I read a story about some noob Chicago Pit trader back in the day who's mentor asked him this after watching him constantly checking price on a trade they were holding for days/weeks. The mentor asked something like, "When you plant a seed do you ...

Refusing to Monitor the Trade?

I don't know about that. There's a lot more to success than just mentality. You can be positive, knowledgeable, and disciplined all you want and doesn't mean you can trade well.

The Reason why 95% Traders fail

Percentages are always relative to sample size and period. I mean, on a long enough time line we all have a mortality rate of 0%. Likewise, you need to think about time-line when talking trader success rates.

The Reason why 95% Traders fail

Another option... (pun intended ) is url . It's a gaming site based on actual markets. I've been doing this game called up/down which is basically binary options. pretty fun. Latest entries in my journal goes into it a bit more. url

Binary Forex Trading Journal

This umoo stuff is pretty addicting. I should stop. lol The up/down game I've been playing is basically binary options. You put up an amount and the payout is fixed. Currently, the eurusd pays out bet + 69% on a win and 15% of bet on a loss. Options ...

Cycle Trading

30 min. chart. I had a lot of triggers yesterday as price dropped. When I'm juggling knives I go very small on the lot size. The square below wasn't adjusted when I set the orders or else I would have waited. The x shows where I closed all of that ...

Cycle Trading

Attached is a chart to show where/when I shorted. You only need to be up 1 pip for the bet to be considered a win. The magenta line is the line I needed to be below and the x is the expiration bar. You can see that the square nailed it, but my first ...

Cycle Trading

damn. I was off by 1 freaking minute for cashing in on $45 to hit my $100 on the day. Ended up in the black still, but for only $3 or so. lol Looks like I need to drop to the 1 min charts now with my crystal ball. Man... it was probably even less ...

Cycle Trading

Anybody play over at url Fun stuff. I just won $60 on a couple of bets playing this stupid UP/DOWN game. All you have to do is bet whether price will be up or down when time expires from whatever price is at when you place your bet. Being a "time" ...

Cycle Trading

The power of the parabola is something I"ve been doing for years thanks to our buddy soso. The mirror action is pretty uncanny. Most of the time it isn't exact in terms of magnitude, but it is in terms of timing. Some older charts. These are ...

Sine Wave and Channel Reflection, Action/Reaction putting it all together

I haven't read the whole thread, but I'm in your camp when it comes to making 100% or greater per month. Doesn't require 400:1 or stupid leverage. Just takes execution, patience, and discipline. I think it's like any personal endeavor. Most ...

100% Monthly consistently

Attached are my forks. This is also the basis for a lot of other stuff which contains price and provides a lot of triangulating price-time. Some info of that in my old blog here: url

Sine Wave and Channel Reflection, Action/Reaction putting it all together

My goal is to fill in my forks with this: image

Sine Wave and Channel Reflection, Action/Reaction putting it all together

Nice charts, A. The whole reflective property thing is something you've seen my take on quite a bit in the ol' PF. One of the things I've been trying to solve is trying to determine when the angle of observation changes. I'm also thinking of trying ...

Sine Wave and Channel Reflection, Action/Reaction putting it all together

Thanks, SPro. It's funny when the philosophical stuff comes up. I get asked a lot about what books or resources people can go to learn a lot of the stuff I use. But to be honest, I've never really learned much from any of the ones I have other than ...

Cycle Trading

It's 3:35 AM and I'm still wired from playing hockey tonight. I've got a lot on my mind lately, so I'm making a journal type journal entry. Earlier today, I closed out some pips and figured out some numbers on my account since I started trading ...

Cycle Trading

I don't want to hijack the thread, but you raise good questions jam*3. I do have some answers, however, I'm going to hold those a little close to the vest for now. But I'd love to get into it with you sometime since it looks like you "get it".

Sine Wave and Channel Reflection, Action/Reaction putting it all together

Does it require the screen to actually be open?

easiest way to get realtime fx feed data?

The problem with DDE is trying to capture historical data.

easiest way to get realtime fx feed data?

I'm with ibfx currently. No complaints at all. I"ve scalped with success and traded higher frames with success. I don't care that they take the other side of my trade as most retailers do anyway. As far as reqoutes go, I've never been with a broker ...

Interbank FX. The most reliable MT4 broker around?