CHFJPY (IB) tuesday — entry 8790; SL 9067 10159 units makes 1 pip

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GBPJPY (IB) tuesday — entry 17518; SL 18275 10152 units makes 1 pip

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EURJPY (IB) tuesday — entry 13601; SL 14162 10152 units make 1 pip

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USDJPY (IB) tuesday — entry 10079; SL 10355 10164 units makes 1 pip

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NZDUSD (IB) tuesday — entry 6149; SL 6452 10000 units = 1 pip

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EURAUD tuesday (IB) — entry 9423; SL 8395 13999 units make 1 pip

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AUDUSD tuesday — DIBS-style trade entry 6968; SL 7397; time stop 10000 units makes 1 pip

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EURCHF tuesday — PB criteria: 1. close beyond 25% 2. open price beyond 50% 3. nose not beyond 50% ... 4. bounced thru resistance, but did not close below 4 is missing t/f must be traded w/ the sentiment ... sentiment is bearish, PB is bearish, ...

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5 min papertrades — papertraded these as i reviewed the daily charts ... 1. RP which traveled 40 pips b/f stalling (regardless, im out at 10) 2. IB w/ the trend which traveled 20 pips b/f stalling --- and continuing (im out at 10)

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tuesday watchlist — EURUSD ... potential RP; price has to climb above 3667 b/f closing bell EURCHF ... bearish PB, might be garbage, but if it closes below 5488, could be interesting (b/c in direction of the sentiment & i am bullish CHF in the ...

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tuesday pairs overview — EURUSD ... potential RP; price has to climb above 3667 b/f closing bell GBPUSD ... a little consolidation; no tradeable PA that i can see EURGBP ... just got kicked out of my IB trade (in profit), but no new PA that i ...

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profitable? — it's been 3 months ... aggregate starting balances (primary plus the IB subaccount) to the aggregate ending balances (at the end of 3 months) is technically profitable (i say "technically" due to the margin call fiasco). ...

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other EURUSD 5 min scalps — after dg signed on, we played around w/ 5 min strategy ... the 1st trade was off a PB-ish followed by IB, it went against me for a bit, but i hung in there (i was w/ the trend so what the heck) & it came around = 20 ...

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IB trailing stop update — all TSL's hit except for GBPCHF.

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update on margin called papertrades — EURAUD ... TSL hit GBPJPY ... TSL hit NZDUSD ... still trailing (entry 6529; TSL 6434) USDJPY ... TSL hit (fxdd only reached 10327, but oanda's platform says 10330 -- c'est la guerre avec oanda)

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EURCHF papertrade update — order was triggered ... trade is in red.

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nevermind ... im too many posts behind ...

james16 Chart Thread

could you give me the time on that PB so i could reference w/ my chart (different broker) ... thanks cheers & good trading

james16 Chart Thread

5 min trade missed — price action off mid-BB w/ the trend ... would have been an easy 10 pips.

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ryan-style trades — giving this a try on the EURUSD 5 minute charts. papertraded for the last few days & noticed the market has been trading quite nicely during the tokyo session (5-7pm PST) ... made out alright last night so throwing some on ...

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