The good news: a seven trade winning streak. The bad news: the last two don't count.

As if to prove that nothing can ever go completely right in forex, I woke up today to find that my trading system made its seventh winning trade in a row - definitely a new record for real trade predictions, not just theoretical ones in my historical backtests. The problem was, I couldn't make this trade, just as I couldn't make the sixth winning trade last Friday (as I mentioned in my previous rant). The reason being my trading platform FX Engines was still down, and still is last I checked. While I've had a lot of good things to say about FX Engines in the past, this is approaching an unacceptable level of downtime during live trading hours. I can certainly sympathize when a server goes down, which they inevitably do - in fact, I've worked at a dotcom start-up where screwy servers gave me a couple extra weeks paid vacation. But can you imagine what would happen if a big player like Charles Schwab or E-Trade (or Oanda, or GFT, or you name it) went down for two trading days, three if you count the Asian trading session on Sunday? Even if you're a small player, you're going to need the uptime and reliability of a big player if you want to compete.Anyway, I just had to vent a little because it's kind of a bummer to see a nice run of trades killed off because of technical difficulties, which of course never seem to crop up during a losing streak. That's the last I'll say about it, I promise. Well, unless it happens again. Happy glitch-free trading!