Straddled him and picked up 20 pips. Now waiting for EUR/USD to break 1.2745

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I have to agree with DS, I still consider myself a newbie in Forex and there's no way one can expect to make a quick buck overnight here! You're gonna burn ALL the protrusions on your body - I mean ALL of them. Do what I did, read this forum (and ...

Can 100% per Month be Achieved?

Too true, too true! I executed a trade on a news event and posted my pips and lot size, then I was tempted to start a journal to explain my trades and where I started ($'s) and where I'm heading. I changed my mind . . . I discovered the reason why ...

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EURUSD

Northfinance is a good brokerage, no problems. I can vouch for their excellent customer service even as far as re-imbursing a traders account (eventhough technically it was his own stupidity). The only problem was with Friday's NFP when their ISP ...

North Finance any good broker?

I think you start trading live now, get in before the market crashes and you don't get a share of the $2 trillion per day - just kidding! But from the sound of your initial post, that's exactly what you're saying. The traders I encountered who ...

Lost...?

Now that's the Holy Grail of forex trading!

Tears And Laughter In Forex Trading

I remember as a kid at school our art teacher taught us about primary colours: red, yellow and blue. He told us how to make different colours, but it was only when he SHOWED us and we were allowed to experiment ourselves, then we understood and ...

Tears And Laughter In Forex Trading

Time is part of the investment — I think where many potential traders go wrong is that we forget that time is also part of the investment. When I was introduced to Forex it opened a whole new world to me. Reading (forums/business papers), ...

Tears And Laughter In Forex Trading

Yes, somebody traded the USD/CAD Read the news, listen to the radio, watch tele and you'll be informed. I see the parasite tendancy is increasing here. Lazy traders just smile and wave

Lets talk USDCAD

Forex is easy! I remember my very first trade, I went long, no SL, took 1 pip and earned over $10m in that trade . . . then I woke up

20 pips per day, is there anyone can help me?

No, no, no . . . tell me HOW to do it so that I can post MY account!

Lets talk USDCAD

You were right, 15 was too much, but nevertheless I picked up 3 pips. Account balance no @ $10 100,00. By the way, how do you post your account statment for all to view and comment?

Lets talk USDCAD

I'll straddle him 15 away and 10TP - I only need him to move 25 pips and I'll have my profit. I'll set my lot size @ 9.9, cuurent balance is $9900. I'm increasing my lot sizes exponentially as my account balance increases.

Lets talk USDCAD

Creating a new account or changing brokers?

Mt4 Error !!

Straddled him 15 away and 10 TP. Picked up 10 @ 7.9 lot size!

CAD Retail Sales m/m

Hope . . . strange thing, but no place for it in the market. But alas, it's only when the market kicks you to the curb that you acknowledge your misplaced hope took a beating. By the way, if you don't mind me asking, where did you start ($ initial ...

oh soooo close!

I straddled the EUR/USD instaed of GBP/USD - foolish. The EUR did nothing within the first 2 minutes, so closed both buy stop and sell stop. Nothing made, but more importantly, nothing lost.

Straddle trading EA

Normal market conditions the spread is 2 pips for EUR/USD. News volatility it increases to max 4 pips.

Feelings about CPI

Gotcha — Set my Buy Stop @ 1.2802 and TP @ 1.2820. Got 18 pips - trade filled - North Finance, no mess, no fuss.

Feelings about CPI