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- Happyguy replied Feb 12, 2008
blek! ive had a lousy trading day put my stops too close! my calls were right- it was headed short but not before a small retrace that stopped me out. (i actually did this a couple of times too) I had a couple of small 10 pip victories but on the ...
- Happyguy replied Feb 11, 2008
definitely kinda hard to keep up with a journal while you scalp -posting my trades in a screencap form is most convenient -especially since im trading 15 mins now last night was great! while i should have been studying I noticed that the price of ...
- Happyguy replied Feb 9, 2008
its dumb to trade entirely price action it seems forex factor has nice news reports too but ive never known how to take them into account.
- Happyguy replied Feb 8, 2008
I wonder with the gdp/jpy If I placed an order for something small at any given time what are the odds that if i waited that my tp would be hit? geppy ranges so wildly it would almost impossible not to be hit unless you go long at the exact bottom ...
- Happyguy replied Feb 8, 2008
my eur/usd+gdp/usd trade would have worked but I set the sl way too low. otherwise if i hadn't put such tight stops it would have lost only minor on a few others. But i lost 50 pips on 6 pairs for a total loss of 300 pips, and I got fed up with the ...
- Happyguy replied Feb 3, 2008
orders place at 6pm sunday, not knowing any good tp/sr i arbitrarily set the tp and sl of all orders at 50tp and 50pt sl I traded mainly off of dailies this time, but wont put in any more trades untill next sunday. Potential risk: 300 pips, 12% max ...
- Happyguy replied Jan 8, 2008
bah i tried an oanda demo account and the software is awful, im going to have to find something that uses mt4. Im switchign servers hopefully this will correct my prob. trying to find an honest broker is hard, every one has something bad said about ...
- Happyguy replied Oct 31, 2007
would it be horribly rude to ask you what your current system(s) rules are now? im reading through steves posts with great interest, but for the sake of a needle in a haystack id thought id ask. im at about page 73 of the thread, but skipped to ...
- Happyguy replied Oct 28, 2007
ya so far ive been trying to jump out well before it hits support/resistance when its going against the trend. +using dailies so far (couple of weeks/ 4 trades) signals have been fairly robust. -1 bad trade i got out of at a 50 pip loss. -ill try ...
- Happyguy replied Sep 18, 2007
trick is its the first time ive been profitable in weeks. Basically its gambling i guess to say- hey itll probley at least go up by 13. I suppose I could use atr of smaller timeframes, or support/resistance of smaller timeframes to set conservative ...
- Happyguy replied Sep 12, 2007
how did you learn to analyze charts then mysticdriver? Though a system may not be necessary, everyone has as method. They must have some systematic way of understanding what is going on out there, and taking advantage of it.
- Happyguy replied Sep 5, 2007
keeping it simple? — url Why make all kinds of complicated systems? this one when backtested looks like it makes consistent pips with minimal drawdown. Sure it lags, and it misses alot of the movement, but it seems to make consistent profit ...
- Happyguy replied Sep 4, 2007
Update — Thanks again for all your thoughtful replies ---- Ok heres what im doing: 90% just me screwing around on my own/backtesting/etc. I threw out all my indictators... I had like 20 on each chart... getting kinda rediculous. Now I ask ...
- Happyguy replied Sep 3, 2007
This may be a little off the central forex topic, but are any of the other trading markets any easier to make money (and as much) on? Stocks, options, equities, futures, etc... I never really research into anything else. I noticed technical analysis ...
- Happyguy replied Sep 3, 2007
What kind of trader do you think you are/will be ricardo? Im really touched for the kind offer Bill, thats really above and beyond! You know lately I have been retracing the old forex education from when I started, going over it and finding new ...
- Happyguy replied Sep 3, 2007
one Idea that ive been reflecting on: money management- biggest thing that could have saved my demo account from going broke. Simple idea: 1c pips per every 100$ in your account. This means that 100 pips is 1$ (1% risk) --note that im pretty sure ...
- Happyguy replied Sep 3, 2007
--you know on that note its always seemed like such a bad idea to use the robotic EAs to control your money. Idealistic to just have a computer do your work for you, but Ive never seen a ea that actually works to any degree. --fundies ( which are ...
- Happyguy replied Sep 2, 2007
Thanks bemac, actually ive found it extremely helpful to write the stuff down ive been thinking: getting them out of my head makes it a little more objective if that makes any sense. Ive been able to sort out alot of my own questions just by writing ...
- Happyguy replied Sep 2, 2007
Thanks ricardo, I never really noticed that 1kt thing before, but now i wonder how i never did notice it Come to think of it I prefer the idea of trading trends, but always thought they were something out in the ether. Ive never been able to tell ...
- Happyguy replied Sep 2, 2007
you know ive been reflecting alot about my mistakes and one important thing stuck out: i got bored. When I got tired of no good set ups, and being out of the market i took trades that were kind of dumb, or doubled my volume on wining trades only to ...