this strategy's methodology is flawed. ask yourself why should this method succeed consistently time after time? what is it based on? it is bound to fail in the long run. it has no real "edge"....it's just taking blind breakouts you do need an edge ...

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wow you've been sending him checks and you don't even have his phone number? but Chris is right.. outsiders like us really have no right to opinion on this matter... it's something between you and Chris. hope you guys both work it out

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wow..that is like cat out of the bag stuff.. Jim really is a great guy

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thanks, that clarified a lot of things!

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there is no free lunch — i hate to say this but in the end whenever you see someone being really nice and helping out people like this, they always ending up starting a charging service. There is no free lunch. I'm not sure if some of you have ...

Silent Service Method

naked charts are the best way to go, a chart tells you all you need to know. RSI, stochs, MACD, EMAs, SMAs are all lagging indicators, they can only tell you what happened in the past.

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It can be mathematically demonstrated that in any wager game with varying probabilities, winnings are maximized by adjusting the bet size in accordance with the perceived chance for a successful outcome. -The New Market Wizards

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exactly, "when you know how to do it, just like everything else, and Chris was trying to outline this very thing." everything in life is easy then

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i beg to differ.. have you read "The Outliers" by Malcom Gladwell? well neither have i.. but one of the points he tries to make is the 10,000-hour-rule, meaning if you spend 10,000 hours at anything you are most likely going to get good at it.. ...

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simple. in hindsight it's easy to scan 30 pairs on the 5M TF and pick out a pinbar with the trend that worked. and i know not all of your trades are winners. but hey no1 likes to brag about losers i'm not trying to say your method doesn't work or ...

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winner winner chicken dinner!

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ah thanks, yea i modified my # posts per page thats why it doesn't work

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how do you go directly to an individual post like 13579? from the URL i tried url but that doesn't work i also played around with the other variables.. what does the p mean in the URL? i cant just enter postcount=blah and goto that post ...

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i suppose you are looking at the 4H pinbar? it looks decent, but the fact that the daily is forming a conflicting (C grade) pinbar going long.. and there is a lot of traffic around 1.7730.. personally i will not be taking this

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anyone still holding the GBP/CAD? maybe i should have taken my profits already but that daily pinbar setup the other day just looked too good to resist, i'm in this one for the long haul.

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i too started to use Oanda's TS when it was implemented live.. however i found that i'm better off and more profitable w/o it.

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.8000 is like a magnet level, big round number, and you can see price always goes back to it.. currently price has broken the level and it might act as support on the daily time frame... however if you go out to the monthly TF there really is no ...

Silent Service Method

this poll is useless because its about targets.. you should ask what people's real profit factor is... and include <1,, where the majority of votes would be but that would be useless too because its easy to lie on the internets!

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do traders typically close their monthly books today and calculate their monthly ROI? next monday is the start of the new trading month?

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i got burned on this one too. i made a choice between this one and the cable pinbar, i took this one and didn't even get to BE.. had i traded the cable pinbar i would have gotten to my 1st target at least.. oh well, can't win em all

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