1st off,, do you have a news feed of any type? i.e. bloomberg,, TTN,, etc. Trading news is tough and almost imposible to do anymore.

Had the exact same problem after i hit + 7 or 8% in my account. Fast as lightning as long as your loosing!!

RIGHT NOW running the martingale is financial suicide. give the markets a month or two to calm down. The most recent runs on even the eurusd with no significant retracement will kill that system.. hanover referred to it as a death trade ,,, ya 95% ...

Sidenote** — Trading news spike on or during eco releases is harder than it used to be. Brokers are doing things like widning out spreads and in some cases will not execute market orders during announcement time. I have found it to be more ...

Oh,, the question,, a book called "The Secrets of Economic Indicators" by Bernard Baumohl is a great book that gets into details of the report components and what they may mean for the economy.

I have a strat for trading during NFP Release — My strategy for trading the NFP release nowdays is basically this, i get up out of my chair,, go to the bathroom, mabey make a sandwich or go get a cup of coffee, come back at about 9am est and ...

Didnt mean to "Thread Jack" — Mr Walker, my appologies,, simply stating that if you work long hours as most people in here you may drink coffee,, and i would rather drink 1 cup instead of 8 to 10 (a pot). just me,, didnt mean to Jack ...

Trader,,, i took a different approach, i have an IB with "my broker" for myself and the couple of guys i frequent for advice, there are no additional commission fees (2 on eurusd 3 on gbpusd 2 on usdjpy and 3 on usdchf)and collectively we have more ...

I started trading cuz i was tired of peoples crap in the first place — Ok,, ive had 2 pm's so far that basically tell me im full of S### and im not using the indicators im posting. Not only am i not using those indicators but i cannot possibly ...

Ranger Coffee — Speaking of Coffee,, I have a friend that figured out how to increase the caffeine content of high quality coffee beans,, kind of like drinking a whole pot of coffee in one cup,,, cuts down on the urinary flow ,,,, he sells ...

i thought thats why we were all trading ,,, for tha ===>( o )( o )

T & A All Day,,, You must mean that you sit around and Sip Tall Boys and eat Apples all day??,,

I use this indicator on a 4 hr and daily for a quick visual. Like BigMac,, i mean Bemac said a Trendline along with a long term Fibo is the way to go if you want to nail it down. I use a period of 36 and a method of 0 for the ema and you can have it ...

Too Clean Not to Post — This was The EURUSD move that happened earlier this morning up to just under 5500. This was perfect, nice clean and easy to trade,, We closed this one out for +62 pips. Could have stayed in longer but i didnt want to ...

Finished Counter Trend Trae at +44 — I May have taken an exit on this one too soon, We shall see

Counter Trend Trade Taken Small — March 10th Counter Trend Trade,, Break on the 1 hour with a decent daily Sell Indication

Lucidlamp, Your the man,, i had no idea, will know how to fix mine next time!!!!

did you make sure to check "allow dll imports" in the "common" tab in the indicator properties box,, when you dragged and dropped

thats a bad tick,, ,ive had that problem before and i usually give my broker time to get it out of there demo db (im assuming your running a demo) and reload my platform. I havent figured out how to get rid of them without doing that,, it really ...

I had converstions with a guy who managed more than 1mil in funds, he exclusively used the bill williams fractal system. His biggest problem was the exits, he seemed to take his profits too soon and let some of his bad trades go to far,, he ...