't be sure who it was. I fear however it may well have been me as most parts of my body had entered retreat mode some 5 minutes earlier, except for my sweat glands that is who where relentlessly performing their given duties with gay abandon by now.

Anyway, after assuring me that I had just been given the injection, she picks up the scalpel, and with it hovering inches above the last part of your body you want a scalpel anywhere near and with the room light glinting off it's razor sharp edge, my hand to God she pauses. And after a couple of seconds, which seemed like 3 hours at the time, she turns to face me and says, "So, are you going away on holiday this year?"
Swear to God.

My minds racing, I'm in a panic, considering the circumstances I'm under severe pressure, and now she's went and asked "the hair dresser" question. I had to think fast, not on my feet obviously, but I had to act nevertheless. Time to improvise.

Looking back on my life I have a tendency to link a lot of the things life throws you to golf. Like stressful times just like being in the deep rough etc, so it came as no surprise to me when faced with this question, that my mouth took the executive decision to bypass the brain and hand out some classic sports advice to the doctor.

"You just focus and keep your eye on the ball." it told her.

Hilarious, and has also pretty much guaranteed that four kids could be just the start for Mrs Templar as I just don't think I could see that scalpel and do anything other than defend myself. Fight or flight would kick in!

[The Home Of Golf]

Hilarious, and has also pretty much guaranteed that four kids could be just the start for Mrs Templar as I just don't think I could see that scalpel and do anything other than defend myself. Fight or flight would kick in!

I can just see us all sending you and Mrs T the "Congrstulations, it's a boy !!" card twenty years from now LOL !! You may be reaching for tbe scalpel yourself by that time mate LOL !!

[The Home Of Golf]

Took the Aussie short at 1-0508. Tight stop at 1-0520, no target set

[The Home Of Golf]

Aussie short got stopped out by 1.9 pips then price reverses. Bet you I'm the only trader in the whole world that has ever happened to eh ??????

[bobmaninc]

must be HOG. I have been short the Aussie since sunday of last week. I did get a little nervous today as I trailed my stop to 1.0530 and price came awful close to that level.