best of luck to everyone. You are in the best market for strict auctions tests that has decent volatility and $$$. Although, try to trade the CL futures contract when you can.

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Orderflow is great and the explanations have been good here. BUT be aware orderflow needs to be used at certain times, at certain commercial levels, with market value and others OR its useless. 1 part of the pie.

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Most traders who have been doing it for years and failing can see the pivots of demand supply and can see liquidity pool targets. Auctioning of price is a simple concept that most after a few years can see. And guess what? these work 100% So why ...

Successful traders are very, very rare to find

Most traders who have been doing it for years and failing can see the pivots of demand supply and can see liquidity pool targets. Auctioning of price is a simple concept that most after a few years can see. And guess what? these work 100% So why ...

has anyone EVER seen a successful trader/trading system?

massive move!! so much accumulation overnight. 63.50 going to on futures.

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interesting

has anyone EVER seen a successful trader/trading system?

Lol true. Maybe not dog crap but compared to oil/gold/bonds. I just think retailers with smaller accounts have better chance on commodities than currencies.

has anyone EVER seen a successful trader/trading system?

Kind of true. I like you Mingary there is no lying in you. Currencies are dog crap. The only retailers making money in currencies are the already rich. If you have $10 million to blow and you trade extremes and get 5-10 pips here and there and ...

has anyone EVER seen a successful trader/trading system?

Us Oil is in?? us dollars usd goes down = oil is cheap = corps/instos/banks buy oil. does that mean WE the retail donkeys should buy Oil right now today? possibly IF other values of oil are bullish too OR IF the banks have completed there ...

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Yeah re Jan it should be ok as all major banks are back and working.

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Could be. Whats everyones thoughts on this? I have noticed first 2-3 weeks of January are a little weird. The auctions seem to float if that makes sense. Less directional, less deep tests and seems to always rise. Is that the JANUARY EFFECT?

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Exactly right. Great post. All these "tools" we get as retailers such as oscillators or the new orderflow you have to wonder why so readily available? The banks made them up years ago to get your money. Breakout trading?? wow. we actually fell for ...

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DECEMBER 6th id like to see back to 57.

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Nice 50c short. But if not for the weak USD this would be $1.50 lower. damn usd/strong euro. Everything else bearish.

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anyone short? here we go

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yeah got a nice long but was hoping it go higher (probably still will now im out). but the way price has come into insto levels here, its looking short. But will wait for us open for full contracts. Junk time now. Lets see us decision. if nothing ...

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Price leads Indicators Indicators DO NOT lead price Therefore using indicators is plain dumb. So so dumb. IF you traded the indicator using price as bias then youd make $$$.

Why do indicators not work/work? Why is Forex not truly random?

My Price action? I dont get what you mean by that. I said you need all 3 things 1PA 2volume 3deltas but I would include a few more things. Context is everything. Without context (PA and others) orderflow will trip you up as it gets manipulated in ...

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everything you need is in the price action / volume and deltas.

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