Personally I trade USD/JPY exclusively. I don't know (or care) if it's the best one, but it works real well for me. I have found that focusing my study on just one pair has given me a deeper understanding of how it moves. I'm probably missing out on ...

How do you trade news?

I have been trading like this for the last several weeks with excellent results, but I'm curious if this is a temporary phenomenon due to the indecision over the Feds future tightening agenda, or if it occurs consistently. Have you noticed if the ...

How do you trade news?

Seems like a big part of the problem you are having is that you don't have enough money to trade with. If using a bigger stop loss will put you outside your 1-2% risk level, then you either need more money, or you need a broker with better ...

newbee ...

Mattman, you don’t need a system. That may sound counter to what you have heard or read, but the truth is, you wouldn’t know what to do with one if you had it. Let me give a little advice. Pick a pair, any pair. No pair is better then any other, but ...

Newbie help

An unwinding of the carry trade would absolutely be bullish for the yen. Personally I think too much is being made of this "end of quantitative easing" by BOJ. Everybody and their mothers are looking for BOJ to start raising rates so they can buy ...

Central Banks Watch

All I can say is... wow. That was about the most interesting thing I have ever read. You hear about people trading at that level, and the sort of issues they deal with in the wizards books, but somehow hearing it from a real person makes it so much ...

Maximum amount you would keep with your broker?

I think a significant part of why so many successful traders have degrees is because the degree helps them make more J.O.B. money to start trading with.

Graduates vs non-grads in trading

25p /day on 5min? I'm ecstatic when I net 25p a MONTH on 5 min. You either need ALOT more money to work with, or a MUCH lower cost of living. Preferably both...

which way it`s easier to make 500p a moth!!!

Just in case you can't find the previous thread: Yes, it is absolutly worth the money and effort. Once you have a 2-3 monitor setup there is no going back. 2 monitors is cake to setup. Just get yourself any decent nvidia geforce card that has both ...

Show your workstation!

This is a really difficult concept to explain, but that $99mil never really exists. There is only a cash differential settlement. I think an example would work better... I make a buy order for $1000, the price changes by ten dollars, and the ...

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