March Trades Sort of a set and forget it. Probably the only way I can keep a public journal. image image image image image Nothing much to explain here. Net Gain for March.

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Here's the 4h view for Jan through May image Simply selling from the 1.0000 - 1.0050 area worked while buying from the bottom was less consistent.

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Scheduled this thread into my life. Decided I'm going to test 1 specific system on this thread at a time. I'm going to continue on with the recent one that brought on the string of losses. I intend to take this up until June. I have this theory that ...

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No such thing as realistic. Proper way to ask what you say your asking is what does everyone feel comfortable with making once you start trading for a living. If it's been done before, it can be done again. Some traders have friends in a bank and ...

What's a realistic annual return for a professional trader?

Something that stands out to me is that i see people (new and old) view trading their asset class in isolation. For example, trader A wants to trade currency and only cares about the pairs they are trading while trader b trades equities and only ...

Experience as a trader

Threw the jpy crosses in the mix last week for more trades and the losses piled up. Think i'll just leave those out for now and stick with the usd.

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In my box, there lay many jewels. Here are 2. image image

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A word on the Usd/Sek trade. image

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He trades oil using the same strategy he's outlined. Hasn't abandoned this way of trading, just moved over to oil futures with the same way of trading.

The 5 minute TF S&R trading system

BTW here's the basis for my directional ideas. image It's rather simple, if it's going up then i buy. If its going down, then i sell. Nothing new here, plenty of people all over ff, amazon, borders, ofta, bmt, et, nyc, usa, earth do the same thing.

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Well well well. Today's not a Good Lookin day. CADs playing flirty McDrawDown and it doesn't look like it's finished yet. SEK stopped out. Broke the low, i thought it was a good entry, market thought my stop was the better one. Go figure. NZD ...

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Heh, Since i got ignored i'll just show some example trades that i'm in right now. This is my funny money account btw. No targets and no stops. image image image All based off the daily trends. There are other trades as well, none are in draw ...

Ramblings of a Forex Junkie

The good ole trend trade. Whats your classification of a trend? I wouldn't say you suck at it, you just might be looking for the wrong thing. Generally i'm looking at daily closes and i look sparsely at recent data releases and try to keep up to ...

Ramblings of a Forex Junkie

You can literally follow the trail of crumbs left from this thread on how to find what he's talking about. He speaks of determining a mathematical formula to give proper guidance on calculating value to determine whats fake and whats not. (he's not ...

Counter-trend trading

Gotta check you at bobby vans sometime. I totally agree. Once eu sarted slowing down i made a move over to futures and started trading from a weekly perspective in forex. ES seems to be treating me well using the same ole 123 pullback on recent sr. ...

The 5 minute TF S&R trading system

As it pertains to Forex, these individuals are speaking of Tick Volume, not the volume that would would get from the futures market. Even if you were able to have all Forex volume aggregated into 1 feed, you wouldn't want it. What happens when Bank ...

Is anyone here an institutional trader?

If this is something that can be done then by all means, if the pay off exceeds the cost by an acceptable amount, go for it. But i'm particularly curious about those trades that do not have their hedges closed early as described by michaelpelly. ...

Hedging vs Stop Loss

Aside from broker position sizing restraints and any psychological benefits, since you're leaving the hedge on as the trade goes into profit, how is this any better than progressively closing 10-15% of your position at the same regular intervals? If ...

Hedging vs Stop Loss