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  • Jul 30, 2019 9:20am Jul 30, 2019 9:20am
  •  40PipsAlan
  • Joined Apr 2019 | Status: Member | 1,235 Posts
Quoting TheSpoof
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{quote} Well, there ya go. Here is a learning opportunity, folks. What did you learn? Why did you place a trade (I know why you did, but do you?) What are you NOT going to do going forward?
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Too scared on missing out.
Don't be a sheep and follow the herd. Work that grey matter you have between your ears and decide for yourself.
 
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  •  TheSpoof
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Quoting 40PipsAlan
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{quote} Too scared on missing out. Don't be a sheep and follow the herd. Work that grey matter you have between your ears and decide for yourself.
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Exactly. You let your emotions do the trading for you and it cost you - been there done that. You should be actively working towards placing your trades with utmost confidence and detachment. Stop doing what you know to be wrong. Trust that the system is sound, that we are not going to win every trade and we don't know the order of winning/losing trades. Sitting out of a trade for valid and logical reasons that you come up with is perfectly fine - not losing money is far better than not making money. It is OK to sit out every now and then...plenty of trade opportunities around the corner
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  • Jul 30, 2019 11:43am Jul 30, 2019 11:43am
  •  EstherYim
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Just went long on EURUSD. A tad risky since price is ranging right now, but ranges always break. 2R profit target just happens to coincide with the last support level that was broken and price often loves to retest those areas. We will see {image}
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In the same trade as you, Spoof. Just do what the indicators tell me to do, trading made simpler...
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  • Jul 30, 2019 11:47am Jul 30, 2019 11:47am
  •  EstherYim
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{quote} I sent a message to the original coder and he is too busy. You could ask in one of the free coding threads if it could be modified
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Thanks for helping out... will have to keep trying
 
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  • Jul 30, 2019 1:03pm Jul 30, 2019 1:03pm
  •  TheSpoof
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{quote} In the same trade as you, Spoof. Just do what the indicators tell me to do, trading made simpler... {image}
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Looks good. Price sure isn't doing much at the moment. What are the settings on your PSAR?
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  •  TheSpoof
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Quoting EstherYim
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{quote} Thanks for helping out... will have to keep trying
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Did you inquire in the platform tech section?
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  •  martbac
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{quote} Thanks for helping out... will have to keep trying
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Why don't you use the stochastics and RSI as per TMS(r) template? Thats what I am using.

Regards,

Mart.
 
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  • Jul 30, 2019 3:15pm Jul 30, 2019 3:15pm
  •  binnie
  • | Joined Dec 2010 | Status: invisible | 847 Posts | Online Now
Still holding the UJ - but reduced my profit target to previous strong Resistance . It's having trouble getting up there. Lowered stop similar so trade was still approx 1:2.
Entered AJ & looking good so far
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  •  TheSpoof
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USOUSD update. Just moved my stop based on the PSAR as price is nearing 1R in profit. This is now a risk free trade and I am hoping that price doesn't retrace back too deep into the level that has just broken, but at the end of the day price will do what it will do. I will continue to trail now based on the PSAR until TP is reached or stopped out. On a side note, now that this position is risk free, I will enter another position if we get a small retrace and a valid continuation set up. Oil can trend nicely when it wants to
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  •  TheSpoof
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Still holding the UJ - but reduced my profit target to previous strong Resistance . It's having trouble getting up there. Lowered stop similar so trade was still approx 1:2. Entered AJ & looking good so far {image} {image}
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AJ is looking good My thoughts on the UJ trade is to leave your original 2R in place as per your original trade idea. Don't mess with it after you've placed it. What if it does go up 2R? What you should be doing is sticking to your plan. If your plan is to trail a stop until TP is reached or the stop is taken out then stick to that. If your plan is to set and forget then take the loss if it happens and move on. Or bail on the trade for a small loss since it hasn't taken off like we expect these trades to do. Adjusting your trades after you have committed to them is not consistent trading and not trading with a good mindset. If you don't trade consistently then how on earth do you know what is working and what isn't? How do you know that it's the market messing you up but in fact it's you? Just something to contemplate.
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  •  binnie
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{quote} AJ is looking good My thoughts on the UJ trade is to leave your original 2R in place as per your original trade idea. Don't mess with it after you've placed it. What if it does go up 2R? What you should be doing is sticking to your plan. If your plan is to trail a stop until TP is reached or the stop is taken out then stick to that. If your plan is to set and forget then take the loss if it happens and move on. Or bail on the trade for a small loss since it hasn't taken off like we expect these trades to do. Adjusting...
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Cheers TS - thx for comments. Hindsight tells me that I woulda coulda shouda bailed for very small loss but I have never been too focussed on S & R in the past. I take your point onboard. "no more tinkering " LOL
 
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  •  TheSpoof
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{quote} Cheers TS - thx for comments. Hindsight tells me that I woulda coulda shouda bailed for very small loss but I have never been too focussed on S & R in the past. I take your point onboard. "no more tinkering " LOL
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tinkering will be our downfall. Man, I am guilty of rampant tinkering
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  • Jul 30, 2019 4:29pm Jul 30, 2019 4:29pm
  •  kofix11
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USOUSD update. Just moved my stop based on the PSAR as price is nearing 1R in profit. This is now a risk free trade and I am hoping that price doesn't retrace back too deep into the level that has just broken, but at the end of the day price will do what it will do. I will continue to trail now based on the PSAR until TP is reached or stopped out. On a side note, now that this position is risk free, I will enter another position if we get a small retrace and a valid continuation set up. Oil can trend nicely when it wants to {image}
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  • Jul 30, 2019 8:36pm Jul 30, 2019 8:36pm
  •  TheSpoof
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Hey folks...here is a video I just put up showing my thoughts behind how I choose the pairs I trade.

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  • Jul 30, 2019 8:55pm Jul 30, 2019 8:55pm
  •  Mercennary
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Hey folks...here is a video I just put up showing my thoughts behind how I choose the pairs I trade. https://youtu.be/6JfaWnlwjXA
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Hey mate, nice video as always, have you considered filtering by confluence with the htfs direction?


best regards
thinking outside the box
 
 
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  • Jul 30, 2019 9:13pm Jul 30, 2019 9:13pm
  •  temporal
  • | Joined Feb 2015 | Status: Member | 38 Posts
Got my 2R on AU from early this morning. Didn't think she would have another continuation in her, but that's what I get for thinking.
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  • Jul 30, 2019 9:13pm Jul 30, 2019 9:13pm
  •  TheSpoof
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{quote} Hey mate, nice video as always, have you considered filtering by confluence with the htfs direction? best regards
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No. I can see what the daily charts are doing by looking at the four hour charts. There are only six candles per day so I can see a couple weeks worth of price action on my charts. I believe the four hour charts create the price action you see on the dailies and the dailies create the price action you see on the weeklies, in other words I don't care what the weekly trend is doing - it's too far out for me. At the weekly level even retracements are completely trade-able on the four hour charts. I am really interested in catching swings that last 1-3 days and that is best seen and entered on the four hour charts. I have overlaid the daily version of all the indicators onto the four hour charts and by the time the four hour and dailies are all lined up the four hour is changing directions and I've missed several nice swings in the meantime. The four moves before the daily does. I haven't found any reliable filter that keeps me out of enough bad trades at the expense of missing out on good ones to make it worth an extra layer of complication. I believe the four hour charts can be traded in isolation. Just my observations of the charts
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  • Jul 30, 2019 9:15pm Jul 30, 2019 9:15pm
  •  TheSpoof
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Got my 2R on AU from early this morning. Didn't think she would have another continuation in her, but that's what I get for thinking. {image}
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Yup. Fantastic move. Glad you profited I stayed away for the very same reasons. Shows what we know, eh? I'm OK with being on the sidelines though. AUDUSD has been good to me over the last month
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  • Jul 30, 2019 10:43pm Jul 30, 2019 10:43pm
  •  carmelina
  • | Joined May 2019 | Status: Member | 76 Posts
Traded NZD/JPY on a demo account and went according to plan.
Next step I have to take the right lot size. I have a position size calculator and I think I will use it next time.
Thanks, TS. I appreciate your helpfulness.
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  • Jul 30, 2019 11:01pm Jul 30, 2019 11:01pm
  •  TheSpoof
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Traded NZD/JPY on a demo account and went according to plan. Next step I have to take the right lot size. I have a position size calculator and I think I will use it next time. Thanks, TS. I appreciate your helpfulness. {image}
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What as your RR on this? Looks like 1:1
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