quite right, and as I mentioned that was not a good 1H entry. I sent him an e-mail but no reply yet, and yes things are escalating right now, with the arrival of the secret police dressed as civilians and attacking the peaceful demonstrators on ...

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agree, and as I said, if that was a 1H trade I would have chosen the 1H kumo as my target, but it did not look like a good trade on te 1H chart because it was a reversal trade, and the 1H and 4H were both still trending.

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My exit was at the weekly resistance, and TS is a good option normally, allowing you to lock in some profits but not so early in the trade. Hi Gorron, there is no contest here, all I'm trying to say is both arguments are correct and I think it is ...

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No holy grail — Thank you for your answer and it is well said, but let me say that this trade was as it happened a perfect entry and the exit was exactly to the pip before it reversed. I post the chart below that led to an automatic TP. If I ...

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Indicators lag — Hi Jap, I would like to post a trade I took this afternoon. I took a nice +37 pips in profit after which it reversed. I have removed the reason why I took my profit there. Can you suggest a TP level on this chart? (Please, ...

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Accepting losses — This is an extremely important concept for becoming a successful trader. You have to accept the fact that losses are inevitable, and you have to accept that losing a trade is in fact being right because you already ...

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USD weak — currently USD is taking a beating compared with AUD and CAD and CHF so these are the best picks for now (AUDUSD long, USDCAD short, USDCHF short). The moves started two hours ago and are still trending. Here's one I took earlier ...

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I would like to disagree here if I may, a ranging market on daily is perfect for trend trades on lower TF, same goes for weekly or monthly compared to daily. Hi everybody, I just want to say a few words, traders here and every where are always ...

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TS for exit — Hi Gorron, I would agree with you about using the TS for exit. It's the best pip preserving exit as far as I can tell, and never worry about what you might miss by going out because if the market cycle is still up then your ...

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Avoiding Fakes — Well in this case I am not gonna give you what the book says because it only works to some extent and on longer TF rather than the shorter TF we are using. You have to know that fake breakouts are inevitable and you have to ...

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Fake Breakout — Yes, the example provided by Lessformore was a clear trending situation where almost anything will work, now for the more frequent whipsaw situation there is simply no way to determine a fake breakout for sure, but are you ...

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Profit Taking — Nice, what is your profit taking strategy?

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Thank you Lejumeau, the whole document in the link has been transferred to a pdf document and has been posted early in the thread as ichimokuwiki.pdf. And yes you are right it is simple clear and complete.

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Hello — Hi Eg, nice to see you too, it's been quite a while, I'll be around more frequently hopefully.

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EMA cross vs Ichimoku — the TS/KS cross is identical to the EMA cross and is integrated in one system with five components that work together what so simple about it? you already have 7 components to your system.

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A brilliant idea Gorron, I was also thinking that the kino monitor does the same thing only it does it continuously, only missing the daily, so if kino is feeling generous he could include it as a third row and use arrows instead of X?? ...

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Thanks, you have to forgive my ignorance, I've only started to experiment with this sheet today. few days earlier I only clicked the signature of GeraldFX and I realized that he was updating it but did not know how, I just thought you only cliked ...

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Thanks again for your explanation, I see now that in order to get the data on the front sheet one has to enter the coding manually on the entry page. buddy that is quite alot to do hourly, but I guess you don't need to. OK, that is understood, but ...

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Thanks Gorron for your help, I have been trying to get familiarized with this sheet and I did just what you mentioned and copied the sheet to my account, but I am unable to update the data as you can see from the pics below. It's the same data all ...

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High probability kumo breakout — Good evening everybody, I thought after a long abstinence from trading to start contributing to this thread by introducing a High Probability Kumo Breakout strategy. This is a setup that I modified based on a ...

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