nevermind, they are back up now.

IBFX

question about Oanda FXTrade.. under the profit column does anyone know how to make it show profit in $ like it use to? it seems they changed it a couple of weeks ago to show profit in pips now.

oanda vs. ?

IBFX demo servers down right now?

IBFX

lol k

Silent Service Method

what? PA bounced off that area over 4x. i think that counts for something. and in fact i would say it bouncing off an area 4x is worth more than 1 good pinbar bouncing off it.

Silent Service Method

how does the AUD/NZD daily pinbar look? (lots of space to the left, swing high, at 61.8 fib)

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i also took a loss on this one (EUR/JPY daily). i thought the setup looked decent..

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jarro, tight stop loss or large stop loss isn't it all the same? you are risking 1-3% of your account each time. if you lose the trade you are hurt the same amount as any other trade.. (that is if you trade this way) or on trades like these do you ...

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whoa.. way too many lines on that chart

james16 Chart Thread

does oanda make money when we lose money? and vice versa? or they just make money off the spread regardless the outcome of our trade or is my question too simplified

How do retail forex brokers lose money when we win?

ah very nice use of the 1HR TF.

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agreed, i followed what Jim has been teaching all along and to me this was not an A+ setup (running into strong S/R zone and plus the look of the candle wasn't that great), therefore i did not take the trade. I am patiently waiting for the next ...

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hey CW, how does the pinbar on USD/JPY look? it's at a critical area (~100) the nose is not terribly long but it looks decent

Silent Service Method

how does the BEOB on CHF/JPY look?

james16 Chart Thread

you can pre empt all news announcements easily? then why are you here on FF? aren't you some multimillionaire? have you watched whipsaws that take out stops during news? now wonder you've only been a member since Jan 2009

james16 Chart Thread

i thought we were waiting for a breakout on USDCAD.. which happened after the FOMC announcement.. however that is like trading during news.. or you already had your short in place and it hit after the news was rels? what price was that? i was ...

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and what if after the FOMC the dollar went up instead of down? it would have broke thru resistance and thru your stop most likely none of us knew what the FOMC was going to do.. i think you just got lucky

james16 Chart Thread

how bout no indys? no macd, no nothing. pure bar charts

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re: EUR/JPY playing off weeklys after confirming a breakout you would still need a pretty large stop, no? and since the S/R zone is actually pretty large, how do you confirm a breakout? e.g. prices goes 10 pips below the "zone"? thanks

Silent Service Method

attached are definitions and pictures of setup of BEOB, BUOB, DBHLC, DBLHC, etc.. i found this on FF. it might have also been posted in this j16 thread I don't know.

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