You seem to forget that most of the time the NFP effect is pretty much INSTANT. The occasion you had presented was UNUSUAL. If one were to place a straddle on an NFP release with stop orders the outcome is guarenteed to be GRIM. i.e you will be ...

monthly gbp/usd system

Any chance for some background information?

Forex Reversals

I agree

james16 Chart Thread

AUDCAD Playing out — Here's the update on yesterday's setup, shorted it at previous week's 50% as that's where it wanted to stop and corresponded with a resistance. Looking to hold this for a while to around the .8800's if possible. On friday ...

james16 Chart Thread

Beautiful. Great job mbqb11.

james16 Chart Thread

AUDCAD - TBHLC — CAD made a bit of a suprise today by gaining strength after various announcements and by CTA's buying (at least, alledgedly as reported by TTN), and it seems it may continue to gain across the board in the short term. Can be ...

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Will it hit 1.6 in 3 months, 21 days and 43 minutes?

Will Eurusd Break Into 1.5000 This Week ?

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Soul mate. I am the perfect system.

Survey on The Perfect System

Quite a few software/connectivity issues with IB as of late. Considering a move to somewhere else at the moment. Account valuation issues also.. somehow my account was momentarily frozen and an extra 50,000USD appeared in it, then disappeared after ...

Interactive brokers or hotspot?

Paul Rotter — "q: there is a saying that every trader has to completely blow up his account at least once before he can become successful. what did you learn out of it? a: like I earlier said, my private account saw some bad times during my ...

The reason why 95% of new traders consistantly lose money

shayb — yeah thats a good one and it's a good pair to be long on. Interest positive pairs with a buy signals always increase probability for a good long trade.

james16 Chart Thread

shayb — Here's a great way to play pb's, with accuracy. It's how I do it anyway.

james16 Chart Thread

Yeah I didnt mean to sound aggressive..

james16 Chart Thread

Thanks, I'm pretty happy with it. BTW Zoopy you need to keep your ears closer to the ground to understand what is up with the trend and the chart has also had its say regarding potential downside risk..

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USD/CAD — I hope some of you got this on the 50%, I got it at 1.0045, a breakout of the BUOB will probably be good but with a large stop. I think this could be a great entry for a long term trade. Even though CAD news were CAD bullish, it ...

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As much as everyone claims to be impossible, irrational, or otherwise astronomical.

Expected returns from Forex

FTI: This is a BIG THANK YOU for the most valuable information ever to set foot on FF. I've been following the thread dilligently from the start and slowly attempted to apply it to my trading. Finally, it's starting to set in my mind. It's working. ...

Technical Analysis Fallacy

You are like one of those people that would sentence crazies in the middle ages to death by hanging because they said the world is round but it is obviously flat. You are sewing ideas in other people's minds when you post here, so it is my duty to ...

The reason why 95% of new traders consistantly lose money

It's so sad that you are talking out of your arse. You need to get to know some traders personally that do this for a living, trading intraday. People do it. Most that do it don't define themselves as "intraday traders" they are just traders. They ...

The reason why 95% of new traders consistantly lose money