Advanced volume trading

I'm in the middle of editing the front page of this thread (IDEAS/SUGGESTION the thread design/texts etc is very WELCOME), so traders (who are interested) can follow progress more easily without going through all the chat. Everything can be seen on the mfxb reportlink, trades, history etc.. Nothing to hide, (no pressure Lekkim haha
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Also maybe some of you other active traders can make a trade report and I'll share it in the thread (and it's no competition, but we can compete if we want and roast each other in a friendly way )

If any volumer want to share results, feel free to send report link or screenshots, all volume information is valuable in this thread Also, one trader might be testing something another trader has experience with, thereby it would be great to share, help each other in the right direction, and point out faults to save our fellow volumers time

Page 11 of this thread is the best page so far, happy for your support
Ops, it's over midnight, trades cumming soon let's goooo
PS: You are allowed to ask me anything either here in the thread or by private message.. I'm fairly honest about my background and stuff, feel free, also u can share yours. (Also I haven't and won't be deleting posts, it's for pussies and people who are scared not to stand by their fuckups. If I delete a post it will be the latest, and within 10min usually because of a spelling mistake or something added) Here in the thread we are genuine/candid in our results, please challenge/critic if you find it not trustworthy, then we'll try to correct it. (Myfxbook is a good provider of transparent reports and gives a good overview, that's why I use that, if you know other sites u can recommend, let me know

Fellow traders, I'm just brainstorming here!..
(Brainstorming is always welcome, doesn't matter how crazy it seems, as long as it's volume trading related) I've used hundreds of hours closing my eyes and thinking out of the box on how to analyze and backtest different both known, and custom volume theories and strategies. Once my mind gets focused on fx trading and these thread ideas (some good some obv bad also maybe, hehe) I will share my ideas about both trading and non-trading.

Be creative, fellas 'Holy Grail' might be in those 'extraordinary/weird thoughts (in normies view at least lol).. Maybe moon can be achieved by ourselves, but having a great community definitely helps our purpose Memes and fun is more than welcome here (
It's a crazy time we're going through, but just focus on your priorities and get stronger out on the other side, peace)

I imagine you've guys also have been testing at least 100+ indicators, EA's, strategies, get rich quick bs..

It all shaped us into what we are today. Once we found out that the biggest potential lays in volume, it's a gamechanger, or it was for me at least I've reseached forex for at least 10 years, but last 4 years it's been solely focussed on volume on fxmarket(and other markets) Volume is volume. Works the same in all larger global markets.

If you are a new forex trader... Damn.. I don't even know where to begin, bc in our business, it's kinda complicated to teach our new kammeraten our mistakes and advices. Emotions plays such a big role, it's kinda like each trader NEED to make all the mistakes HIMSELF first, to really understand the market and begin to focus in on the right way and trying to perfect in and make a killin'..

Lol I should make all this text into 'Confessions of a passionate or burned out trader / There's a reason why they say the real traders don't last longer than till 30yo I will calm down the talk soon and start trading, just hard not so share this with you guys, geez it's like I know some of you personally... Us analysts/traders can go pretty much 'alone' with our passion.. 'Alone' in that sense, that it still remains a niche business in the overall population.. Haha damn, if they just knew, huh

GO GREEN PAPS

Detector IMO that is that correct usage of volume in any market = activity

and remember a market will not go up and stay up on sustained high volume .. it cannot by definition as it contains selling within the wide range up bars that close on the highs ..

look for the low volume testing and down bars for the accumulation and signs of strength

I want to transfer all my trading experience to all traders, aha (Don't want traders to experience the pain of all my faults, but it will harden and learn you about a ruthless market)

We get hurt a lot, but we got balls of steel for trying, respect for that. I know the sleepless night, the rejections of social arrangement because our fire inside rather want to look at chart 'Normies' don't get it.... primarily because most people have no 'real' idea about the financial system in general, no knowledge about central banks, fundamentals, technicals, indicators, volume, even FX in general.. Maybe we are lucky to meet a person who knows what a 'stock/share' is because it's in the person's pension fund We are a rare very ambitous group of people, hands down It doens't make us better in any way, we've just focused on a 'niche' in the view of society, but imo that's what it takes to really make it. You basicly need to dedicate your life to it, that way you can reach your maximum potential and be an expert about one job/business/industry. Sometimes it would be easier to be interested in more commen job types.. I've tried.. But when I went to manual labour job, I just felt like I was wasting my potential, I sat up all night analysing charts to early morning when sun went up, haha I think most of you tried that sereval times and I SALUTE YOU are that, lol

* The feeling inside when you get margin called... Well, it gets easier, but it still hurts every time.. Wheater it's because of the money lost, a project we thought was gold, but wasn't or both, ehe Dissapintments and hurts our Pride. But we rise again and login to FF! That's called dedication and guts!! respect all.. I can proudly say, I have been blowing accounts for a decade and it made me a muuuuuch better trader.. Just start with small amounts, but real acc is good for discipline, we tend to take it more seriously (no shit sherlock lekkim) People don't understand us.. They will say things like 'get a 'real' (wageslave) job, 'don't risk it' 'You are not that smart if it was grail someone would have discovered it' 'Isn't it time to stop your hobby' 'Do you have a gambling problem' etc The life I want and dream about simply is unlikely to be achieved by a 'normal' manual labour, our best asset is our brain and knowledge on how the world works (money basically)

Taking risks is essential if you want to move you you want to go (your dreams) it takes money in this rather disgusting society. If you are broke, ofc you leverage the shit out of your account, who can justify using your whole day to go after 1% gain on a 100usd acc? you know what I mean.. But it also increases the chance of blowing it all.. Oh, the struggle of not being wealthy lol ... I've got a bachelor's degree in economics and financial management, I even tho I found it all interesting (love numbers, not money, but freedom) I was also quite disgusted over how unfair the system is. It's kinda rigged to make the rich richer, and it's really hard for 'low and middle' class to make that first 100-200k, then it will get easier.. I once made a lot of trading, blew it.

I believe this volume theory got huge potential (totally different league from all other (in hindsight, amateur methods) i've been working on before. This is my opinion. All other indications, speculations, theories, politics in trading, fundamentals is OFF for me..(Need to discard distraction like that, even tho i sometimes still will follow up on those topics) Only focusing on volume, trying to opt out of all other distractions. Basic mathematics and statistics of financial markets haven't really changed since I was a kid.. Only the technology changed. So we learned the basics, now we chose the important direction of our hard work looking and analyzing thousands of charts and indicators...

(Fun fact, I have been on FF in like forever haha, I was here earlier with other alias.. I know time here gives credibility.. But I hope by sharing all this, you will get to know me and my background some more, and hopefully at least don't think I try to scam anyone.. I will not be asking for funding, but I ofc accept if people gets interested. I've have many doubts about sharing all this to FF, because of the fear of my project 'being stolen or copied, would be a bummer when I've used years and a lot of money. THAT'S WHY I DON'T SHARE EVERYTHING, I give clues, some charts, analysic I believe to be valueable, but I'm hesitate will full disclousre. Now you know why. Also, I still believe what I share is valuable for other traders no matter what. I've learned so much just be reading threads around the internet. It hit me pretty hard with the demo tilt, it hits my pride.. Because it's my greatest asset, my knowledge about the economy, markets etc.. So if I will fail again, just know, that it does not matter how disappointed you are, it will be triple for me..

Grail search has been my main focus for many years (Idk if you would call it an addicton or being ambitious/passionate, I would say passionate, haters and normies would say we are trying to beat the casino, but they don't know the potentialt of a trillion dollar market. (even above women sometimes, haha I'm like a trading fanatic, hope it will pay out someday Hard work, focus and hope, which is THE VOLUME!!

Thanks for listening, hope you got just a little out of it, maybe some thought growing in your mind already) post here if you have similar experiences or can relate in some way to all the above posts Consider leaving a like if you somehow enjoyed some of my anecdotes/history Find an edge strategy and perfect it, but be sure it's a winner, otherwise you can work yourself into a dead end in methods, I've done that for a few times, be aware, be like a machine, do the work, think, hopefully in the end, we will all profit from our experience and knowledge

SE, yes agree, it's a crude way hiding both sides, we can only decipher by price movement, even then it can allude us, while Lekkim is running his tests I would like to digress, would you agree we can measure volume and speed together, at a given time frame in comparison to a set limit/bar as I've shown, on the same hourly chart, volume that passed the bar had to be quicker within the same time.. does that make sense?

Lekkim, pretty much summed up many there, I've just deleted many lines of text about "me" after typing for what seems an age, but this is your quest that we're all happy to cheer you on and be a part of, I see in you post your determination, mine and most others too, I need say no more, lets flog this out,D

Detector .. Grab a look at Bill Williams Trading Chaos and in particular The Wise Man metaphor he uses .

This will describe the speed of movement of the market in terms of acceleration and momentum.

In my considerable experience with this the description is spot on as to how markets really work. Think multiple derivatives of price. We start with volume the 1st derivative and then accumulation and distribution as the later thing that changes as an an ultimate prelude to price which is the 4th derivative.

Expressed another way ; the first change is always volume then it flows onto price through momentum and the acceleration of the momentum.

It is deep but that is the process of all market movement; understand the volume construct first and then it all flows into price from there

HTH

Nice one
Rather than wing it, will do as you have suggested, but leave you with one of, if not the best phrases I've ever read by a FF member,

" The market rises to find sellers and falls to find buyers"

For the record, just bought the book and arriving soon, D

Good

Supply = selling and Demand = buying ; accumulation and distribution which leads into the classic Wyckoff structures

Put Bill Williams Wise Man structures matched up with classic Wyckoff and Tom Williams later VSA work and you have a very powerful truth about markets

That's how all markets work, very demonstrable

You sound a lot like me. However, I'm only about 17 months old in Forex trading. I have been burning money as well, "investing" in painful experience with a live account until over a month ago when everything seemed to fall in place. Now I do mostly scalping. Always waiting for a relatively safe opportunity, then being content with the results until the next safe opportunity shows up. It works great somehow! My battle was always with emotional discipline. FOMO and seeking for holy grails on Forex is an absolute killer. I have given that up. Now look where I'm at!! Check my Trade Explorer. I actually made 70% ROI in 26 trading days since December 7, 2020. 25 winning days/1 losing day. I still feel exactly the same like on day 1. Nothing to gain, nothing to lose. Take it 1 trade at a time, 1 day at a time, reset, start over. Repeat. It works somehow...

LEKKIM'S NIGHTLY THOUGHTS, STORIES, TIPS, AND RECOMMENDATIONS (ESPECIALLY FOR YOUNGER TRADERS), ABOUT TRYING TO PLAN YOUR LIFE TO MAKE IT IN THE MARKETS- INCLUDING ANALYTIC APPROACH ON THE TOPICS OF TRADING AND HOW IT AFFECTS YOUR LIFE (GOOD AND BAD) on trading and life I DARE YOU THAT YOU ALL CAN RELATE TO SOMETHING IN THIS POST, I KNOW U TRADERS, HEHE )

(Tried to made entertaining for other traders and hopefully a bit fun as well (a lot of trader language and self-irony and roasting of bank sector etc, this is an honest text written in the middle of the night in Denmark, wanting to share this before I start trading the rest of the week, then I will not have the time/or would not prioritize FF, since I'm performing best if all my concentration is on the live trading (and real this time, so no time to fck around, as they say, hehe)

(INCLUDES SELF-IRONY, RAGE, ROASTING OF BANKING SYSTEM AND OPINIONS ABOUT EDUCATION, WORK AND TIME) It's like a quick summary of some (also personal factors of being a trader) my trading researching throughout time, I try in this post to give some tips and help other traders put their trading life in perspective, maybe start thinking about it with new ideas, what to go for, what to avoid. I might exaggerate some statements/opinions to prove my points, for clearer understanding for the readers (and hopefully a giggle)
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I KNOW THIS IS A LONG POST, BUT GIVE IT A TRY, ITS AN HONEST TEXT ABOUT MY THOUGHT ON LIFE IN REGARDS TO TRADING
I get to tell my story, you skip it, get entertained or learn something/or seed thought in your trading mind that can help your trading progress) give it a try

This is a rather short article/story about my life in regards to the trading aspects, been rather fun for me to remember all that tonight, I'm almost nostalgic (All of this haven't been read through, thought about in regards to collum organization/design, placement of sentences etc. So take it as it is, it all almost flew out of my head and into FF though my earthy fingers abusing the keyboard for half an hour or a full, idk lost track of time because I was focused on the 'article'.

From one trader to another, here are a telling of a rather humble life trading experiences of a medium-aged Trader named Lekkim from Denmark (Though if Grail is sensed, he can sometimes turn into a 'Global Worldwide can-do-it-all guy and seems a bit arrogant, it depends on the confidence in his life work. Actually, all of my fx testings really affects my life and mood, alright let's goooo: PS I've myself belives in everything I state here, my opinion only. But it is also tried to be written in an entertaining and sometimes hopefully, funny way

Tonights thought - by an overactive at night, volume trader with occasional 'greatness madness' aha I admit it, guys you need to try to tear my project apart, to make me calm down to earth again.. or maybe if I blow it again, that sure put me down for a few days.. Ah, we all know the rollercoaster of the markets. For me personally, I really believe I've got something that potentially could be of great value and moneymaker. What I usually struggle with, it trading discipline and to concentrate on fixed trading rules over a long time without taking trades that vary from that and so on. Let's go here are the nightly thought of a danish medium-aged trader:
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Why don't most 'normal' people don't get our drive and urge to succeed in this, in society's view, niche business?

First off, let me tell you... The most important thing of all, to learn about money and the financial system, is learning the origins of money, difference of money, central banking, interest, money supply etc. Because once you find out, that basically, what you've thought was a fair democratic world where it's all fair economically and nobody have unfair advantages, control or power, is debunked quickly. Let me be very clear. The whole idea about our modern monetary system is grossly unfair, unequal and doomed to fail at some point (5 years, 50 years, 500 years? who knows) but when you find out, that all monetary and fiscal problems have been fixed by increasing the money supply, all the time, for almost a century. Also read about Keynes, basics of QE and gov economics stimulus, kinda that road the whole world have been heading and are heading even in more accelarated pace against. Do a quick search about history of hyperinflation. Once you start following the money, it mostly leads towards a rather small group of very powerful individuals who control most of the larger/economic global decisions made ever since you were born. When you found out the REAL VALUE OF MONEY, which in most cases is less that we've been indoctrinated which throughout our life, so start seeing life in a different view, or at least I did... I asked myself, why would I sell out half my life in time, for a piece of paper or numbers on a screen? Then you analyze it which lead you towards human behavior and psychology (also important to know the basics in trading) and so on, so on..

Imo, to really shine in trading, you need to have some awareness or best, knowledge about the most important going on in our world, and then you connect all the dots at last.. That's how I recommend you to research economical understanding of both macro, micro, investments, interest, creation of money etc. Good luck out there to the new guys, hope your brain is ready to take in alot of new information, cause it truly can be mentally exhausting, because some of the topics are really advanced/complicated (they are intented to be that way, because it's best for us 'peasants', to be unaware of where control and power lays. It's kinda like the same as that one trader guy, who makes a mt4 template so full of indicators, that no one can gets an overview of it and then he replies: 'It's out of your league', like trying to lay out so many posibilities of truth that ones mind simple cannot be sure whats right and wrong... Basic money creation is simple when you know how it works, but getting to know it, is going to be really complicated (on purpose) to confuse us or keep us in the dark, cuz hey, if you have power, why would you want your competitors to know how you manage to do it etc.... Read, read, read, I advise to read on the internet. Books are a bit to censored and biased for my taste.. I explore the internet, there's alot of garbage of fake information, but it's also where the true gems are hidden, somewhere, beneath the mainstream censoring. Good hunt out there, gents
An example of 'normies' currency knowledge here in Denmark.. They have no idea of rates in comparison with other currencies, also (which might in an investment point of view is the most important) they don't even know, that our currency here in Denmark is the 'Krone', but it's by law correlated to the Euro. It must follow within a 2,25% range of the Euro.. So in trader-talk, that means that we basically have Euro in Denmark if you look at the price/valuation of it only..

I was an intern in a bank for a short period of time (due to my education at the time) and it was full of disappointments, tbh Even so many years later, when I encounter with the bank, I just feel my potential revive. I even once was a client in a bank, and my personal advisor had NO MARKET INSIGHT at all (due to my a bit arrogant confident view hah,), then they've sent me to their 'top man' in the 'investment' area of the bank, those guys earning millions.. I was greatly disappointed to say the least.. (I'm not grilling bank employees, I'm just stating my view from experience) He knew what stocks to recommend (probably got an internal list in the bank on what to get most commission on) and then a lot of knowledge about loans, mortgages, budgets, real estate and a lot of info about small software things who doesn't really matter, like developing online bank to clients and use time on marketing/design etc.

So, all of our (in hindsight, rather naive thoughts) about how easy it would be to MAKE BANKS$ on: recommending/analyzing/consulting/trading/banking, is in reality, well yea, like the movie.. Not a lie, but something overhyped, glorified to be something it ain't (at least not anymore, it was 'easier' to make money in trading in the 80's and 90's no doubt. But the pure TRADING part of the bank is nowhere to be seen!! Those guys don't even trade for the banks' money anymore, wow such pussies, I mean, c'mon? (Biden reference haha) So most of what they do, it advises over and over again about safe boring investments, no passion or drive to find 'the gem' to make both client and banker euphoric and start the light inside, just good old boring manipulative, selling.... No, just sit in a suit to boost your halo effect about your skills, while calling customers all day about they are in the red in their accounts and get angry responses all day long.. Not really what we all wished for, right?? Idk how it is elsewhere, but I imagine it kinda the same..

The first way into a bank in Denmark is by having, preferably business college instead of a normal one, and then some degree in finance/economics, preferably a bachelor. or more THEN there is so much demand for those jobs and so little supply, that you have to be top grades, top looks, connection etc.. to get the job.. And then the first 2-3 years is basic training at the counter and answering telephones.. What a fcking joke.. I know that there are extraordinary stories about some talent that rose quickly in the hierarchy of banks but mostly is so rare. I want to make an extraordinary return (if possible) not spending my whole day going through risk protocols that takes forever, before I'm even allowed to say anything investment-related... Idk if this also occurs outside EU, but it's ridiculous.. Ofc it's made to protect the costumers from taking risk on a product they don't fully understand, and in that sense, I agree, but from a TRADERS perspective, it's like being in chains Burst out your excitement for a stock recommendation to Mr and Ms normal just arriving at the meeting, and you might get fired.

Not even to talk about the constant increase in administration for all. Gov, corps, and privates.. I want to go to work and go through charts, balance sheets all day, maybe including the night where I fill my body with shit food and drinks, because my passion is greater than my concern for my own health lol We have to make sacrifices if we want to achieve the extraordinary.. I think that it's worth it because if we can retire earlier, it would overall have been better for our health compared to hard psychical labor all life long etc. I want to be able to show the CEO of the bank my amazing analysis next morning, which will blow his mind and set me directly to the top investment sector of the organization so I can get off by the extreme pressure from rich people, expecting me to perform.. And perform I will and get rewarded.. THAT'S HOW I WANT IT TO BE??? YOU FEEL ME? haha dreams man..

Aaand the banks don't even recognize PRECIOUS METALS AND CRYPTO as money (Let's all laugh at that in the near future), so today's banks have totally killed the trading spirit, there is no money in it anymore in terms of spread/costs/commission, most even amateur traders trade online by themself now.. So only trader job left in the bank industry would be the smart traders that consistently can make the bank money year by year.. But but, those guys MUST EXIST, RIGHT? NO, go check out big cooperate annual reports of the big banks, they can't even manage to turn a yearly profit on forex speculation Obviously they make money by traders using their products and stuff, but the essence of the talented, very clever hardworking, trader that makes money to the bank BY THE SAME GROUNDRULES AS US, which is by going into the currency markets with the goal of making a profit... Think about that, even with all the inside information you have at a bank AND YOU STILL CAN'T TURN A YEARLY PROFIT? Those 'not fantastic' traders, probably made at least 150-250k usd a year.

So basically laws of capitalism made the job disappear because nobody could 'WIN AT IT' .. Let that sink in for a moment, the job nobody in the bank could manage to be successful at, is basically what we all here on FF are trying to do... So yeah, it's a big challenge and we all need to work hard, no free lunches or handouts.. Also, that's probably why, traders who are certain of incoming success with their development, can tend to back out about sharing it.. Because the ones who FIND THOSE EDGES basically are smarter than the bank at making money on forex, and ofc a small edge in a TRILLION DOLLAR MARKET, got the potential to make anyone very rich. That's my thought on some of the behavior (including my own) I've experienced here on FF as well. That's also why I some time ago mention a potential trade in the long future.. Danish Krone is much more valuable than Euro in general, most economic difficulties are in the south of Europe, here in the north we are net supporters (we give more to the EU than we receive)

Anyways, maybe someday (there was actually some years ago a big pressure on this differ band/peg between the currencies that our national banks had to intervene. So our thought goes back to the CHF situation where a kinda similar deal of fixed pricing was abandoned. If differences in economics continue to rise in Europe, we might, one day, see that Denmark and our national bank to give up this peg.. Simple because all logical sense would conclude that the Krone is more valuable. My five cents on a potential opportunity, possibly 5-20 years into the future, but it can be a huge one, hehe PS: I'm brainstorming, so I don't want to waste time on correcting grammar too much, so bear with me, my native tongue is danish, not English.. But I've most of my life searched and read English, also traveled some faraway places/adventures (it's interesting imo to learn about people, all kinds of people, whether you agree or not, you have to get to know them to understand them..

The same could be said about the monetary/fiscal policies of our countries and etc, also study history, without correct (and yes, most history kids those days gets indoctrinated with, it mostly comfortable lies) historical awareness in the world, it can be hard to put the puzzle together, anyways, English always comes in handy if you one day want to travel outside your home nation. If you are fluent in English you can get by anywhere, socially/cultural/communation-wise. 'Always look at both sides of the coin before judging/making a decision/taking a stand', imo


Resume/conclusions/more thoughts about this post:

No 1 - Bank sector career will most likely disappoint most Traders /Passion in your interest /Dreams and possibilities/ normies will not understand you:

Most people will not understand your career interest/choice, but it's okay.. I understand people who settle/contempt with a stable, low energy, low responsibility, low risk job, cause it makes them satisfied and calm (note: I would such at most 'normal jobs' so kudos to the ppl skilled in those also ofc), unlike traders who are nerve wrecks all week long, and then trying to get back to normal in the weekends, haha.. Like, when you've been asked something like: Hey man, you wanna go out, drinks beers and try to get late with easy girls without talents, interest, skills?? You just know that you have to mentally adjust your state of mind, if you want to have a good time. So instead of saying: Did you see the GU tank yesterday before market close, Billy?!', then if you want to get better along with normies, say stuff like: Oh yeah, that dumb series on tv or netflix is so inspiring' (I have a hard time sitting through a whole episode of anything mainstream haha, sometimes it seems like entertainment for the masses, not to educate to masses. ..or 'Yeah man, tv tells me orange man is bad, so I think that too know, its so nice not to have to think a critical thought' Haha, I think it's 'job damage' from all the data we've looked at.. We are harder to try to fuck with or manipulate. :i

Because numbers are not up for discussion, but the whole society, norms, rules, behavior is.. So it¨s not always fun, not to be able to lay your analytic brain away. If i go to the movies, (Most movies are imo manipulative garbage, that pushes some agendas on viewers to try to give them opinions, mostly subconscious. So instead of relaxing with my friend or a girl and just dumb my self down, and laugh like normal people when a guy in the movie slips on a banana peel, I watch for hidden messages, (probably from searches the edges always, thinking outside the box etc.) So i think like, hmm, that didn't make sense what they just said, doesn't add up to reality, statistics, law of nature, religion or even logic. They can't even make movies realistic anymore. It's fcking 2021, make a movie where the plot could actually happen to people and don't overdramatize fighting scenes, to make them fly back when they get hit, it's unrealistic and it pisses off us data analytics, hehe.. It's like I've trained by brain to notice deeper meaning/message/impact on us exposed to it etc.

I look for the edges, like i walk in the city, looking at a business'.. Thinking about how I would do it, like, hmm if that store changed their logo and sign and made a more aggressive marketing strategy where they tried to undercut the market leader with borrowed money, if might could be bought up by the big fish' or something like that lol, you guys know what I mean Going outside the mainstream is the only way to really make it (or end broke ofc, there are risks, but who want to live a sub mediocre life, all life long? Risk is needed, unfortunately, especially for the not so fortunate people in regards to money and wealth and status. Some people know everything about fruits, and I don't.. I like when people are extremely well taught on one specific topic because u can feel their passion, and passion is needed if you REALLY want to be good at something, apply's to most endeavors. Also, the trading world we thought existed, don't. So work your submissive ass off for 15 years in big banks, and you might get a chance to play with the big boys and interbank, but most likely you will not get satisfied with your trading related interests in a bank. And there isn't really any medium or smaller sized business' who are focused on trading only either, so... You might not want to hear it, but from my experience and opinion, best chances are to be 'very nerdy'/dedicated to try creating our own job. A job, in which if we are successful, will give us freedom like we have not experienced before. The freedom of making your living from a laptop... That laptop could be in Denmark with its owner, or in the Maldives on the beach, sipping beer, looking at your women while making a month 'wageslave' income in an afternoon on the GU buy trade you made earlier.. I mean, cmon? (again haha) Isn't that what we all dream and thrives for?

Another lesson of this post: 2 - DKK (Danish Krone is, imo, very undervalued compared to the Euro, might want to have a finger on the pulse regarding monetary politics and central banks, mostly the Danish, they will send out press about the pressure on the currency many times each year. 2- Learn to be fluent in English (focus on it if you are still studying, the older we get, it will get a little harder to learn a new foreign language, also, there are so many useless subjects in education in general, like how to cook dinner (duh, that's why I get a GF) , sewing machines for clothing, animal biology etc, not catching my interest for sure, focus right, gents

After you're good in English, now the WHOLE WORLD is a potential business opportunity.. Often when I'm on vacation, I like to explore the market in the country, looking for profit-making opportunities, how to tackle cultural differences if starting a business and etc.. Kind of like a 'work injury' haha, I take my interest and open-minded, opportunist mindset with me (Or at least I try), so after you master English fully, you can transit, travel or stay almost anywhere in the world and be able to communicate properly.

Alright, I just wrote this, I just remember it and wanted to write a quick 'mini-analysis' on those two and give my advice to the youth or new traders My trading brain is on fire rn, I will finish this up and get some trading going, I will continue this later, I like to share it because I KNOW that if any should relate, it would be you guys I love trading man, even though it's so hard to predict right continually. Never stop believing fellow traders, we might be close to success, we might be far, but we have the hope, and that drives us. Use it and use it wisely The importance of first, finding out what's important/right/your pursue/purpose, and then analyzing your priorities in your life, so try to set aside your time, money and energy towards doing little things each day, that is 'in order' of your bigger plan.

Like for me, I don't like it, but I need to go shower, make food, shop groceries, wash my clothes, do administration work like answering email or go to an event you've agreed to while tipsy two months ago, but when the day comes it's the day of 'unemployments numbers' and you've much rather sit alone in front of your screen, energized by caffeine while blasting motivational music in the background But, you went, cause you are a nice person and you actually really care about your friends.. But to achieve your goals, you sometimes have to prioritize. If I get caught up on an interesting idea that I now backtest in marketscope, investing,metatrader etc and it's getting late like I need to go sleep now or my day tomorrow will be ruined.. I somehow still chooses to continue to test, because I don't want to lose that 'drive' and 'mental state' i'm in while researching. It's like a 'traders-trance', for me, it becomes the world and I forget about worrying about everything bad going on in our sometimes, strange, unexplainable, unlogical world. I really like it..

In my age now, I've just recently accepted, that the markets have become a part of who i am. I tried taking a break throughout the whole of 2020.. I tried to be 'normal' tried not to think about the numbers money printed in QE in Japan and it's effect on market open and bla bla I TRIED to enjoy normies stuff like, taking a walk, drinking and eating at a cafe with loved ones, etc. Ofc I like to spend time with the people I like and love, but it's rare that my burning passion for talking about the 'bigger questions' in lifelike, money, power, control, manipulation, politics, economy, state of human minds, if our society could be run better, and how and all that.. Why do I want to know how everything works?

I'm not sure, I really just wrote this and thinking about it rn, I will rather candid just continue tapping my fingers on the keyboard and try to explain my mind and thoughts.. Btw I REALLY VALUE HONESTY AND LOYALTY. Those qualities are, imo, MORE IMPORTANT than getting rich... Because you have your whole life to become rich, it you make it your goals and you are fairly gifted in regards to talents, skills etc.. You should be able to make it happen. Ofc just not fast enough, since technology and the seeks for instant pleasure have made us all incredible IMPATIENCE. WE WANT IT NOW!!! NOT NEXT YEAR, JESUS, I MIGHT BE DEAD OR THE WORLD COLLAPSED (In regard to that last sentence, is also one of the main reasons for ppl making bad impulse investment decisions. Made on impatience, greed and FOMO. Anyways, back to why honesty and loyalty is worth more, its because...

The older I get, the more I find out, that if you REALLY want to make a difference in this world, you simply (in most cases) can't do it alone. A group of people standing/working for the same would always (if equally smart) overtime put the one individual out of business... Also political, organizations are if you have assets involving many aspects you need people who you can trust, because of trust in the possible most important factor after price.. So making people work your plan and support it, and be loyal to that, it's worth alot of money. Because we only have limited time each day and a third is used on sleep and plain 'life maintenance, so you don't fall behind. A third is uses (normally) for work and then you will sit in traffic for a few hours, not to talk about the growing responsibility of adults (tend to increase with age) GF, wife, kids, family needs, keeping up with your friends etc..

You would might have a few hours for FX TRADING in the weekend, but most likely you will never succeed in it, because IT TAKES THAT YOU DEDICATE YOUR LIFE TO IT, UNDERSTAND FRIENDS? A hard decision and most of the people in your network will think you are out of your goddamn mind for doing something so 'going against the stream of fish' 'taking to big of a risk' 'why don't you just get a safe public job where you can rest and not think about work when u get home? TIME is underrated, you cannot be great in a field of knowledge if you don't have the time to put in. Simple. All about priorities.

Not even to talk about how much work (both starting the company, but also administrative, with taxes stuff.. So, society, especially here in Denmark, where even tho we are a nation of inventors (like that's where we got our wealth from, large private global corps from danish ideas, we don't really have any natural resources, only a little north sea old (Norway got our oil friend almost for free, because of a politician in power (a bloody red socialist/communist) ofc, got manipulated with booze and women and signed a VERUY attractive deal for Norway like 30-40 years ago, alright that was a side note, hehe.. But I like to share those trading related anecdotes with you, I'm almost sure you've experienced some of all I've written in this post, yourself, at some point. Please comment if you liked any of what I've posted these last couple of hours and please add your own different, funny, learning experiences with us all. I almost lost track of time, took me a long time to write all this, but I enjoyed it. Alright, enough of texting, back to charts and start trading

Many will give up along the way (understandable) but I just know, that one/some of us out there reading this, will make it.
Cheers for a bright future We will continue to improve ourselves until we succeed, we need to try not allowing doubt and fear to control in our pursuit of the mysterious, life-changing: 'Grail' We'll get it, someday
/ Peace out - Best wishes, Lekkim

I just remembered, that some of you advised me to tone down the meme and comedy a bit, so I will.. I might make a 'funny thread then' to seperate serious informative knowledge from humor (deleted new post with photomeme with self irony meme about me writing shortstories at night, well I'm both crazy and very dedicated I guess, haha... Allright, some texts I put together above, might be my longest post on FF ever, hope it makes sense to you
My FF profile have always stated: 'Self-proclaimed comedian, so I can't help it'

Back to try mastering the live market and make some of that dough, even though we have much fun chatting here in the thread, hehe, good day to all and GL! Also thanks for messages and support, I get happy for that, because even though I haven't proven myself, you still sense my potential due to my research on it.. Thanks for believing in me and I hope all my work will pay off someday (hopefully already with this live acc, we'll see)

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The older I get, the more I find out, that if you REALLY want to make a difference in this world, you simply (in most cases) can't do it alone. A group of people standing/working for the same would always (if equally smart) overtime put the one individual out of business... Also political, organizations are if you have assets involving many aspects you need people who you can trust, because of trust in the possible most important factor after price.. So making people work your plan and support it, and be loyal to that, it's worth alot of money.

Lekkim.... Thank you for pouring your heart out on to the paper literally. It was very longgggg.... was very interesting too. I've just highlighted on a point, which I felt was most thought provoking... and important. Having an inspired team.. can do magic in your endeavours. I have experienced it the past... when I had a business with a few very enthusiastic business partners, which we grew to really big levels... with many offices and many employees, then later after a few years... slowly closed out, when all of us had our attention diverted out... to our own individual things. We were young... and had a lot of money, a dangerous combination... lol... But nevertheless, it is a fact... a highly motivated bunch of smart people can take you to heights, which you may not have thought possible in the normal circumstances.

Many will give up along the way (understandable) but I just know, that one/some of us out there reading this, will make it. Cheers for a bright future We will continue to improve ourselves until we succeed, we need to try not allowing doubt and fear to control in our pursuit of the mysterious, life-changing: 'Grail' We'll get it, someday / Peace out - Best wishes, Lekkim[/quote

May be slow... or may be fast... but we certainly will keep working, until we find true edges that will make us good money from the markets!!! That's certain for sure...!!! Thank you for your initiative and support!!!

Not to be a soft soyboy (haha) or anything, but honestly it touches my heart a bit, to recieve support, faith, likes and compliments, sincerely Appreciated, makes me wanna move on with this thread, ty

I opened my mind, brain and heart and let it out, love me or hate me for it, hehe
That's me you will get to know if u follow this wheater u like it or not It's included in the 'package' my blunt opinions and thought. But I also do this to make other open up about their experiences.. I somehow have some kind og journalist in me, bc sometimes I can just write a lot and I have an opinion on everything.. Love me or hate me for that, I dont try to lick butt or piss people off Just being me

Advice on 'covid' isolation, more time own your own etc.
Try to embrace it, you might have time to go deep into a hobby or develop a new craft?
Think like a trading machine = more time, less humans = more time to win in the markets, stay positive if u can in world

Who wants to spend time with normies talking about cats, or when they will get vaccine or another fearmogering tactic or distracton they've falled for.. At least we are BASED. We know where the power is, and we're trying to get it. Not wasting time on entertainment for the masses or latest fake news on tv.

So FF is a good place to be in comparison, hehe Thrive to learn, if you can motivate yourself... so us here haven't given up just yet which is inspiraing.. Not feeling you are the only one, with this... Not obsession, but passion for our 'craft'

We've both know the huge potential if succesful in this, so we continue our dream even though we've failed XX/XXX times already, what else business would you do that? That's why, especially forex is also the hardest markets of the markets to master.. Continue guys We are like artists, with all our lines and charts.. Trading can be like art when it works

I've made some basic calculators in excel, but I lost them.
Now i'm in the making of doing them again... Margin calc, mm calc, matric (8 currencies index stats)..
All excel data from Tug of War is gone... I can trade without it, but it's gives better overview.. Might make em again tomorrow or fuck it, I will think about the importance of those fcking excel sheets, I just want to trade soon, ehe What I'm best at, I'm only semi in excel and developing in general tbh

Hi Lekkim.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us. Can you please share your strategy here? I followed your Myfxbook link in the 1st post is but couldn't find the strategy there. Thanks again...

Thanks for all the replies, I will get back and reply to them, it might just be immediately, maybe it can take a few days, but I will try to answer all. But be aware I'm busy with life and the trade experiment, I need to focus on trading the account today.
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A further response to the curiosity about my method: MY GOLDEN ADVICE, take it or leave it, a decade summed up - into Lekkims trader mind

To summarize my steps in my fx 'discoveries/failing forward/learnings' journey, then its ish: (I hope this can help traders choose focus or at least what to avoid, imo)

1. Learning economics and market

2. Being a noob testing MA, rsi and other rather useless, imo, indicators, thinking you figured it out. Getting scammed by your lack of knowledge losing money on indicators and rigged mql backtesting report claims etc.

3. Thinking the market is fair and rational. If you put in hard work and research, you can predict market either with technical indicators or fundamental news = WRONG

4. Get burned again, finding out most fundamental and news will move the market in an irrational way which makes no sense.. A classic to fck over retailers, it's proven brokers cheat, so why wouldnt the higher ups also to that?,
because they believe the market not to be manipulated and fake.

5. Trying to comprehend that world markets makes no sense and seems unpredictable and doesn't follow normal economic 'rules' or logic.

6. It takes some time to understand, that all you've ever traded, somehow is being either completely controlled by a monopoly of banks with the same owners, or being deliberately manipulated by those who can. So, if there is no real flowing market, who will be benefitting? The ones already owning most. Include that you only find out that central banks are PRIVATELY owned and not audited. Just this fact alone, should make a public outcry, but 90% of ppl, don't even know what a central bank is, so they get away with it. Making money out of thin air and loaning them out with interest... I mean, being in control of a central bank is the ultimate Grail, but unavailable for us ofc, we have to find our own morally legal way to make it. There are a few individuals, OWNING, central banks. Like literally sits on both the printing press and fake 0's. Imagine the corruption. It can demotivate anyone to think, that one person easily could transfer 1trillion to himself if he's part of ownership of the many many many central banks on the planet. Not to talk about insider trading also. Try following the money and some truths will appear about where the power lays, just saying.

7. So now you are a bit pissed over the bs going on, because all the economic books in school didn't teach you that..
Well, alot of thinking then.. If it's fake, then it must follow some kind of pattern or algorithm, making it possible to predict, right? Can't do that either.
8. Alright, then you notice the disclaimer of broker ads like : 75% of our clients lose money
Ah, ok makes sense.. 'the amateurs' are the ones paying the bill, since they are the easiest to manipulate, both with price, graphs and emotions.
9. So the market is fake. Seems unpredictable, technicals are useless, what to go after then? Well I started looking into why retail clients lose so much, and it's because of the above and then maybe, just maybe, because there is actually speculation going against this 'weaker group of players in the market.

10. So far I've found out, that all markets where the money supply increases like stock market, precious metals, oil, real estate etc.. = LONG OR WRONG, since they naturally follows the 'hidden' inflation/easing pumping new money into the system, ofc it will rise. Fed increases balance sheet to pump up the stocks and others. Therefore stock market is overvalued, but the rules of reality doesn't apply for a market, which is being saved every god damn time, a natural bear market is luring.

11. Basically we are a part of a huge monetary experiment. They can never again stop with the easing money policy now when it's all pumped up with depth. I got a sense, that's also why inflation haven't shown itself officially, because all the inflation went into the fake markets, right? It should all fall about in a free market. I feel sorry for the bears and xau holders throughout the years, because it makes sense what they are doing, but the market is not real, it's kinda crazy actually....

12. Allright, so now the brutal truths have to sink in. It's worse than you thought.. So now you have to adjust your thinking, if you want to beat it.
Only data that's close to real, is the volume. That's why I went down that road. I honestly believe technicals and price action is like casino, it's our human mind making patterns and convincing us, but the problem is, that technicals are based on price data and the price data is a joke, it makes no sense how price moves sometimes, let's be honest.

13. WHERE I'M AT NOW 2021: Volume data + the theory, that retail traders loses the most, made me dive into that. Because retail volume, shows you exactly how normal amateur traders think and trade if you analyze it enough over a long time, patterns emerge. There is also a correlation between seeing patterns and intelligence, so it might be a good thing you like charts, hehe.. Actually, trading is a lot about pattern recognition.. Maybe that's also why our brains start to see patterns in our everyday life. I went through all the ways possible I could think of on how to make trades based on the activity of the amateurs.. Long story short, it seems to be the best entries, when r volume either are extremely hype/bullish or fear/bearish, you wouldn't you manipulate a market to run over amateurs and make money, when you already have no morals? You need to think more critically, try thinking like a manipulator. Conclusion: that's what I'm trying to do in the coming days on acc, enter the market when amateurs positions are very one-sided.

Because, at that moment, when all Mr and Ms traders are one way, that's an indication of a marked change in direction, because they want those ppl's money, someone gotta pay for the bonuses right? I try to catch these moments even on an intraday level, but I use many data sources and data length/timeframes to filter out noise and whales and stuff.. That's how I believe, that it gives a good overview of overall retail activity and thereby, transparency to trade against them. I've used a few years testing ways to trade them, also collecting the most amount of credible data, I've tried so many ways and also third party services. Quality of volume data is important and it must not be lagging, if you want to daytrade. I really tried sharing alot of my journey, for you to understand my views, also giving you the opportunity to try to do the same, if you also believe in it, let me know what u think guys? Markets will always try to fuck with your sanity, cuz you can be right and spend 10.000 hours on it, just to see it moves irrational and fucks you over anyways... Thanks,

Resume of journey ^ important to read - what do you think? Does it make sense? Or am I working towards a dead-end or am I delusional?