# closed winning trades : 1
# closed losing trades : 1
Net monthly return on risk capital : 1.3%
Not much to write home about this week. I had one winning trade on the short side on Tuesday and a small loss entering long after Friday’s employment report when the upside momentum in the cable did not follow through.
I’m excited to report that I am testing a system for the Euro (EUR/USD) that could prove to be a nice complement to the Cable Glider system. Since I’m new at portfolio level backtesting, I’m approaching this slowly. Lately, the tools offered for TradeStation by TSResearch.com have been tremendously helpful to me. They have a genetic optimizer product which is easy to configure, and a portfolio level backtester, both of which are reasonably priced at 285 EUR…I’ve been working with the free versions but I suppose I’d better buy the full versions before the dollar gets any weaker! 
I will post more details about my Euro system once it has been rolled out. The goal here will be to use the Euro system in concert with the Cable Glider to smooth out the equity curve. So far, it looks very promising, as the two systems have close to a zero correlation.