Maybe its just me, but after 3 weeks of losses (a sure sign of a ranging market) in a row, surely somebody would alter something or stay out of the market until volatility is there again and trade other systems in the meantime.

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I think everybody is hard at work to change SL`s, TP`s, position size etc. to not only survive this ranging period, but to even make money in it instead of just waiting for next week. or so they should if they want to thrive in this business.

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found this nugget somewhere on FF, but cannot remember where.......will delete if wanted. buy when price goes up and when price goes down, only your last trade will be at a loss......

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I realize what you`re saying Pharoah, but I`m still curious how many losses you can have in a row in the long term with 40% wins, 30% BE and 30% losses.......

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hi FXLab, six losing trades in a row: is that if only 1 trade a week is taken? if not, how many losing trades if only 1 trade a week is taken? what would be the maximum losing streak over 100,00 trades if only 1 trade per week with 40% wins? do you ...

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samer, by looking at your chart the last red candle was closed before taking the short on the last green candle and being stopped out. so I dont understand what you mean???

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hi feb, is there a statistical reason why you take the body of the candle but not the wicks? thanks for your reply

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Aces` new system — Aces` new system: now most of us are on the sidelines until next week, has anybody tried to have a go to crack the new system that is still veiled in mystery? it would be fun to puzzle it out...... to me it looks like Ace is ...

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Ace, I can see you`re getting really stressed about the sellers of your system having to check on them daily and here are some of my thoughts. 1. you let them be.....yes they`ll make some money initially but after having a volatile market for more ...

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yen, the key word here is INITIAL stop loss, meaning that after the entry and going up say 30 pips, it might retrace 58 pips into the box, going up through your entry price again, stalls say 18 pips above your entry price and crashes down through ...

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could you explain the jumping stop? thanks

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yeah, you`re right.......people have to realize it wont stay like this forever till the day they die.

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I`ll worry about next year when next year comes. I believe in trading now with parameters that fit our trading now and adapt to a change in the dynamics of the market when they come. That`s why I said earlier in a post that people who dont put in ...

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TP4: after we find the best SL for the current trading, I feel we should then start to pay attention to the profit taking. imo we leave far too much profit on the table if price goes up/down 1000 pips and we leave the battle field with 550 pips. is ...

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Trailing stop loss For the period 3 May - 9 August I had a look at the TSL`s to see if the profit would be higher if we followed a entry with a TSL of 100/125/150/175/200/225/250. At the end of the period, the 100 TSL was the best, but still trailed ...

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yen, the maximum stop loss of 58 pips in that period is the initial stop loss for every first trade taken in that period, be it winner, BE or loser in the end. if you have time on your hands, you could even have a stop loss of 30 pips and re-enter a ...

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I got figures for the stop loss here for the period 22Feb till 14 June 2009, only on the first trade each week. the highest retracement into the box was 58 pips in that period, but you have to add your spread if you add the spread to your box. ...

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I think to get an understanding what Steve is talking about, the order flow needs to separated according to Steves` first post: Orders: who places them - why they place them - where they place them You got to know your adversaries inside out, know ...

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hi folks, just found this thread and its sure vey interesting. in my opinion what Steve is referring to in the above quote is that he is able to fill in part of the future graphics (the white space on the chart)........so in other words if there`s a ...

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[quote=yen44x;3004871]Actually, we can choose a "partial" loss by adopting the suggestion to set the SL at 50% of the box. I'm leaning more toward a SL of 60-65% of the box, but even that would still improve R:R considerably./quote] why dont you do ...

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