success 60-70pips — Positive trade shown with movement close to 1.5atr - pretty darn close exit! A caveat - the fast stochastics picks up quicker movements unlike slow stochs but risk earlier entry and so has to be cost averaged usually by 4 ...

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trades — Cool runnings - pretty good thread, seems to be a real decent guy with very good discipline. results like that are common in g/y once they find a successful strategy. i've seen similar results for greg in his thread "my gbpjpy trade ...

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Finally the 70pip gain! — Now that the trend is confidently up, day trend included, trade works like a charm. 70 pip gain from the entry on stochastic low and momentum turn around. Nice. Did a complete reanalysis of past trades for the month ...

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surprising loss — the day trend was a strong down trend which pitched on the floor around 141 and moved upwards rather quickly. missed the limit by 40pips. There doesn't seem to be reasons as to why the trend didn't deliver except for the fact ...

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pip gain calculation — moving pip gain to an arbitrary 100 wasn't such a good idea. a more appropriate way would be to go 1.5atr(close to 100pips with current volatility) FROM the pivot point (where the sellers or buyers lose steam - not the ...

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250 pip loss — Got in at 141.5 and exited at 144 when the trend went the otherway. Unexpected breakout from range top. Fine-tuning strategy to use both calculated trend using stochastics, floors, ceilings AND THEN bullet-proofing it with ...

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Changing strategy — The issue with current strategy is that it gives a good idea about the range trading style of trading. However there are limitation of use. The strategy is hinged on the fact that there is an underlying trend. However there ...

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Winner 500 pipper — Finally found a way to adjust to trend reversals such as this one!! A successful trade (long) after a major trend reversal. An unsustained breakout below 130 followed by a breakthrough back to the top accross 130 provided ...

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Trend — Getting into the weekly trend is both a winner and a cusion against a bad trade to heal itself. Got into a sell position yesterday (against the trend) at 125.6 and lost a 100pips. The only issue was the trend - all other indicators ...

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trend is back up — it's happening, just took a while that is all. made my profits (exited at 125 though - made a 100+pips) after 3 long days of waiting. missed a lot of other opportunities to trade the intermediate runs though. wiser ...

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dragging — reversal is dragging its feet. underestimated the under lying long term trend strength. trend is changing upwards but still hanging on to a few downward thrusts. for early next week, trading down (short) even with momentum & long ...

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Upward trend ahoy! — The candlestick on 21st Jan - g/y, is called a hammer. The g/y has been trending down so far after breaking through 130 support. It has been showing many signs of trending up last few hrs - more than i could write below. ...

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Things went hay wire with me too! — My trades started going wrong the minute i went live. almost got 80% wiped out. Took a while to get back on my feet and figured out where the momentum is going. The hard part always is figuring out the ...

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300 pip loss — That was a loss or what! Guess the trend is changing. Waitin out of trading until trend stabilizes.

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moved stops — Ceiling max calculation needed to be changed in the last minute. The current ceiling is 134 and places the stop at 1/2 atr above which is 135.5. Changed exits to S2 - from action forex standard pivots -to 130.41

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Trade entry — Stop limit extented slightly by 50 pips until, cell phone alerts could be established. Stop is at 134.5. Loss and Gain potential of 300 pips each. Exit point using S3 - from Action forex standard pivots (weekly)

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Have a good new year'09 — All - Wish you all a Nice start into the new year '09! Sree

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cell alerts — Nice trades Greg! i am trying to go live today ~ So, how do you get those cell phone price alerts again? Which web site to use? Thanks - Sree

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500pips gain — exited on 132 on last trade. Looks like another setup developing with breakthrough to the lower of 130 or below. Planning reentry (short) around 131.5 w/ stop around 140

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Trade Shown — Trade Shown - possible breakout in progress

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