my E/U trade held, took my 1/2 off at 1:1 & it's in a free trade to the moon i suppose ... jumped back in the G/U & also hit 1:1 so, not essentially a free trade as i already suffered a loss on that on earlier, but oh well. the swiss didn't hold ...

go live or bust ... diary of an fx live-trader-wannabe

my G/U dibs trade didn't hold (made a mistake on order entry for taking 1/2 profit at 1:1 anyway) in the meantime, i took a TL break for 1.3% using 50 level as a profit target (instead of trailing stop behind every 50% of the retracement range.

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trying some DIBS trades tonite ... E/U, G/U, U/CH ...

go live or bust ... diary of an fx live-trader-wannabe

this week was kind of a dud. partly due to the volatile reactions by the market to every little thing ... managed to stay away from most of it and learn a little too. kept my promise NOT to trade on friday. my session net yesterday was 1.3%; weekly ...

go live or bust ... diary of an fx live-trader-wannabe

this break-out's dedicated to math ... ... (p.s. price is approaching yesterday's session high in 10-20 pips)

Trading setups around SR Zones

hope i didn't offend or just state the obvious. good trading tho. had another thought about this ... if i remember what it was, i'll PM you when i return.

Trading setups around SR Zones

my first response is the price until it forms a swing high/low, but that's not what you were after i suspect. in the alternative, try the MACD ... (i discovered this thru reading Phillip Nel's posts).

Looking for a pullback indicator

finished my trading session w/ 6 more trades (can you say over-traders-anonymous?) ... 1 pullback trade for a scratch, 1 TL break for 1.5% gain (i bailed b/c price started bouncing off 48MA & it was time to pack it in ...); the rest were 1-2-3 ...

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looks clear enuf. quick question. could you explain what you meant by "bear/bull" trap as it happened during your trade (or trade set-up)? here's my observation (my 2 cents worth & that's probably the fair value ... ) ... 1. market ran up from ...

Trading setups around SR Zones

traded myself into a hole earlier this evening. took one "pullback" after another that failed ... then i started a sort of revenge trading adventure where i just figured the more trades i took the more the odds would go in my favor ... eventually ...

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while i was managing the above trade, my boyfriend gave me something to chew on tonite (while he was watching some fabulous travel show about cuba ...) and it had nothing to do w/ MACD, ADX, ATR ... S/R ... pivots, fibs, confluence, 4hr charts, ...

go live or bust ... diary of an fx live-trader-wannabe

took a great trade off a pullback from price action that formed support but broke below it (DBHLC) ... trailed my stop ... did everything according to plan, but oanda stopped me out by about 0.4 pips after i trailed my SL to b/e once i achieved my ...

go live or bust ... diary of an fx live-trader-wannabe

thank you so much for this ... is there anyway that you could convert this to a PDF? i am limited in my ability to open this file (i can download, but only without the charts ...) ...

Trading setups around SR Zones

IMO, it's the only way to do it ... or ... you might find yourself spinning in circles ... ? just food for thought ...

Trading setups around SR Zones

good i took a break from it all. rate announcement finally arrived. unfortunately we still have the BOJ conference to wait on. im just glad i wasn't here to get into anymore trouble over it as the market is still sideways.

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... and shorted gold. see if we can get to the daily support line for now. oanda's spreads at the time were 200 & now 70, so im about 130 pips behind the game at this point.

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... took an impulse trade shortly thereafter ... the loss was not as frustrating as not having the discipline to stick to the plan & stay out of the market. 1% loss making it a net 1.2% loss for the day instead of a 0.2% loss for the day. sometimes ...

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the question was posed within Phillip Nel's 5 Min Intraday Thread (and the title of the post was "5 min trading system") ... so, naturally i assumed the question was in reference to such and not asked to invoke a general discussion about moving ...

5Min Intraday System

the 50MA shows you the trend right off your 5min chart. the slope of the 50MA tells you the strength (trending or flat/ranging market).

5Min Intraday System

tried one more trade for the day. was a scratch (could have bailed on it & taken a bit of profit, but my goal for the next few weeks is to stick to the rules to master the art of practicing disciplined trading ... i.e., for instance, trade w/o ...

go live or bust ... diary of an fx live-trader-wannabe