but was actually against a recent crossover to the short side w/ the weekly & monthly MA's ... loooooooooserrrrr 2% funny, when i was entering this order my instincts were saying dont bother. then i looked at it later, when it hadn't triggered & ...

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

pin at pullback ... scratch (followed the rules) ...

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

more to ponder ...

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

pin at p/b. i saw it and didn't even hesitate to say go. (that's a neat feeling in and of itself actually) ... 0.4% gain (should have been 0.7%, but operator error re not having flawless execution the problem here ... see written journal for how i ...

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you crack me up. i love those guys!! i like the catchy phone numbers in commercials TOO ... [singing can be heard] ... 8-hundred-5-8-8-2... 3... hundred ... EM-PIRE!!!! we're going to be reeeeeeee-ch!

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can i interest you in the potential for a little partnership ala future patent pending meets infomercial business meets venture capitalist make-millions-by-next week proposition? (later to be sold at K-Mart as the "As Seen on T.V. Product?") ... ...

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out for a net 1.1% gain which covers the prior loss of exactly the same amt. w/o the mistake i would be up 2.3% instead of only 1.2% for the week. lesson learned? i dont know yet.

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im locked in for the first 1:1 ...

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

pullback trade ended in a full loss ... put it under the grinder uber-overly-hard-on-myself scrutiny & nothing i can find in my rules to call this anything other than what it is ... a loss that happens. -2% then, i took a TL break off an BUOB ... a ...

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

you're an early riser ... this helps to explain it definitely ... does it factor into your decision making in any way when trading these days? best regards ... [EDIT] ... i was studying those power bars ... can those be treated as power bars if they ...

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dbl IB which was also a TBH at TL. took the break. followed the rules. net 0.6% gain. max dist. analysis 28.6; my system avg pips 17 pips.

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i just finished downloading & installing the custom MACD from earlier posts. there is this number on the right hand side that constantly changes. could someone help me understand what it's indicating? i searched thru the thread & couldn't find an ...

5Min Intraday System

at grinder's house! she followed the rules ... had that same twitchy feeling again & reached for the mouse, but i didn't do it ... yahoooooo saw a pin beyond the pullback, but it created a swing and the MA's all lined up along w/ the 48hr ...

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yup. that's where it ended. 33.3 pips or 3.2% versus the 2.8% i made on the 2 trades total. so, the difference of 0.4% covers one small loss that will inevitably be taken in later trades. do this 10 times, that's 4%, 20, 8% ... 100 times 40% ... ...

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daily scalps potential for 2pm EURUSD ... hammer w/ the trend (yesterday's didn't trigger) USDCHF ... doji star pin or something like that w/ the trend; like this better than yesterday, cuz it seems to have created a support line where the market ...

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

nope. probably just going to repeat of sunday & throw in some mistakes too. snap out of it! did find that pullback to jump from. was managing the trade according to plan .... until it stalled in the black at 23 pips & my mind got that fuzzy feeling ...

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today might be flawed execution day ... who knows. TL break after BUOB off the break of it and an IB ... the RR was over 20 pips so i wasn't comfortable w/ that. price shot up about 7 or 8 pips so i went to move my SL to b/e based on a small range ...

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you get told there is no holy grail system to trading the forex ... and you finally believe them.

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ummm, okay ... now i've gone and taken a revenge trade. sooooo im done. need to take my revenge on my bf on wii golf instead ... good nite cruel market ...

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[EDIT] okay i forgot to do my max distance analysis ... oh boy ... chin up ... the max distance average for the day is 26.7. my system was 18.6 pips ...

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