June 15th

So my last trade was a complete failure. I thought I noticed a trend about to start, but it never materialized and so I found myself closed out when the price reached my stop loss.

For my next trend, dailyfx has noted that "The benchmark US dollar tumbled for the fifth time in six days Tuesday; and there is little sign that momentum is letting up". Although this made me think that I want to sell USD in favor of another currency, I've been having a bit of trouble figuring out which pair to use. Dailyfx has also commented on the rising price of the Euro, but I'm not sure I'm confident that this trend will continue (though I'm not really sure why...). In the end, I decided to do a sell USD/CHF, just because the candlestick chart looks as if prices have been unusually high. With the weak dollar, I'm hoping that this will start to change

In terms of what I did today, Alyssa and I continued to go through binders of bonds and stocks to make sure that they were accounted for in PastPerfect. Most are related to Railroad companies. While some have been accurately described in the program, there are a lot that either have completely incorrect information (usually the date) or don't seem to match up with any entry's description. We also helped place new labels on some of the boxes in the archives.