These are all things you should have researched through backtesting before you being to trade. If you haven't found these things out about your system and are trading then you may in fact be gambling when you think you are trading. Let's step back ...

Trend Trading

Whatever method(s) you choose to enter the market should have a statistically proven edge. The method(s) you use to scale in should have a similarly provable edge. What edge is there in entering the market after it has moved x amount of pips in your ...

Trend Trading

It's interesting that a thread about trend trading has very little talk about actual trading.Funny thing is that this, for me, is exactly the right way to trade. Lots of time doing nothing/very little while the passing of time either costs me money ...

Diversified Trend Trading Approach

These two quotes are pure gold. The right exits and correct money management are the holy grail in trading, not entries. Entries are just mechanisms to get you moving in the same direction the market is moving and thus likely to continue ...

Trend Trading

What a mess. This thread had some potential. According to some people here all markets have been locked in a range for the past 50 years. Anyway G I think you're confusing winrate and win/loss ratio. Seems this is a place to grow your ego not your ...

Trend Trading

The ways I know of to improve your win/loss ratio are: 1.take low risk trades only 2.add to your winning trades 3. capture a bigger trend 4.remove risk on open trades.

Trend Trading

Trend followers don't try to avoid failed trends or false breakouts.You can't know beforehand if a trade is a real or false breakout.We just take the trade using sound money management and know that you may get a few failed trends but just one ...

Trend Trading

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.-Sir Winston Churchill.

Pinpars Rock

It's just exactly that.Traders 'knowing' something that just isn't so.They see the J16 thread and its methods(not just pinbars) implode right before their very eyes but they still believe it works just like the 99%.The mere fact that they can't ...

Pinpars Rock

Don't mean to be a killjoy but that "uptrend" picture you posted is not of the main trend but of a retracement to the main trend. Look at the weekly for the past 10 years and you will see that the GBP/USD has been in a downtrend. Just to further ...

Trend- what is it?

Pinbars may work for some people but I doubt it can work in the long term. There is just too much discretion involved. The only people making money are the people selling courses online. I traded it for about five years with spectaculars gains the ...

Pinpars Rock

If you trade with the trend then you should trade only when there is a trend present. Whatever concept you used to define a trend should prove to be robust and statistically significant.

Trend- what is it?

Here's a real ah ha moment for you. A method is just a bunch of rules that get you into a market in (hopefully) the direction the market is moving or going to move. 100% of the methods here can be profitable. 100% of the methods here can get you ...

Are we all idiots?

You don't have to give away your system or any details about it but show those who you claim to want to help some of the stats of your system and maybe then you might gain some traction. Results of your backtesting, an equity curve and why your ...

(binned per thread starter’s request) Targetting The Right Group

It's unfortunate but not surprising what happened to this thread. There was a lot of promise and the potential to be a very good thread that could open the eyes of a few who are sure they are trading when in fact they are gambling.Even when faced ...

Price action is dumb, and you're lazy for thinking otherwise

Most traders lose money in the markets because they enjoy losing in the market. When they lose they get to come here and talk about trades and methods and sound smart and that is exciting because they get 'likes'. Funny thing is that if 95-99% are ...

Why do most traders lose money in the market?

Only market I'm willing to trade at the moment is the Swiss and maybe the Euro. After seeing how much spread costs affect trades the only pairs I am willing to trade are still the 4 majors. We had some good moves recently so it might take a little ...

The DIBS Method... No Free Lunch continues

Harvest3r what's going on with your trading? Trading has been really slow this week. Just a few losses here and there. How's everybody else doing?

The DIBS Method... No Free Lunch continues

I am trading the method again but there's nothing more to be said. Only reason I'm posting here is because trading gets lonely and boring so I look around ff sometimes to pass the time. Good luck to all trading DIBS. It looks like we may be in for ...

The DIBS Method... No Free Lunch continues

We can't talk about inside bars in a thread about inside bars? Nevertheless, the experience was eye opening.I learned a lot about myself and what I was and wasn't willing to do to be successful at this game. The best piece of advice I could give to ...

The DIBS Method... No Free Lunch continues