[quote=Tjpld;2495003] i totally agree with the take profit, however i do believe you can trade with indicators as long as you know how to use them. indicators aren't meant to give you trade signals. they are meant to INDICATE changes in the market. ...

Why are YOU not profitable ?

that is entirely possible. all they would have to do is raise their interest rates a bunch of points and then wait for a bit and it could happen.

Parity?

technically, this is bad for japan. even though their currency is strengthening, that's not neccesarily a good thing. Japan WANTS their currency to be inflated. they did it on purpose. so you could say that the fact that the JPY is strengthening is ...

Hypothetical - Effects of earthquake in Tokyo

i love how everyone is going into these big discussions and arguements when wikkid answered the question in like the second or third post. lol. silly traders. he was right though Jonah, it just means patience. that's all it means. not all this ...

Help explain Livermores' quote

if you knew why you werent profitable, you would change that and become profitable. and if you couldnt change it, you wouldnt trade forex anymore. so i would argue that either everyone who is unprofitable has no idea why they are that way or they ...

Why are YOU not profitable ?

i don't understand your English english. what does dab mean? and colored is spelled wrong FYI. no but seriously, this is an interesting idea. it can be used for quick analysis of charts. i.e.: say you look at your chart and see a bunch of little red ...

circle indicator request

it's because the majority of losses come from the little fake outs that happen during consolidation periods or whatever. you do get some wins though because it will call the trades right sometimes. but now, since you are going the opposite way, all ...

Reverse Strategy Ideas?

tim geichtner's hearing in congress did show a bunch of spikes and jumps today. there were some real weird moves for a coupkle hours. then an hour or two later the swissies decide to combat inflation and destroy the CHF. just look at a one hour ...

The Obama Moment?

no your right, a pip is $1, but there can be multiple pips in a tick. a tick is just the amount of pips the currency moved from it's previous price. say the price jumped up from 1.0000 to 1.0005 in one move. there was only one tick, but there were ...

a tick is not a pip in forex

this is very interesting. i would like this indicator as well.

circle indicator request

options in forex have a ton of potential. you just need to read a lot and learn a lot (i mean a freakin ton) of stuff about them before you even try to trade options. do NOT go into options thinking you'll just buy one here or sell one here. that ...

Profiting from different broker prices?

how about just doing the total opposite of what you were going to do. instead of clicking the buy button, just click the sell button. the biggest problem you are probably having is money management though. you can find a ton about that subject on ...

Is this possible??

thats called an arbitrage. in forex, it's incredibly hard to pull of a successful arbitrage because of the nature of the market. arbitrage decisions would have to be executed within microseconds because the prices correct themselves so fast. you ...

Profiting from different broker prices?

lol no kidding. i can just imagine someone saying that in an interview or something. Interviewer: so tell me some of your good characteristics employee hopeful: well, i like children, i work to hard, money management, i'm real good with people LOL

Best single characteristic of a trader?

remeber, Eurodollars are just U.S. dollars in foreign banks. so if the bonds go up and so does the USD, than so will Eurodollars.

What are Eurodollar Futures?

exactly as the guy above me said. a tick is basically how much the pair moved the last time it moved, or in other words, the difference in price between the current price and the last quoted price. pairs in forex dont have to move tick by tick. in a ...

a tick is not a pip in forex

lol. nevermind then. haha. that is pretty weird.

Short bias - with an attached super profitable EA

it could just be that there was a downward trend. if there was an upward trend, you would probably have a long bias.

Short bias - with an attached super profitable EA

having more than one good characteristic is my one good characteristic.

Best single characteristic of a trader?

wait. not totally. i'll figure it out though. thanks again!

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