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blacksun1 replied Mar 23, 2009yeah, the series 34 is a variation/offshoot of the series 3. it covers most of the topics in the series 3, but applies them to forex, with some other forex only related stuff in there. the series 3 is good to have if you want to be a CTA/CPO and ...
Becoming A Commodities Broker? Series 3 License
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blacksun1 replied Mar 19, 2009i've been in a long term USDJPY buy for about a week now. this totally destroyed it. i'm down about 450 pips, about 150 away from the stop.

113 pip on candle on FOMC...
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blacksun1 replied Mar 19, 2009think about it this way, instead of actually buying one currency against another, imagine you are buying the futures contract for the currency pair. so now instead of buying one instrument against another, your now only dealing with one instrument. ...
clearing house
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blacksun1 replied Mar 18, 2009yeah i like four hour P&F charts mixed with one hour P&F charts. it's really weird though. it seems like no matter what time frame i switch too, all the charts look the same. some kind of weird pattern maybe........
Full Time traders only : Timeframe Poll
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blacksun1 replied Mar 18, 2009all charts are just compilations of tick data. so technically a day chart is the same thing as a minute or hour chart. it just shows a broader range of data. that being said, i like one and four hour charts for my long term trading (couple weeks to ...
Full Time traders only : Timeframe Poll
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blacksun1 replied Mar 18, 2009YOU JERK!!!!!! i was going to write that, but you stole my words. i hate you! lol. but yeah, that is absolutely true. an INDICATOR isn't a SIGNALER, it's a freakin INDICATOR it indicates stuff that happened/is happening, it doesn't predict what's ...
Indicators Crap
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blacksun1 replied Mar 18, 2009that's essentially what a dealing desk is. since retail forex isn't technically futures in the most technical and specific of terms (i.e. no standardized contracts, no expiration dates, no real market closes) they don't need to have a clearing ...
clearing house
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blacksun1 replied Mar 18, 2009anyone see a gold chart? it freakin jumped up 60 bucks in FIVE MINUTES. i haven't seen anything like that before. seriously crazy: image that's just retarded. what it took twenty days to do in the past, it did in a few minutes. on another note, i ...
113 pip on candle on FOMC...
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blacksun1 replied Mar 17, 2009dont do this first of all! a few candles isnt support or resistance and i'll show you why. first look at the first pic: image i put a trendline on three candles with lower lows and lower highs. the way you would be plotting it, that's a downtrend ...
Plotting Trendlines + Support Resistance
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blacksun1 replied Mar 16, 2009that's your problem right there dude. you're not trading, you're gambling. you can have every tool available to you in the world and you would still lose there. on that sort of a time frame, tick movement is pretty much random and unpredictable. ...
Are charts a little bit deceiving?
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blacksun1 replied Mar 11, 2009the first pic here is to show you where all the things mentioned above are: image The Second pic is Step 1, click on "Moving average" and drag it onto the MACD window as shown below: image Step 2, Go to the drop down list name "Apply To:" ...
Adding an indicator to an indicator
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blacksun1 replied Mar 9, 2009options technically don't sit in the market. tdion was right. the actual futures contracts that the options contracts represent sit in the market. remember, options are the rights to buy or sell a contract, they aren't an actual asset. they are the ...
Where do options sit in the market
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blacksun1 replied Mar 5, 2009yeah but it doesnt work for the indicators. i'm using bollinger bands with it but the bands are in the background. the chart is in the foreground, but the indicator isnt. i was wondering if there is a line of code where the DRAW_OBJECT part is where ...
Dynamic colors?
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blacksun1 replied Mar 5, 2009hey ronald, i got a question. how could i make it draw the lines as background objects?
Dynamic colors?
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blacksun1 replied Mar 4, 2009experience i guess. the longer you are around, the more you learn. that's just fact, unless you're brain dead or whatever. but that doesn't help for each individual trade, which it seems like that's what you're asking for, but it will help your ...
Psychology and MM free zone...
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blacksun1 replied Mar 3, 2009it also depends on who the liquidity provider for your broker is. scalping with large positions can be pretty scary. with some of the brokers i've traded at like CitiFX, Deutsche, hotspot, etc., i've noticed that positions over 2-3M get hard to fill ...
How big positions are too heavy to scalp with?
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blacksun1 replied Feb 26, 2009yeah, i mentioned that in my previous post. but im pretty sure that's not what the dude meant about options. i think he meant that buying an option as you would buy a stock or a futures contract has no risk. which is true. but it also has no reward. ...
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