I'm doing my 11:30 recap and I see some good opportunities wasted. I have no reason why I missed these trades. I may was doing something else like typing. Thats unacceptable! Mediocrity alert going off ! I'm not trying to excuse myself and blaming ...

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You are probably right Davit. I'm writing 3 threads now. Things that I find very interesting, and I love doing it. But I guess it is impacting my concentration. When the market is predictable thats ok, but specially this week which I'm having some ...

From mediocrity to mastery

Another tough day so far. I'm up but barely, +5 in 3 trades. I guess I'm posting too much on threads and losing my focus . I have to correct that. Trading sometimes can become tedious and keeping your focus for hours is not easy. I have a tendency ...

From mediocrity to mastery

Ok since nobody is showing interest on the interview I guess it will be pointless to publish here later. I will keep it for my own instruction.

Billion Dollar Day video analysis

Hey guys. Thats for everybody following the thread. I managed to book a interview with William Wong ! If you have any questions you want to ask post it here and I will take the best ones. I can't ask the guy a million questions so I will take the ...

Billion Dollar Day video analysis

Not my day! I was able to get 4 pips back and that it. Looking back I see that I did not close my losers fast enough. That was basically my mistake. Not that I would end up positive today but break even was a possibility. Well tomorrow is another ...

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Next thing we see at 1:02 minutes is Barclay's positions screen. Based on the pic below we can see that they are 74 million and change short. There is market positions, short date projection , forward projection etc There is a break down of the ...

Billion Dollar Day video analysis

0:41 into the video BBC comment about Barclay making over 100M on forex speculation in 1984. The camera cuts to the clock on the wall it is 8:32 AM in London. It is 1:30 PM where William is. Than the camera cut to Richard. At the start of the day ...

Billion Dollar Day video analysis

Not a good day so far. I'm down 26 pips in 3 trades. I keep getting positioned right to good moves but price is hanging on too long at support. So I start to second guess myself and closing my positions. The result is very small gains and relative ...

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Ok, part C starts showing Barclay's tradingstation all traders already on their trading desk. At 0:07 min, one of the traders is reading something about the pound "leading the way down", Richard Hill seems interested on the approach and asks who ...

Billion Dollar Day video analysis

Billion Dollar day part C Ok so lets keep going on our study. We are half way into the documentary and now with the London session starting and at Barclay's trading room he data will start to pour. video

Billion Dollar Day video analysis

12:00 PM and I'm done for the day. I still can't believe I lost the move up! Looking back I see my position within the acceptable draw down range. What made me bail out was that price stayed too long around 1.3366. Usually when price has to go, it ...

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Ok, before we go to part C of the video, lets see what price data we have so far. Later this will be very important to reconstruct how price moved during 06-04-1985 8:00 AM Kong kong local time. 1.2835 1.2840 From William"s 1.2845 trading room ...

Billion Dollar Day video analysis

There we go, I lost the whole move! I was so well positioned for it. What a shame. I should be at 40 plus pips now. Anyways I'm up 17 or so which I'm gratefull. Better to be wishing to be in a trade than wishing not being on it.

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Ok I was very well positioned at 1.3366 but I bailed out because the took too long to develop and I was afraid of a nasty spike down. Got +1 pip on the trade

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Just close another trade for +9. Not a easy day, I'm up 15 but I could easily be down the same amount or even more

From mediocrity to mastery

Woke up a little late today, around 3:30 AM. So far I'm up 6 pips in 2 trades. I did experienced bigger draw downs compared to profits which is dangerous. Mondays are not my best days. The market is a little choppy in my opinion but I misinterpreted ...

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Ok now that William Wong was cot "cheating" looking at charts we can move on Around 5:30 min BBC gives some personal information about Richard Hill. He is 31 years old, he started right at the bottom ( whatever the bottom is) at Barclay and he ...

Billion Dollar Day video analysis

It is different to each one here Skenobi, the way people will regard and use the new information Platypus brought in. In my case I'm doing this study to improve more than to prove anything. But I found awesome that I can know for sure now that ...

Billion Dollar Day video analysis

Interesting idea Steve. Thanks!

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