Thanks. It's two different skills though really. One is holding the trade (however you managed to place it) and the other is just being cold-blooded enough to just place it there. To me they are related, because I can't see how I'd have the ...

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You gotta admire the bastards - they really know how to stick to the plan.

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Quack, Quack

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How'd you get that way, if you don't mind my asking. Was it just practice, or doing some exercises for example, or something else? (I 've read various ones like doing coin toss trades on a tiny account, and just practicing taking the win/loss called ...

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Yeah most times you give up 5-10 pips that way, but most times I don't know the exact number where it's going to turn either - I just have a zone there anyway. If there's a daily/weekly/monthly mid/high/low there in the zone I give it more credence.

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5 m and 1 m. I look for a pattern confirming the direction I think it should go, right in the place where I think it should happen. On the 5M I try to get a tap back near the mid of the confirming bar/bars, and I'd rather see divergence too. On the ...

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I have the same for the ADR high, but I don't think it has much bearing on a Fed day.

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Everyone probably is. They do it so often. If they don't then Hatch and Gator will make money. Me, I can't bring myself to just place an order like they do without looking at the PA in the zone first.

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This is what I have. There's a monthly mid at 1284 that ought to hold for a good scalp if it gets there.

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Umm.... Waiting for the bastards to use the Fed to spike it above all those yummy stops and then sell it off? (especially if the Fed is wishy-washy about when the rate hike will be).

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Well, you can see clearly from that chart of the DXY that wide consolidations followed by big runs in the opposite direction have coincided with changes in which party was in control in the US - not immediately but over the long term. (This seems ...

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Well, if there's going to be a trend change because that is what its doing, you can see posted that there are big areas where it see-saws around in a big range after a new president is elected before it really gets going. Something to watch for if a ...

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Don't have the announcements, but here DXY compared to terms. Except for Reagan, who was a known quantity his second term, you can see there's this topping out/bottoming out consolidation, and then a big change each time

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Okay guys, I'm just going to throw this one out there and see what you think. The market is a discounting mechanism, as we all know, meaning that it anticipates the future. It seems that nothing should have changed in the longer tf fundamental ...

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Thanks! Will try it.

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Yeah I've tried the delete and refresh option. (I've fixed EURUSD that way in the past too.) The only thing I haven't tried is installing it in a new location. Was hoping to avoid that.... Thanks for the ideas, though.

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I did. I removed all the DXY history files but they kept coming back. I even went so far as to do a manual edit inside the history download and deleted all the records, but they just keep coming back messed up.

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No, just issues with the DXY. I was compiling an indicator that read volume, and using that chart to test on. But I made a mistake that hung MT4 and had to force shutdown. Since then my DXY feed has been messed up.

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Thanks!

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