blek! ive had a lousy trading day put my stops too close! my calls were right- it was headed short but not before a small retrace that stopped me out. (i actually did this a couple of times too) I had a couple of small 10 pip victories but on the ...

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definitely kinda hard to keep up with a journal while you scalp -posting my trades in a screencap form is most convenient -especially since im trading 15 mins now last night was great! while i should have been studying I noticed that the price of ...

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its dumb to trade entirely price action it seems forex factor has nice news reports too but ive never known how to take them into account.

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I wonder with the gdp/jpy If I placed an order for something small at any given time what are the odds that if i waited that my tp would be hit? geppy ranges so wildly it would almost impossible not to be hit unless you go long at the exact bottom ...

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my eur/usd+gdp/usd trade would have worked but I set the sl way too low. otherwise if i hadn't put such tight stops it would have lost only minor on a few others. But i lost 50 pips on 6 pairs for a total loss of 300 pips, and I got fed up with the ...

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orders place at 6pm sunday, not knowing any good tp/sr i arbitrarily set the tp and sl of all orders at 50tp and 50pt sl I traded mainly off of dailies this time, but wont put in any more trades untill next sunday. Potential risk: 300 pips, 12% max ...

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bah i tried an oanda demo account and the software is awful, im going to have to find something that uses mt4. Im switchign servers hopefully this will correct my prob. trying to find an honest broker is hard, every one has something bad said about ...

meta trader 4 problem:its ignoring tp and sl

would it be horribly rude to ask you what your current system(s) rules are now? im reading through steves posts with great interest, but for the sake of a needle in a haystack id thought id ask. im at about page 73 of the thread, but skipped to ...

Steviet's Live Trades!

ya so far ive been trying to jump out well before it hits support/resistance when its going against the trend. +using dailies so far (couple of weeks/ 4 trades) signals have been fairly robust. -1 bad trade i got out of at a 50 pip loss. -ill try ...

trading divergences

trick is its the first time ive been profitable in weeks. Basically its gambling i guess to say- hey itll probley at least go up by 13. I suppose I could use atr of smaller timeframes, or support/resistance of smaller timeframes to set conservative ...

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how did you learn to analyze charts then mysticdriver? Though a system may not be necessary, everyone has as method. They must have some systematic way of understanding what is going on out there, and taking advantage of it.

weekly system: help?

keeping it simple? — url Why make all kinds of complicated systems? this one when backtested looks like it makes consistent pips with minimal drawdown. Sure it lags, and it misses alot of the movement, but it seems to make consistent profit ...

Directions please? :what ive been doing

Update — Thanks again for all your thoughtful replies ---- Ok heres what im doing: 90% just me screwing around on my own/backtesting/etc. I threw out all my indictators... I had like 20 on each chart... getting kinda rediculous. Now I ask ...

Directions please? :what ive been doing

This may be a little off the central forex topic, but are any of the other trading markets any easier to make money (and as much) on? Stocks, options, equities, futures, etc... I never really research into anything else. I noticed technical analysis ...

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