so if no target (TP) is hit, you can lose 4 trades, right?

Morning hours breakout

had the impression that too many shorts were closed out making the buy/sell position very unbalanced. good luck with your new effort.

Spongebob's VS GBP/JPY Journal

wow, around 70% drawdown...... appreciate your efforts spyderman. but think you`re too focused on getting the right system for when the times are favourable. but what about the times when there`s no trend? is a drawdown of 70% not crazy? agree with ...

Reverse Engineering a Profitable System (REPS)

hello Forexcube, interesting way of trading you got here. so what happens now with AU200 - closing out hedge at 4890 if it gets that far and adding another buy at the same time? if price still continues down another hedge somewhere below 4890? or do ...

Paradox

yes, you can do that if you trade different calendar months for that instrument. say you want to trade long and short gold: you can buy the December contract you can sell the January contract

Question About Hedging

hey nubcake.........now I remember why I put you on ignore in 2013 with your mates bluesteele and lillelise

Hedging is it really useful?

yes nubcake, even you don't know everything - we learn every day - hopefully you do too.....

Hedging is it really useful?

hedging can be useful in long-term trading. look at the Nasdaq100 for instance.......from March 2009 it starts to climb and you know its likely this trend will continue for the next 5-9 years. you`re one of those traders/investors who enter every ...

Hedging is it really useful?

hello fairy doing this on the Nasdaq daily - long or short - exited my longs and am now short again. used to trade 10 different "non-correlated" instruments, but noticed in the August China scare that almost every instrument reacts the same way. now ...

Has anyone ever attempted to trade every move on the market?

why would you want to buy when the longer term trend is down if you want to follow the long-term trend? best to enter after a correction and then a few days of price going in the right direction. a good thread to read up about it is from feb2865 ...

Your best way to follow longer term trend? Opinions!

[quote=yonnie;8577610] any of the Atom traders know what he means by this?

Atom8 Discussion

OP is clearly wrong. I opened several accounts with UK forex brokers like LMAX and Ikon Finance. these companies are registered and regulated by the FCA and must have all their clients money in segregated accounts. they are financial services ...

Are your funds protected with retail fx brokers?

hello C, delved a bit deeper and looked at metals, softs, grains etc (not bonds) and all of them reacted more or less to the China scare. I have come to the conclusion that in times of stress in the market place, diversification as a tool is of ...

Diversified Trend Trading Approach

hello C, am all for diversification, but not really to smooth the equity curve. to me it doesn`t matter that some months are far better than others: at the end of the year the curve might be the same for most instruments. however am more concerned ...

Diversified Trend Trading Approach

maybe your wife has a point???

Diversified Trend Trading Approach

trade without spread “orders” hello, trade without spread orders: what is it exactly? thanks

Atom8 Discussion

typo: price should be 1.604 sorry, I don't trade stocks as I have plenty of other instruments to choose from. I rather trade the indices like the Nasdaq100. I like my life easy...... it trends up for 5-9 years and busts in 1-2 years and start all ...

Position Trading - F it, lets start a thread

hi verv, planning to short EUR/USD......after coming down all the way from 1.64 over the years, do you think there is a lot of life left going down even further? I know you`re looking for a home-run and not looking for 500 pips, so how much lower ...

Position Trading - F it, lets start a thread

hello verv, if you would like to trade more commodities, you might like FXChoice. they accept US residents and there is a thread here on FF about them. they let you trade other cfd`s not offered by Oanda like coffee and cocoa. you didn`t get into ...

Position Trading - F it, lets start a thread

hello verv, can understand your frustration if you are a long-term trader. would you be able to adapt to a changing market and trade the shorter-term trend trading or range trading on the daily chart? as in: go long near bottom or go short near top ...

Position Trading - F it, lets start a thread