lol what? "markets will behave more wildly when automated trading becomes a perfect science" how can a accurate, perfectly scientifical program call a wild random market? if anything, the market will even out. you'll have a computer buying for a ...

Computers to replace Traders

lol so do i. i hate pronouncing all the currencies, especially when you're talking about em all day long. Swiss Franc becomes Chief, Canadian dollar becomes "Cad", Australian Dollar becomes "Awws" i hate the franc. just when you think you now what's ...

Trading Room; 1KT

i don't know if it would help, but it definitely wouldn't hurt. i'm not sure someone fromanother country needs the series 3 to use a US broker asd long as the broker is regulated by the nfa. i would say get it though. i learned a lot from taking the ...

Becoming A Commodities Broker? Series 3 License

if you see a move up to the top resistance line then a move back to the bottom resistance line, and it formed a head and shoulders looking thing, then yes it would. but it would need to form the formation first. then trade the break of the bottom ...

EUR/USD - Head & Shoulders Forming??? Input Please

i like to have some trance music going in the background. the driving pace keeps me awake and focused plus it's freakin awesome music. seriously though, it's fun, exciting music, which keeps me alert, which helps me trade better because i'm ...

What kind of music you hear while you trade?

because we have the united states congress leading the country we are so screwed unless the govies give up control of the market. if we are going to live ina free market world, we can't just live with the good aspects of it. we have to let the bad ...

Do you think the recession is over ?

cool, so you mean on the current bar without a close or anything right? if so i do something sort of similar. whenever i see a weird spike or something that just shouldn't be there and it's in my direction, i take it immediately. i view it sort of ...

Trading Room; 1KT

What if we started trading on a leap year? does that mean we have to trade for twelve real years to have the 3 years experience? lol. just kidding. this sounds like a great idea. when i first came on i saw the 1KT forum, and it seemed pretty ...

Trading Room; 1KT

honestly, there is no concrete way to predict a trend is starting as it is starting. it is impossible to call it. you can only identify it as a trend after it has been trending. that's why you call it a trend; i is a series of small upward (or ...

Trend Definition...

i would say look at the pairs' spreads every hour or half an hour for a day or two. whenever the spread is lowest is when it is most liquid or has the most volume and least volatility. this is probably the best time to trade it. or look at just ...

Currency pairs and trading times

that is partially correct. on a retail scale, it can't, but on a hedge fund/institutional scale, it can. when you trade large amounts of money through a big bank (somewhere on the scale of 3million or greater), something called the ladder system ...

Trendline indicator (NOT Demark or fractal)

your logic isnt wrong. it's absolutely correct. as for the edit, exactly. a currency pair wont go to zero. for example say eurusd was at 0.0001 and moved down a pip. it wouldnt go to 0.0000, it would go to 0.00008 or something. because pairs are ...

Trendline indicator (NOT Demark or fractal)

not too large at all. like leon said, its all about liquidity. for example, if people are only trading 20 lots either way on GBPSEK at 8pm EST, and you drop 30 lots, you will move the market. now, pretend you want to drop 30 lots of EURUSD at 11am ...

Trendline indicator (NOT Demark or fractal)

personally, i use support and resistance as the formula for my support and resistance. basic horizontal supp-res zones are probably the only totally reliable thing in the market. can't go wrong there.

Support / Resistance

from a trading point of view, i guess that makes sense. but froma banking/accounting point of view or an investment/reporting view, it is measured from max equity to min equity, so a floating loss is drawdown. in your own records, using balance is ...

Drawdowns?

a couple of friends from work and i were discussing 3D charting and this is what we came up with. we all know what a candle looks like. it has open high low close, but it doesn't show you for how long the candle stayed at a certain price. so what we ...

"Time After Time" Open Forum

lol, pitters and leon, i already tried to tell them that. they didn't listen. having the big bad broker hunt your stops is a more convenient idea than the fact that they think like almost everyone else. it's easier to be the victim.

Hide your SL from stop hunting

lol. dude, you are just as bad as all the people who have charts full of indicators, lines, fibos, channels, bands, ma's, etc. you are taking an extreme in a situation where the solution lies in the middle. indicators are used wrongly by the ...

Indicators... The Beautiful Lie

that makes more sense than this stop hunting nonsense, but in any event, it's not the brokers doing it. it's large institutional/bank traders. a broker hunting your stop earns no money from taking you out of the trade. it doesnt work that way. they ...

Hide your SL from stop hunting