That's trading. It's mostly waiting. Waiting for a setup, waiting for an entry, waiting for price action to hit your target or tell you to bail out. If you think it sucks, then you don't like trading and should do something else. Here's an alert I ...

Why is nobody willing to post their live account statements on here?

Maybe you have something worth checking out. It was wrong of me to assume that most people logged on are newbs and donors, since most of the pros lurk and don't post. They need a place to see the news announcement list like everyone else. It will ...

Forex volume

I see statements on here from time to time. They're so easily photoshopped, what would it prove?

Why is nobody willing to post their live account statements on here?

Funny! But from a trading standpoint, I hope you were kidding. This is where I go when things are dead in the market. Although I stay logged on whenever my trading platform is open, regardless of market activity.

Forex volume

Ahhh, good point, Wolf, thanks. What I got from that is, that tick volume would be the integration of every trade worldwide, since the price reporting network is from the banks. It is an indication of activity, not volume. When price changes, ...

Forex volume

Well, no. I'm kinda on vacation for the last few weeks, am trading but not doing much studyiing or practice. Blowing my study time on FF I guess! It definitely improved my trading, totally convinced me to use nothing but 4 hour candles for G/J ...

VHands Trading Simulator

I recommend the following threads to anyone starting out: url url url url Well, actually I don't recommend the one on indicators to anyone, but you asked specifically about that subject. The better I understood them the less I used them, and ...

best book on indicators

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BEST EAs

If you have any programming experience, MQL4 is not tough, especially with the lessons posted above. An MA is only one command in MQL4. Once you learn some commands, it will start coming to you. If you have no experience writing actual code, then it ...

Should I Learn MQL4 and WHY?

It's been said that the holy grail is the trader, not the system. Sure there are pros that can get 10 good trades in a row, but not because of the setup, or the entry. At the present, my last 9 trades have been "good", for a total of 104 pips. But ...

A Dream Scheme... (Don't waste your time)

Yesterday I felt good, really good. That might not seem significant to you, but let me tell you, it is. It's the first time I've felt like myself in years. Until I got it lifted off, I hadn't realized there was this dark cloud of stress over me. It ...

Transition from Losing to Winning

Nice going, Norm! I'll have to check this thread more often. My call from last night... well... the market got flat and dead yesterday evening so I didn't really want it sitting there, thought I might put it back before bed, but had already shut the ...

The Holy Grail - Found

I don't know. You're the one who said it. You mean you don't know either? I think banks might not want their volumes made public, that's just an opinion. I also read somewhere that broker volume is just the volume at that broker, which would be ...

Forex volume

How about volume? Someone posted in another thread that volume comes from the interbank, same place the quotes come from. I always thought the volume info shown by a broker was just tick volume or actual volume at the broker. I don't know if the ...

MarketMakers

This may be true in every single case and may not. What is true in every single case is that the pro football player drilled and drilled and drilled and worked out for all he was worth, and practiced until he was ready to drop, day in, day out, year ...

Why do 99% of the people who wants to be traders fail?

Are you saying a fearless, confident trader with no ego will be successful? I agree with ItalianSharp. You have to have an edge. Until you do, you will stay in constant psychological distress from trading. A few posts back it was 75, now it's 80? ...

Why do 99% of the people who wants to be traders fail?

How do you know this, please?

Forex volume

I tried it a couple times, resulting in a rule for myself, "NEVER HEDGE". Bottom line, I didn't know what to do with a position, I hedged, then I had 2 positions I didn't know what to do with. I was uncertain to begin with. Or maybe I was sure the ...

whats with this "hedging" thing??

Great points, GCP, this one I had to comment on. I didn't think it was easy, I just sorely underestimated the difficulty! Or I could say "It's not really hard to win at forex. It's just harder than I thought."

Why do 99% of the people who wants to be traders fail?

I haven't actually taken too many of these trades, but there's one on the GBP/USD that I kinda like right now. I like it enough to set the sell stop at 20 with a t/p of 10 and s/l of 30 and walk away. I know it's not by the rules per se, I'd rather ...

The Holy Grail - Found