Great to hear. The way I see it, every single trade should be a little better than the last, since as we all know this business is a constant learning process. Hard to stick to if you hit a streak of losses, but you gotta keep plugging away and ...

USD/JPY Discussion

I love being right image Every once in a while my analysis is dead on. (2 accounts, my other account hit profit, this one I forgot to move the target up slightly since it was too far from the get-go so still in the trade, but at worst I'll hit ...

USD/JPY Discussion

Just went short. We'll see how this plays out, but you guys think it looks good based on what I circled? image

USD/JPY Discussion

Keep in mind it's a Japanese bank holiday today, so intervention today is a tad unlikely. That said...I have a pending short at 76.37. We'll see if it makes it up there to fill me

USD/JPY Discussion

This is utterly insane. Screw it, I'll take the loss, unless anyone has a clue where it might turn around.

USD/JPY Discussion

Yeah, the USDJPY going down means the usd is failing against a strong yen. wtf is up with this gigantic drop? Really, why would you buy yen with this kind of news? I expect that upon US open people are going to see it and go long pretty quickly ...

USD/JPY Discussion

Good job man! Let's say in the slightly longer term though (max...2 weeks) -- from what I see Japan is going to have one hell of a disaster to recover from, which is going to hurt their economy which is going to devalue the yen. Is my logic ...

USD/JPY Discussion

It does seem weird that it's not rallying. Any insight on this? I was thinking something like profit taking by large institutions but that would have the opposite effect. Maybe I haven't traded natural disasters enough to know but isn't it almost ...

USD/JPY Discussion

I was wondering the same thing -- any idea why the sudden dropoff? This earthquake is looking horrible

USD/JPY Discussion

Agree about the bullish trend. I'm waiting on the retracement to long it again.

Cable Update (GBPUSD)

Glad to see a fellow FXCM'er Nice friendly charts, haha. Really fast question - are you as annoyed by the spacing between the candles as I am that came with the Trade Station update about a week back?

Diary of a Ninja (Lives trades)

I consider myself still mostly a beginner and it's great to read things like this. Point 1 is really true. I've been trading for about 8 months I'd say. When I started, I stupidly lost 86% of my account - in about 5 days - due to hugely over ...

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