The only thread you will ever need: FX Exposed!

With all respect,

if you think that what you see on my charts are normal indicators,
you have no clue.

FF

"There is no easy way to make money. "

But easier ways than forex trading.

"Your content is boring......"


If you think it is boring watching me doing live trades on the basis of causality, which work trade after trade,
then please go somewhere else where you are happer.

All the best and goodbye.

"Sorry, you are just another nameless guy from the internet."

For what is matters, no I am not. But your attitude will continue to bring you failure.

How do you come to the decision to make such statements, without knowing anything about me?

Your ignorance will be your DOWNFALL.

"How would I know it is all real?"

How would I be able to fake the info ticking live in front of you?

Over so many videos?

Why should I do it?

What benefit would it bring me?

Amazing.

"Stay motivated brother!
....my advice, don´t even waste a second in discussing with people that believe this game is "honest supply and demand"...
"Believe" is the keyword here.."

Thank you bro!

It is people like you I am doing this for.

And it is people like you I need to protect from IGNORANT CYNICS who lose day after day and then blow the next account, without having any clue what they are doing, why the prices chance and why they LOSE with any type of system.

I do NOT have time or patience for that particular breed.

No worries, after I took out some of these experts, I will exclusively concentrate on CONTENT ONLY.

Precisely because of the fact that I do not know anything about you, because you have provided no information about yoursellf. Which is the very definition of an anonym.
Bragging is no substitute for substance.

First of all, thanks FractalFreak for your effort and time in making this available to all of us. Secondly, I just read the entire thread and noticed that 90% of it is composed of banter and answers to the banter, with nothing to contribute to what we, users, expect in these forums.

Last but not least, after watching quite a few of your videos, it still escapes me how do you see the "accumulation of stops". Is it one of the indicators on the bottom of the screen? If so, what are all the other fancy lines for?

Don´t get me wrong, I am following with interest, but it is still very cryptic and the banter does not help. If you could explain more in detail, it will be great.

All the best,
M

Dear. this you attached link, I watch your video’s mostly talk about how smart money move to take out dumb money. More like trend trading, PA and follow momentum (the smart money) hope you can provide more detail tq.

Look if it seems impossible to you maybe it is a good idea to follow this thread.

FractalFreak

Lets assume that all your observations about the forex market are correct - market makers act as a cartel/oligopoly and chase liquidity (aka stops); brokers manipulate trades/trading environments (e.g. platform freezes); many indicators repaint/re-calculate and lag and so on. I am sure most of the experienced traders here would not have issues with any of those assumptions. The key question is how do you get an advantage or an edge in this type of environment?

For you, it appears that the first step, based on your analysis, is to adopt a market maker mindset - become a liquidity hunter and understand market structure from that perspective. This invariably leads to trying to understand where a significant number of stops (orders) are sitting - significant enough to attract the interest of the real market makers. Further, given dumb traders lose most of the time, then understanding their sentiment, and then trading contrary to it would also make sense.

To aid you in this process you have created some proprietary indicators (note: I don't really care whether you share them or not, given you are trying to get people to think differently about how they should be trading, and you are not presenting a trading system per-se - this is a trading discussion thread).

The indicator on the main chart seems to be an open orders indicator - similar to the one Oanda provides on its website. Is this correct? If correct, what data feed do you use - Oanda, another broker, or do you have access to an institutional feed?

The indicator in the lower chart windows appears to be an open positions indicator that shows retail trader sentiment - the percent of the herd that is long vs short - similar (but not the same) to what would find on Oanda, Dukascopy, DailyFx etc. Is this correct? If correct, again what data feed do you use?

If you could kindly answer my questions then I think we would all have a fuller understanding of your approach.

I do have more questions, but will hold off on those until after I get your response.

Cheers

I love this thread. FractalFreak, firstly thank you for your effort and intentions. You have made valid points and you really made me laugh when you posted the Department of Justice proof! Spot on! It seems you have undertaken the impossible task to educate the masses on the workings of the system.

I watched the video above and have also heard the SM and DM model of the market before. You do understand that if the masses have access to the frequency and volume of stop loss and buy orders the market will no longer have smart money. We will all be smart I am very intrigued that such indicators and data feeds already exist and are public but I do not know how reliable they are as this will create a conflict between SM and DM - SM will no longer be SM and DM will no longer be DM.

What you have described is the only way forward and my question to you is how much would it cost us to get that market transparency and become 'smart'? Which SM actor will give us reliable data?

Thank you.

Keep up the good work.

First, thank you so much FractalFreak for this thread. and since you have the goodwill, Please focus your energy on only helping people who already know and believe in what you say.
It is well known that brokers has indicators that shows SLs clusters/zones and this was available years ago. Besides, access to big individual players positions.

Second, I watched over 100 videos. All are similar, Starting with date and time and by just looking to the Dump money indicator and Stop loss/accumulation indicator, I can easly tell which is the right trade.

Question is, can you make a video showing how to trade profitably without these 2 indicators?

Because all I got using the available info to me, maybe using an indicator like better volume, determine the time and then use my regular stop loss (as dump retail trader) as TP? This is all I can get from your video since I have no access to these 2 indicators...
Please advise
Np. I agree with previous post.

The last 3 posts are fantastic - thanks to pakeha, bonZi and Ray9 !

If we are to learn, we can only get so much by watching videos from the past, which did thier job in my opinion. But to move forward we need to be taught, and then have access to the same tools FractalFreak is using to study the market and make decisions. It's the old teach a man to fish analogy. Right now we know there are fish but have to be given them. If I wanted to fish at this moment, I need FractalFreak to tell me where DM sentiment is and where the clusters of stops are.

I am willing to help others but i will let FraktalFreak do his work and jump in if i can, like fraktal said first let all the naysayers bleed out and then we can go into detail for the people who are interested and motivated.

"Somebody that makes money will never teach us his or her tricks"

You are VERY wrong.

The world is not as nasty as you think. At least I am not.
You do not know anything about me, who I am what I did and what I do,
but for what it matters, it is not your business neither.

The content should speak for itself. If you cannot see my goodwill and tedious work I deliver for free,
you cannot be helped.

Your IGNORANCE will be your DOWNFALL.

I am uploading my video answering the first content wise question right now.

Stay tuned.

"It's the old teach a man to fish analogy. Right now we know there are fish but have to be given them."

richt3,

you are absolutely right.....stay tuned for the video...

"Is it one of the indicators on the bottom of the screen?"

Hi Middleeastern,

no stops are on the y-Axis,
so on the right (the horizontal lines).

There are:
- short-term stops
- medium-term stops
- long-term stops

The histogram shows the positions.

Please watch the video I post soon. Thx

I have worked many years for major banks and for large corporate treasuries and I can confirm that traders do exchange information on big ticket market, stop loss and limit orders. But quite often these are only rumors and you never know if they are really true until the market has reached the execution level. Sometimes even the rumors create their own self-fullfilling prophecy with irrational effects. Big corporate treasuries, hedge funds and banks know about that, so they hide their (mental) stop loss and limit orders and they place them as market orders only. If the orders are big, they are planfully splitted into small pieces at different banks and brokers in order not to ruin their executions. Odd lot traders doesn't have access to these rumors and informations, but they have on the other side not the problem to move the market into a non-favorable direction by their own big tickets. Nevertheless it is probable that retail FX brokers share information with hedge funds and banks about limit and stop loss cluster of their odd-lot clients. But these informations are only valuable when the clusters are within reach for a market manipulation. The ranges might be 10-15 pips for major currencies and 30 - 40 pips for minors and exotics. The manipulation takes only place in small ranges. Larger ranges are out of reach for conspiracing professional big ticket traders. During my own trading as a odd lot trader I don't use limit orders at all and stoploss orders only in the format of disaster stop loss orders of e.g. 1000 pips.
Basically a odd lot trader is like a small mouse running through the legs of stampeding monster dinosaurs. But as everybody knows, dinosaurs have died and the mouse has survived as a race during the evolution. Although there is no chance as being a mouse to become a dinosaur, their is a fair chance to survive when focussing on the mouse' own strenghts which is basically our mobility: free trading direction (buy or sell), free diversification, free holding period, free investment volume, free off-times, free to choose the best broker, free strategy development, free to use any order type and stop loss distance etc.