FOREX trading and poker ? Same same but diffren...

I had some beers (well.. not some.. alot..) with a friend that plays on-line poker very successfully , and we come to talk about the similarities between online FOREX trading and online poker games. I am not a big player myself, and how only tried it a couple of times, I like it, but I always was the first to lose my money. But he explained to me that there are a lot of similarities for a successful poker player and what I am doing. I borrowed some books from him that explains the basic poker calculations for odds. Not ready with then yet, but it is sure interesting to read about poker from that angel.
The basic element of statistic calculation, and only to play (=trade in my case) when I have better possibilities to win then to lose. He told me that he had system to calculate the odds, depending his position on the table. He only played when he felt that he had higher possibility to win than to loose. I realize that I have exactly the same strategy, I only trade when the trend is in my favor, and when I think the  "odds" are to my favor.  This thanks to my fx trading system.

I will write more about this when I have finished the book,. and had a chance to discuss this with my friend once more.

Do any of you have any thoughts about this issue ? I guess that some online fx traders also have tried online poker successfully as there seems to be some basic elements that are the same (or poker players that have been successful in fx trading)

/ Mike

last week was good :-)

Hi

I did an good trade last week (21 of jan), the trend was quite strong in EUR/USD. I am however starting to get scared... I feel uncomfortable with the high leverage, so I only used 20 this time.  But the profit was enough anyway :-)

/ Mike

				My capital		Leverage
Sell		1,3602		1 200 000		20		32644800
Buy		1,3538		1 200 000		20		32491200
						Profit:		153 600	USD

Updated system page

Hi
I have updated the system page with some picture, I hope it will explain my system better than just text.
/ Mike

Welcome to my first post

Hi, and welcome to my journey to my upcoming fortune ;-). This blog will be about how I trade, my thoughts and minds about the trades and my system. I have recently started this blog, and focused on the basic pages. I will in a couple of weeks start to write about my trades, so you can follow how I do. You can here follow how my FOREX trading system have made me an millionaire, and how the system will create the opportunity for me to quit my boring 9 to 5 job.

You can meanwhile browse my blog and look at my system, my trading journal and some other stuff. Please feel free to contact me if you want to know something else.

/ Mike