Road Trippin'

I'm about 40 minutes or so from hitting the road for the holiday weekend. I'm slugging coffee in an effort to boot up enough brain cells to make this happen. It will, just gotta give it enough time... and caffeine.

This line is for a repeated warning to myself and others that I continue to ignore: don't trade Forex when you have other commitments that may not allow time for it (some ugly trading last night, ugh - got out with a profit though, winning consecutive trade #47).

Also, this experience reminds me of another warning I already know and should learn to heed: don't bother trading when there's a bank holiday going on and volume is decreased. Low volume can exaggerate price moves and make your trades turn painful really quick.

I'm up something like 3.5% for the week, but I haven't tracked it exactly because this week also was the end of June and the start of July, I shifted funds around in my Forex accounts, etc. Up. The balance is up. Simple.

I've been keeping an eye on gasbuddy.com ahead of my trip. If you haven't heard of this site before, check it out before you go on the road. It uses user supplied information to help you find the lowest gasoline prices in a given area, and the Gas Buddy Trip Calculator can even tell you about how much fuel your particular make and model of car will use, where to buy it, and what it will cost for a round trip! I feed that info to my TomTom GPS and save a little bit more when I travel.