fxHermit, no, not looking for group therapy. looking for a handful of traders who would like to compare notes, talk about their trading methods, the results they are getting and what their ideas are for improvement. Not a lot of that kind of ...

Grailaholics Anonymous

sorry. said it backward, strong yen to buy groceries. weak yen helps their exports.

USD/JPY Discussion

Why do you think japan wants to sell off dollars? They want a strong dollar and a weak yen. so they can buy groceries. This move makes their imports expensive. They want to print yen.

USD/JPY Discussion

sitting this out — this is why the Forex needs traders. Sensible people are SOH. Liquidity is withdrawn. Commercials have to pick up the pieces.

USD/JPY Discussion

Thanks — Thanks for all the work on correlation trading. Just joining.

Hedge and Correlation Strategy

Plotting news in the past — Not so fast... I had the little red circles under each bar but no details when I hovered over them. evidently because I didn't have the info in the database. I remembered that the Download News process took much ...

Plot News indicator (version 3.0)

OK, tried a different platform and it works fine. News.csv file was larger, download took longer. Replaced smaller csv with larger, now both platforms working fine. Don't know why there was a problem. Archie

Plot News indicator (version 3.0)

Plotting news in the past — Hanover, Thanks for a great indicator. Update: Disregard following, problem solved as indicated in the following post. It works fine except that I cannot get it to plot anything earlier than Jan 31,2010, on a chart. ...

Plot News indicator (version 3.0)

Hello, Mr. lovejoy80!, I stumbled upon your thread while searching for a trading journal template. In case you still had regret regarding the subject trade... ;-) I was intrigued by the idea of generating 35% ROA in one trade, so I disected the ...

My path to financial freedom

Now I have a long soldier, all costs covered from 1.3118. took two attempts and his position is tenuous. We'll see if one, both or neither live through the day.

Building an equity millipede

First Soldier Working, so far! — Short Euro from 1.3220 (be) and all costs covered. I decided to do this as an add on to my already successful scalping business. I tried a short on the euro at 0830est and stopped out for 10 pips. waited for ...

Building an equity millipede

I am wondering if you have a different definition of risk than TJPLD. I define risk as the amount of dollars that I am risking on the planned trade. It doesn't have anything to do with the planned TP (Take Profit) for the trade. That , the profit is ...

Twelve widely believed forex myths

When I titled this thread, "the trading demon that mints money," I did so with the intent that we think of money minted for the training/system marketers, as well as for ourselves if we successfuly overcome this demon. But on with the story. About a ...

The trading demon that mints money

When I first started this journey that trading became, I realized that I needed to learn. I started with books, and there are many excellent books. I purchased a few systems. I subscribed to a newsletter. I had my first big win. I made over $40k in ...

The trading demon that mints money

[quote=gspajon;4264761]I am using a method similar to what you are describing. I have solid evidence from 4 years that this WILL work no matter what the naysayers say. I have been trading only two pair (EUR/USD and GBP/USD), using simple price ...

Synthetic Hedging

[quote=Adal;4264751]You seem to have no problem working with a netting account. So why do you insist in going back to a non-FIFO account? You do realize that no professional trader uses this sort of same pair "hedging". Thanks for the reply, ...

Synthetic Hedging

[quote=pipEASY;4261762]And ofcourse this happens just to embarass me all together. How rude. To anticipate for it to happen and then to miss it by few minutes.. image However, I will not continue to trade. There will be more opportuntity for me ...

Building an equity millipede