Today's rundown of trades and market commentary was live blogged on Twitter. You can see the actual posts on my twitter feed at http://www.twitter.com/uupstart feel free to add me as I will be posting my trades and market commentary live throughout the trading day.

Trading the volatility breakouts today was a little bit hairy as there was no real discernible trend as price chopped and whipsawed quite a bit. If you didn't have your wits about you, you could certainly end up on the wrong side of the trade and get whipsawed quite a bit.

Here are today's trades. They look like a lot of trades, however I actually had only made 3 trades in total. 2 Longs and 1 Short, however part of my strategy is to take a portion of the trade out in profit on the way, essentially banking some profits immediately and letting the rest ride on to more profits or to break even + a couple of pips. Click on read more to see today's trades and charts and more details

Trade 1) Volatility breakout on the long side on this EURUSD Forex Pair, it was a bit of a tough call despite jumping into that trade early in the New York Session at 9:55AM EST. I was able only to really catch about 7.5 pips out ofa 10 pip move. The move was very quick and had a fairly good retracement right away. For all intensive purposes the trade was a good one, volatility on the 1M and 5M chart was at a low point and started to rapidly expand. So I took the trade in the direction that price was going once it broke the 1.4975 price barrier. It stalled quickly and so I took out about half the trade and banked it as profit just for psychological sake to be honest. The rest I took out quickly as price was rapidly turning back and I didn't feel like having to nurse a loser. Luckily as you can see price took a nose dive when Ben Bernanke spoke today.

Trade 2) I don't generally trade the news but this time it was too tempting to resist and so I did and ended up with a very good trade nonetheless. 27 pips on the USD Bullish news from Ben Bernanke's speech that he and the Federal Reserve will believe in a "Strong Dollar" policy.

Trade 3) As you can see with this last arrow, volatility breakout to the long side, and again had broken the 1.4975 barrier past 1.5000 so I got in riding a quick wave. Again a little messy, but on the first half of the trade I was able to close 10.7 pips and the second half 7.1. With price rapidly turning back again I didn't want to nurse a loser so quickly closed out the trade.

All in all a great trading day.