As last week, I will not be doing too much talking in the trading room whilst trading. I will comment as and when I can. Due to the hazardous nature of summer trading, I will restrict trading to inside bars only for this week. Please bear in mind that many seasoned traders do not trade at all during August as markets are notoriously unpredictable.

Today is the last day of the month and potentially hazardous.

STATE OF PLAY (Target/stop loss 20/30 on GBPUSD & EURJPY, 40/60 on GBPJPY for system II; capital £20,000, 1.5% risk per trade)

System I signals (renamed from system II)- price action
No live trades today.
August cumulative 69 pip loss (£-345).

Inside Bars (1% risk per trade)
No live trade yet.
August cumulative 82 pip profit (£182)

Swiss Army Knife special (1% risk per trade; place stops at 7am)
Monitoring only - 1/8 break even, 4/8 1% win, 5/8 break even, 6/8 break even, 7/8 1% win, 8/8 break even, 11/8 break even, 12/8 break even, 13/8 break even, 14/8 1% win, 15/8 break even, 18/8 2% loss, 19/8 1% win, 20/6 1% win, 21/8 1% win, 22/8 break even, 25/8 1% win, 26/8 1% win, 27/8 2% loss, 28/8 2% loss (cumulative 2% win)
August cumulative 0 pip loss (£0)

Weekly Break Out (1% risk per trade GBPJPY)
Monitoring only - 4/8 closed - sold @ 212.00, 100 pip profit (£165), 11/8 sold @ 210.76, 118 pip profit (£200), 18/8 sold @ 204.76, 176 pip profit (£200), 25/8 sold @ 203.39, 123 pips profit (£200)
August cumulative 0 pip profit (£0)

Wednesday Special (1% risk per trade GBPJPY)
Monitoring only - 6/8 1% win, 13/8 1% loss, 20/8 break even
August cumulative 0 pip profit (£0)

August total cumulative 51 pip loss or £-163 (-0.8%)