Moonchild, I'm by no means a expert at this but if you are not putting stops where they should be then you should adjust (lower) your lot size to allow you to use the stop position you want to. I believe that would help you alot.

newbee ...

grads — I (being a non-grad, aircraft mechanic) believe that darkstar has hit the nail on the head. And here is why: The people I work with for the most part do not have the "extra" money that it takes to start trading, they cant afford to ...

Graduates vs non-grads in trading

Entries — 5minutestudent, For eur/usd it opened at 5 mst @ 1.1921 (beginning of the new day for interbankfx) so I took the 75% # which is 28 pips according to my spreadsheet and added it to the open price for a buy stop and subtracted it for a ...

Daytrading using VWB II spreadsheets??

Shano2000, I don't know what you mean by using trailing stop to get into the market?? The only way I know to use a trailing stop is after you are already in. Could explain this please. I have had the same problem with it hitting my open price then ...

Daytrading using VWB II spreadsheets??

Profits — Lambrecht, I was thinking about this same thing on the way to work this morning. I'm thinking of using a take profit point @ 25 pips just to see if it will hit it repeatedly. What I was doing was letting it stop out with the trailing ...

Daytrading using VWB II spreadsheets??

Ok here goes. First off let me say that I'm not a pro or even close, I also don't have the "high power" education that alot of you have. I'm a aircraft mechanic thats trying like hell to figure all this out!! Until today I was breaking even in demo. ...

Daytrading using VWB II spreadsheets??

One thing I've learned in my short time at this is, your not going to get every pip and that ANY positive pip gain is better than a loss. Even if its just one pip, it's one more pip than I had before the trade. Just my opinion

'Vegas Wealth Builder Part II'

Spreadsheet questions — Vegas I have 2 questions about your spreadsheet. Column K (row 103) is the median of Column I which = 30 1. Now is this 30 where you get the 30 for Column L? Column L (row 103) median = 47 2. Going with this theory is ...

'Vegas Wealth Builder Part II'

text messages from c2 — When c2 sends you a text message on your cell phone does it actually tell you what was done or is it just a hit to let you know to check the web site for an update? Thanks, Shootist

'Vegas Wealth Builder Part II'

Yes on a "full" account some brokers also have "mini" accounts for these, 1 Pip=$1 and some of them go even smaller down to 1pip= 1cent I believe.

New to Forex looking for advise

Thanks Vegas I was beginning to think I was seeing things that weren't actually there!! Shootist

'Vegas Wealth Builder Part II'

Did I screw-up? — I jumped into eur/jpy instead of usd/jpy was this an error on my part? I thought I saw the right signs on this pair also. I have made money but I'm trying to figure out if I missed something that should have told me to go ...

'Vegas Wealth Builder Part II'

Yes, we should be on alert regarding USD/JPY and EUR/JPY looking for the reversal. As far as the NPF I am going to defer that to someone with more knowledge than myself. Shootist

Vegas Wealth Builder - Part I

Hey Dial, I added a 50 pip trailing stop on THIS morning but left my stop at the original buy-in stop level, of course I'm at work and can't access my account to see what happened and now after reading all this its just killing me to find out what ...

Vegas Wealth Builder - Part I

I've been looking at the same thing, some of the cell phones look like they will run the wireless programs. I haven't tried any I'm going to go to talk to the people at cingular this weekend and ask them about it.

Substitute for screen time?