WEEKLY PERSPECTIVE = waiting for market to show the way: 2 weeks with lots of trading and lots of interest in both directions; bullish reversal pattern, but at a minor swing high triangle continue

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

here's the break out (followed by the correction) here's the confirmation waited for the pullback/retracement ... and i was in at 124.25-ish presently up 80 pips (why? see last few posts) ... trailing S/L (freerolling) and that's it.

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

TL break retracement/pullback entry long at 127.25-ish

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

... more support for my long bias.

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

From @DailyFXTeam Japan opposition leader Abe calls for unlimited easing until deflation ends. [Could be nice support for my long?]

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

there is something wrong with the math in this video. i am just not smart enough to articulate why. :-| url

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

nothing happening today in the market. as i continue to procrastinate from either doing some yoga or resuming a very large project for the J.O.B., i came across another brilliant article by chris hedges ... url did spend time reviewing the trades ...

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

4-hour not showing me anything but short for the time being. There will be a correction here, but there's no way of knowing how far it will retrace. If it reverses (on this timeframe), I will have opportunity for my long trade. Nothing but the same ...

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

Double top BEOB Nice indication of market gearing up for short trend Price action heading right back into support zone; and the market is just testing trend line of support. Still see nothing here that gives me confidence to enter my long trade.

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

Weekly has some clear signals and some unclear signals: Double bottom Couldn't make a lower, low Into major support zone ... up we go. 4. Repeat the pattern (also makes another higher low than at 2) 5. Not a strong indicator of a long trend 6. The ...

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

... it's obvious what's happening here; however, nothing is to be assumed, but for now, i'm leary about shorting into the bottom of the market (although, i sometimes screw that one up).

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

I am going to see if I have any discipline for resuming journaling about my trading adventures. Have found myself stubbornly fixated on facebook to distract me from a very boring and stressful job -- a distraction which ends up with me mostly ...

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

Thanks for asking. I've been preoccupied with having to put a dog I've had for 14 years to sleep. Good luck.

OANDA Discussion

Exactly.

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In essence, Oanda claims that I woke up and created a Take Profit Change Order (for a trade that was no longer in the terminal) at some random price of 132.654 AGAINST the direction of my trade when the market had moved only a few pips below that so ...

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I will be finding a new broker indeed. However, I did not OP to bitch; I actually wanted to know whether it was possible for my platform to be manipulated in the manner that was described (hoping to find some computer gurus lurking in the thread). ...

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This was the "why" ... Oanda: "[W]e cannot forward the entire log for security reasons..." [Note: I didn't ask for the "entire" log, I asked for a 10 minute window of time.]

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found it! (i was looking at the icon on the bottom.) you are correct. starts at 6/6/11.

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Under Advanced tab in the Java Control Panel, under "Debugging," "Enable Tracing" and "Enable Logging" were not checked. I have checked them now, but as for the EWT-Queue log, when I hit open and cut-and-paste, it only included events that were past ...

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Exactly, which is why I would not like to attribute to malice that which could be explained by negligence. Oanda is refusing to give me the log and is now excusing the glitch in ways that make absolutely no sense in light of how the transactions ...

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