lucid and clear — Great post! Really enjoyed the clarity and simplicity! Could I ask one thing: when you mention "market open" do you mean Asia open?

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week of sept.18th — What's everyone looking at for the weekly? Any charts screaming out at you? I ask as my charting software has a temporary glitch and I can't check them myself!

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constructive criticism — Hear, hear!-- MK was just trying to be honest and realistic-- ain't nothing wrong with that..

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nice! — Unfortunately not me-- nicely done mate!

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nicely dodged bullet! — to use a cricket phrase- `well left` ! (on the GBP/JPY short)

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Hi Jason, I think most people agree that there are plenty of week when it is really tough to make good pips in FX using Graeme`s method (or any other trend-following method)-if you`ve got good entry skills then at least you`re participating without ...

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long-term — -Hi Veefx, You have obviously thought deeply about Graeme`s theories and have put some of them at the least into practice for at least a year. From reading your posts, my impression is that you are at least following the core ...

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I bow to your superior experience — Hi MK, firstly you have a lot more trading experience than me and I have no experience of the Hang Seng or Nikkei 225 so I cannot comment on that. secondly I can only say what has worked (or not)for me -- ...

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5 min entries — Hi Midknight, I have also experienced all the challenges you list above and agree that it is not all simple to implement Graeme´s method consistently (although I was helped by a very good strong trend in my favorite pair when I ...

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broker — hi Jason, I know about US-based brokers but I know that many of them have offices overseas which are not governed by the same FIFO rules and all the other US based traders I know have opened accounts since 2010 with these overseas ...

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change brokers — I don't believe there is any reason to stick with a broker who won't allow hedging. Even if it is a bit of a hassle to change brokers (it can still be done REALLY quickly), it is not possible to trade effectively (certainly ...

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keep it up! — I for one think it is very interesting that you have enjoyed some success in a totally different market from forex-- please don`t stop updating us on your progress

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cheering you on — JasonC, Without wanting to sound too much like Oprah-- thanks for sharing, mate. I reckon there is a good chance at least one of your current positions could still be alive next week-- and after that, the sky's the limit! greg

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next resistance — H Hans, I have a question: you write that you enter 2 positions and then close one `at resistance` and let the other run. Do you have a method (other than feeling the market`s price action at the time ) to distinguish between ...

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which is the worse feeling? — If you have 2 undesirable outcomes which makes you feel worse?* 1. You get edgy about a trade (possibly after a few back-to-back losses) and take profit of , say, 80 pips, then shortly after see that if you had ...

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reply — Cfabian, I agree with you- I mean short the dollar, so long EUR/USD.

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yesterday was dead — after a predictably dead day yesterday, when I hope everyone practiced their golf swing rather than traded , today seems to be kicking in last week`s hindsight very nicely indeed (so far!!)

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week of may 30th — (I only trade the USD pairs and the JPY pairs..) Hindsight telling me reasonably clearly to look for opportunities to short the dollar next week. JPY pairs look a bit iffy or consolidation-y so gonna stay away from them ...

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scalping in forex takes a lot of skill — I guess that you have also read Graeme (a.k.a pipeasy on FF)`s thread? Although a resolutely very, very long-term trader, when Graeme enters his trades (at least a good many of them) he is looking for ...

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not just you — all trades I have entered since monday have either stopped out at BE (6 so far) or look like they will do so momentarily or have taken small loss(4 so far) ..

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