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USD/JPY Discussion

Long buy 17 minutes ago would give you a 50 pips profit. When did you enter ?

USD/JPY Discussion

Just made 50 pips on USD/JPY. I certainly hope that the world will go crazy like in late 2008, I definitely could use the money !

Damn the markets are going crazy right now!

Now that s a complicated chart ! What's your timeframe for trading ? Intraday trading based on the daily trend ? Daily trader ? Long term trader?

I learn to trade J16 [chart with thoughts]

You can held your account on multiple currencies. I'd recommend USD, EUR, CHF.

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I used a weekly time frame to determine the trend, a daily time frame to get an entry zone, a 30 minutes charts to get a strong move, a 5 min chart to confirm, a 1 min chart to find an entry point and finally a 10 sec chart to judge the quality of ...

Weekly and Monthly TF trading - Wow!

Well I've also tested hundreds of systems and thousands of variations of systems (different moving average length, bollinger bands, atr, cci, divergence, etc) and stop losses are always better than the exit parameters I used or that came with the ...

Trading without stop loss

In my experience and in the systems I've tested, stop loss are life savers and really improved the performance during the backtests (on 1mn, 5 mn timeframes). I'm more of a trend-trader and that might explain our different results. But scalping is ...

Trading without stop loss

Oh, the easiest way is to buy far out-of-the-money options right before expiration date, and then to wait until they expire worthless. For example you could buy lots of GS 250.00 call (exp feb 2010) today and wait until mid-february.

Can you intentionally ruin an account easily?

It might but losses can be devastating so I wouldn't recommend it.

Can you intentionally ruin an account easily?

I read it but "-ve spread" doesn't mean anything. Still, it would be quite easy : just use the minimum stop loss. Or just use high leverage. Or just do the opposite of what I do. The easiest way would be to buy options right before expiration the ...

Can you intentionally ruin an account easily?

That's VERY easy to do. Use max leverage. Buy a pair with a large spread. Sell immediately. Repeat.

Can you intentionally ruin an account easily?

Backtesting is very important but that's just one of the bricks necessary for a solid trading system.

Back testing...is it a waste of time?

Quantitative Easing.

Strat's Long Term Stress Free Trading

Good luck ! But... GJ is wild one ! You're in for a ride... I guess you're seeking excitement...

Trading Live Against The Beast--Gbd/Jpy--(Do Or Die)--

It depends. Late 2008 was very trending, today's markets are really ranging. I'm a 1m trader and I can only find 2-3 "real" trends per month. That's 10% of the time. And given that the markets are fractal.........

do markets trend more then range?

How successful have you been lately ?

My 50 pips a day trading journal

He came back yesterday and dug out this thread out of Forex Factory's graveyard Post 159 : url

Stop fooling yourself; There is no system

Congrats Woolala ! that's a fantastic performance

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